Pittsburgh Steelers HC Mike Tomlin doesn’t live in his fears, but he also doesn’t live in analytics. So while analytics bots might call him a coward, I’m sure he has other ideas about his decision to punt Sunday during a critical juncture of the game Sunday in Philadelphia. According to the Surrender Index, which purports to gauge how risk-averse decisions to punt are, the Steelers’ fourth-quarter punt was one of the most cowardly punts of the century.
With a little under 11 minutes to play in the fourth quarter, Tomlin’s Steelers punted on 4th and 7, trailing by 14, on the Eagles’ 46.