If he was expecting a low scoring affair from the team that outscored him by 20 at the start of the season he’s even dumber. The fact of the matter is bold coaches play to win, bad coaches play to not lose/ control the margin of defeat. And it is how you start, if they go for those 4th downs in the 1st quarter and only make 1 (league average on 4th and 1 is over 60%) that’s 7 points instead of 6 and they win the game. There’s a reason both the coaches that went for it on 4th Sunday are playing in the SB in two weeks and both the coaches that didn’t are playing golf.
‘Course the Hawks defense had absolutely nothing to do with holding the turnovers to 6 points... And it’s a given that they get into the end zone if McCarthy goes for it... Plenty of assumptions here.