NFL Playoffs Thread (again with less Suh)

[UMFan83]

Lions end their season on a heartbreaking collapse to Dallas

Dallas ends their season on a heartbreaking call to GB

GB ends their season on a heartbreaking collapse to Seattle

Seattle loses the super bowl on a heartbreakingly terrible play call vs NE

 

Doesnt fit perfectly but whatever

[Guest]

I'm just glad Boston sports finally had something go their way for once.

[sneakypower]

Seahawks fans:

https://t.co/iZAgSzAYVS

[Careless]

=D>

[UMFan83]

Carroll with a long rambling explanation for the playcall that really doesn't say anything at all.

 

He should have just said "I made a bad playcall and we will have to live with the consequences"

[UMFan83]

I'm just glad Boston sports finally had something go their way for once.

 

Honestly the Boston success bothers me a lot less after this:

 

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/06/25/sports/hockey/seventeen_ss-slide-6GUF/seventeen_ss-slide-6GUF-articleLarge.jpg

[mul21]

Carroll with a long rambling explanation for the playcall that really doesn't say anything at all.

 

He should have just said "I made a bad playcall and we will have to live with the consequences"

 

Why would he say that? He didn't make the call, Bevell did.

[UMFan83]

=D>

 

Can someone do one with Trestmans face saying "Even I would have run it"?

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm just glad Boston sports finally had something go their way for once.

 

Honestly the Boston success bothers me a lot less after this:

 

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/06/25/sports/hockey/seventeen_ss-slide-6GUF/seventeen_ss-slide-6GUF-articleLarge.jpg

 

Meaningless.

[Guest]

Carroll with a long rambling explanation for the playcall that really doesn't say anything at all.

 

He should have just said "I made a bad playcall and we will have to live with the consequences"

 

It's not like he doesn't have a history of ignoring his best RB on a pivotal play in a national championship game (Reggie Bush on the sideline on 4th and 2 vs. Texas in the Rose Bowl).

 

ETA: But yeah, that was probably on Bevell (and Wilson for not audibling).

[UMFan83]

Carroll with a long rambling explanation for the playcall that really doesn't say anything at all.

 

He should have just said "I made a bad playcall and we will have to live with the consequences"

 

Why would he say that? He didn't make the call, Bevell did.

 

Ok say "We" then. Either way. It was a terrible call, it backfired in the worst way possible. Just own up to it because nothing about "3 WRs vs a goal line defense" is going to make any sense at all.

[USSoccer]

Bevell should be fired in the locker room after that call. That might be the single worst play call I've ever seen in a football game. Inexplicably stupid.

[Sammy Sofa]

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[Guest]

It's second down and short. You try to run it with Lynch and get stopped, you have to use your final timeout and they pretty much know you have to pass after that. If you try the pass on second down and it is incomplete, then the clock stops and you can run with Lynch again on third down. Then you'd still have the timeout to set up your final play on fourth down if Lynch didn't get in.

 

Bottom line - if you think you may have to run it once and pass it once, it isn't indefensible to pass it on second down when they're probably expecting Lynch.

 

But I still would have handed it to the big fella.

[Guest]

It's second down and short. You try to run it with Lynch and get stopped, you have to use your final timeout and they pretty much know you have to pass after that. If you try the pass on second down and it is incomplete, then the clock stops and you can run with Lynch again on third down. Then you'd still have the timeout to set up your final play on fourth down if Lynch didn't get in.

 

Bottom line - if you think you may have to run it once and pass it once, it isn't indefensible to pass it on second down when they're probably expecting Lynch.

 

But I still would have handed it to the big fella.

 

Then why not have Wilson roll out and give him the option to keep the ball if that's open? If the receivers are covered and he can't make the end zone, then he throws it away.

[USSoccer]

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Tonight's real champion.

[Guest]

@RapSheet: Head coach steps into the fire RT @bcondotta: Carroll says he made the call not Bevell. “I said throw the ball.”

 

Wow.

[Guest]

It's second down and short. You try to run it with Lynch and get stopped, you have to use your final timeout and they pretty much know you have to pass after that. If you try the pass on second down and it is incomplete, then the clock stops and you can run with Lynch again on third down. Then you'd still have the timeout to set up your final play on fourth down if Lynch didn't get in.

 

Bottom line - if you think you may have to run it once and pass it once, it isn't indefensible to pass it on second down when they're probably expecting Lynch.

 

But I still would have handed it to the big fella.

 

No play action, no roll out run/pass option with an athletic, mobile QB?

[mul21]

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[Guest]

There were 24 seconds left after the interception, so you can say there's at least that much time left if they run and failed. Coming off a timeout where you can prepare, you can run Lynch on 3rd down in that scenario and still get the 4th down play off without much trouble. You're at the goal line so you don't have to wait 10 seconds to get aligned.

[USSoccer]

Even if you want to throw there, don't throw a fricking slant into the heart of the defense. Throw some sort of crappy fade or something.

 

But throwing was dumb. Just run it on 2nd down.

[Outshined_One]

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Tonight's real champion.

 

"Go to Julliard for dance they said. You'll have a job within a year of graduating, they said."

[Soul]

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Hell yes

[UMFan83]

Even if you want to throw there, don't throw a fricking slant into the heart of the defense. Throw some sort of crappy fade or something.

 

But throwing was dumb. Just run it on 2nd down.

 

And maybe don't line up in shotgun. I understand a sack is killer there but whatever any pass called will be thrown quickly and you still have the TO and 2 plays to maybe get 7 yards.

 

Lining up with a shotgun formation pretty much gives away the fact that there's going to be a pass.

[NonProfitCow]

Even if you want to throw there, don't throw a fricking slant into the heart of the defense. Throw some sort of crappy fade or something.

 

But throwing was dumb. Just run it on 2nd down.

 

And maybe don't line up in shotgun. I understand a sack is killer there but whatever any pass called will be thrown quickly and you still have the TO and 2 plays to maybe get 7 yards.

 

Lining up with a shotgun formation pretty much gives away the fact that there's going to be a pass.

I thought they were trying to spread the D out and Wilson was gonna take it up the middle on his own.