[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by offiss

Your kidding right?
How can anyone say giving an offensive opportunity to the opposing team is the right move?

No, I'm being sensible.

And what do you think you're doing by passing it on third down and throwing an incompleting pass? Or worse, throwing an INT that is returned for a TD. Yeah, tha'ts definitely better. :yeahright

Originally Posted by offiss

Did you watch the game?

What kind of stupid question is that?

[quote= offiss]
Did you see at that point they were pretty much doing whatever they wanted to us in the air?[\quote]


And giving the ball back to them with even more time on the clock would help this situation out how?

Originally Posted by offiss

Did you notice our big time defense isn't so big time with player's like Griffen and Taylor out?

What does that have to do with us running it on 3rd down?

Originally Posted by offiss

I can't figure out why anyone would say running there is the right call? We are horrible running the ball in short yardage situations, the right move is to go to your strength in that situation, what did running the ball accomplish? Nothing! A first down was needed other wise Tampa gets the ball back with enough time to go down the field regardless.

You're assuming that passing the ball would have been an automatic first down. You're also assuming that lining up 8 or 9 men the box only stops the run. You're assuming that Brunell is going to have enough time to get the pass to his receivers. You're not taking into account how fast the defensive ends for TB are. You don't think they'd be ready for a short pass to the flat? You're also not taking into consideration how we ran over top of Tampa's defense all day.

Originally Posted by offiss

If you think the defense is that great then why not take a chance at doing what we do best rolling out with a short passing game, if it fails let the defense bail us out? Either way the defense still has to make a stop.

That is the same arugment with running the ball. If we don't get the first down, we keep the clock rolling and we punt the ball away and let our defense bail us out. It's better to give an offense with an inexperienced quarterback less time on the clock to score a TD rather than to give him an extra minute dontcha think? It's foolish to think otherwise.

Originally Posted by offiss

Bottom line loser's leave the game up to chance, any time you run a series of play's on offense as we did you leave yourself open to the possibility of a big play from the opposition, Gibbs went into scared mode on that last series instead of attack mode. If we were up by 2 scores it's a different story.

So tell me again how long you have been coaching in the NFL and how many Super Bowl appearances and trophies you've won again? I think this is where you're question fits into the best.....did you even watch the game?

Originally Posted by Offiss

If we had a good short yardage running game I would have no problem with the call, but can anyone remember the last time we were able to run the ball when the defense knew it was coming?

Plenty of times this year...go back and watch the games.

Originally Posted by offiss

Relying on your defense in situations like that is a last resort, kind of like taking knee with time on the clock to rely on a 50 yd field goal, both should be relied upon only if all else fails.

This doesn't go along with what you just stated earlier. You said that we'd have to rely on our defense either way, so how can it be a last resort? Again, there is no way you can prove to me that passing the ball would have given us an automatic first down. I can certainly prove to you that as long as Portis holds onto the ball and doesn't go out of bounce, the clock continues to run regardless if we get the first down or not...and running the clock out when you're leading in the game is an obvious strategy that any sensible coach is going to want to do.