Buffalo Rumblings · Sep 18, 2019
How often do teams take a knee to preserve a lead into halftime?
If the more than 600 comments on Matt Warren’s Five observations from the New York Giants game is to be believed, people have opinions about the decision by Sean McDermott to take a knee to close out the first half of the game. There’s reasonable arguments to be had on both sides of the fence but what do NFL coaches have to say about it? Or rather, what does the data say they lean toward?
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