Play Calling

offiss · 11-28-2005, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by LongTimeSkinsFan

I totally agree here and the playcalling was the topic of a post I made earlier today. Especially after the hold when you have 2nd and 14 why not throw and underneath route to Cooley. Hell for that matter we even had moderate success with medium routes down the field to Moss and Jacobs. I think the whole game Brunell had been sacked maybe twice and for the most part, had not been under the gun. Running on 2nd and 14 made no sense to me at all. I thought the 1st half play calling was much better with a better mix of the pass and run, plus we were spreading the passes around and using all our receivers (even Royal, who couldn't catch a cold today!). I just think that our problem for the past three weeks we don't know how to hold a lead, and IMHO the best way to hold a lead is to always play like your 3 to 6 points behind and play to score every time. Don't be happy with just running the clock down or 'winning the battle for field position'. As I've understood the game, the team with the most points wins.

Well it seem I should have started the SCARED TO WIN! thread a week later, I probably wouldn't have recieved as much flack this week.

Yea but what else is new, Gibbs has been calling games since he came out of retirement as if the world is going to end if he actually does something other than a routine running play late in the forth quarter, I am tired of hearing about the complaining about the refs, Gibbs allows them to be a factor late in the game with his play calling, and lack of killer instinkt to close teams out.

Just like last week, and the week before that, Gibbs went to the apple of his eye with the game on the line and failed again, I guess he hasen't figured out yet that we can't run the ball when the game is on the line, I guess he believes Portis is Tomlinson, Alexander, Barber, all who had huge runs with the game in the balance today, but to be fair to Portis I put most of the blame on Gibbs for not having the sense to not call his number.

But I guess all said and done running the ball there was the right move, just like last week, and the week before that, it really seems to be working out well.