While there's part of me that likes Kalani's willingness to pin back his ears and go for it on fourth downs, perhaps I have too many years of traditional football thinking in my head to like how often he does this. You can point to the analyses that show that football coaches at all levels should go for it on fourth down more often, but I keep thinking that this is a gamble that will bite him and our team at some point.

I'm sitting at my computer on Cougarboard at the same time I'm taking an online company-mandated educational training on identifying unconscious bias in our work interactions, so what I say next stems a bit from my current context. I wonder whether I am applying a subconscious racial stereotype to Kalani as being driven by emotion stemming from his Polynesian culture, and whether I might assume subconsciously that a white coach who makes exactly the same decisions he makes might be doing it more as a result of advanced statistical analysis that suggests that its a long-term statistically supported strategic decision. That's certainly possible and I think its a good thing to examine my assumptions.

As long as we're winning games I'm probably OK with him continuing to drop the hammer and go for it. Thoughts? I haven't been on CB much since the game so apologies if the fourth down thing has already been hit.