game & refs

[offiss]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

I'm with you 100% on this one. Early in the game someone in the chat room was bitching why did we pass on 3rd and 2 when Portis was running right through the Tampa D. And then when we run on 3rd and 2 the question is why didn't we pass?

What if they went for the pass and it was intercepted or Brunell got sacked and fumbled? That deep in your own territory, that late in the game, you have to play it safe. No matter how boring it is.

To bad gruden didn't play it safe, oh yea he won though.

Nonesense! Playing it safe is what cost us the game, playing it safe is only another word for playing scared, giving the ball back to tampa was the most unsafe call we could have made, what if we open up the offense like we did the entire game and make a first down? Maybe we win? Winners are not afraid to play to win, losers play not to lose.

With that kind of thinking we might as well take a knee in overtime.

I hope this finally wakes Gibbs up to the realazation that Portis is not a power back, and our line can't power run.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by offiss

To bad gruden didn't play it safe, oh yea he won though.

Are you talking about on that last TD drive, when the Bucs were down by a touchdown? Of course Gruden is not going to play it safe, he needs to go for the win. If he had the lead though you don't think he would have kept the ball on the ground?

[offiss]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Are you talking about on that last TD drive, when the Bucs were down by a touchdown? Of course Gruden is not going to play it safe, he needs to go for the win. If he had the lead though you don't think he would have kept the ball on the ground?

NOOOOOO, I am talking about going for a 2 point conversion for the win, and not playing it safe for a tie, you know like doing whatever you have to do within reason to not allow the game to be decieded by a coin flip in overtime, because at that point no one was stopping anyone, to bad Gibbs didn't realize that.

And for the second part of your question absolutly not, if his short yardage running game is as bad as ours, I say no, You do not rely on the weakest part of your offense in the most crucial part of the game, we are not so, so, on short yardage plays, we are dreadful, and yet there we are running the ball 3 downs in a row and going no where taking a whopping 1 minute off the clock, and this is not a first time issue, Gibbs has done it over and over since he's come back, our defense has bailed him out quite a few times, unfortunatly he should have taken into account we are without some key players on defense and couldn't risk giving the ball back to Tampa.

[SmootSmack]

Not to pin the loss on Frost, but I don't believe that Gibbs expected Frost to have a 35 yard pooch punt at the end of the game.

[redrock-skins]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Not to pin the loss on Frost, but I don't believe that Gibbs expected Frost to have a 35 yard pooch punt at the end of the game.

If Frost boots it further, then Tampa just marches down that much longer and leaves us less time to attempt to get in FG range.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by offiss

To bad gruden didn't play it safe, oh yea he won though.

Nonesense! Playing it safe is what cost us the game, playing it safe is only another word for playing scared, giving the ball back to tampa was the most unsafe call we could have made, what if we open up the offense like we did the entire game and make a first down? Maybe we win? Winners are not afraid to play to win, losers play not to lose.

With that kind of thinking we might as well take a knee in overtime.

I hope this finally wakes Gibbs up to the realazation that Portis is not a power back, and our line can't power run.

That absolutely makes no sense whatsoever.