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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 615044">I find these arguments inexplicable.I'll provide one more comment on this issue in the form of an analogy, which concedes the play calling was too conservative, which I in fact do not believe to be case.A guy is driving down the street after having a couple of beers and with the radio blaring,  He hit's a telephone pole at 20 miles per hour and his defective air bag ejects a metal projectile into his forehead, killing him at the scene.I would consider the loud radio and those beers to be the possible proximate causes of his death, since had those factors not been in play he might not have hit the pole in the first place.  However, the cause-in-fact for his death was the airbag projectile.  Had the airbag deployed properly, the incidence of death under those circumstances are miniscule.Should he have the radio playing loudly or should he have been driving after those beers?  Probably not.  Did it cause his death?  No, it did not.  The projectile was the cause.The Packer defense did not deploy properly.People like to recall games where an offense goes conservative or a defense goes prevent, and a lead and the game is lost.  However, in the preponderance of circumstance, even those less lopsided than this one, conservative late-game strategies with a healthy lead result in victory.</blockquote>

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