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Did David pass this off as his own idea? Because a statistics professor at Berkeley wrote a paper a few years back that got a fair amount of press which basically argued the same thing and found that teams should go for it around midfield in 4th and short situations almost every time.

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Well I don't think he explicitly said that he was the first to think of it, but he didn't exactly include a works cited page either.