A missed additional-point helped seal the Patriots’ fate but this season even their formidable coach couldn’t drag a flawed team to the Super BowlHere is what the New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick told the NFL’s competition committee two years ago as he argued for the additional point attempt to be moved from the two-yard line to the 25:
“The PAT percentage has,in the final two decades, not gone under 98% and I want to say in the final nine years they’ve been over 99%. final year, or it was 99.6% or whatever it was. So we’re really talking about a non-competitive play. I can’t imagine the fans are excited about seeing a play thats 99% accurate.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com