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Originally Posted by railcon56@comcast.net
See i agree here i hate that thing where he plays for the last possesion....damn that is rough i wanna see the skins go down swinging ... not go crazy but put someone away..so yeah scared to win....
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Did you see his press confrence where he was asked about the 4th and inches? He said he didn't go for it there because the defense was just locking down the raiders offense, and Gibbs was worried that if he didn't make a 4th and inches that he would give momentum to oakland, well that pretty much summned up this thread.
To me that's a major contradiction, if your defense is shutting a team down cold, shouldn't that allow you to have more confidence in taking a chance on 4th down? Especially at the oakland 40 yard line, how about taking the inititive and creating some momentum of our own by going out there and getting a first down in that situation? If you by chance don't make it then you have a defense by his own admission that had oakland locked down until that point. That statement say's it all, he would rather rely on the defense to stop a team than attack with the offense to win it, and that leaves the opposition within striking distance late in the game.
And it goes even deeper than that, we all know including Gibbs we are not getting a call from the ref's in a big situation regardless of the reasoning why, every week Gibbs spends who knows how much time putting together a highlight reel of the referee's greatest hits that they just happen to overlook, or flag us for something that never happened, and yet knowing this is going on on a regular basis he's not trying to put the dagger in teams any which way he can to avoid a bad call late in the game which probably will cost us the game as we have all become so accustomed to seeing.
That statement by Gibbs tells me he's coaching scared, I wish he would stop treating these games as life and death situations and lighten up a little and attack, take some chances, it's not war, people are not going to die if on occasion it doesn't work out.