There’s hardly anybody that can say they didn’t raise an eyebrow when the Raiders made the gutsy call to go for 2 trailing the Saints 33-34 with 47 seconds remaining.
ESPN decided to tweet out the Raiders’ probability of winning with a 2-point conversion to which Coach Del Rio tweeted back a snarky response.
That, my friends, is the reason the game must be played and we can’t count on statistical models in this crazy thing called sports. That display of confidence set the tone for the Raiders’ season.
