oldmanfan

Yes, I was calling for them to switch up defenses all day. But how about putting the blame on some players, particularly the D line that got blown off the ball all day long?

They don’t block it they march down the field and score anyway. It was that type of game.

The penalty takes them out of FG range. At the time we had no idea if McVay would kick the FG or not. It’s on the D to stop them and the D sucked all day long.

I disagree but we'll never know.

You take the penalty because it knocks them out of FG range if McVay was thinking about kicking. But the D wet the bed like they did all game. That's also why I don't have an issue deciding to call the TO and rely on an onside kick. The alternative was expecting your D to get a 3 and out which simply was not going to happen.

Nope, being serious. I don't think there was any way we hold them to three and out. McVay would have known one first down wins the game; he would not have just ran the ball 3 times.

I think we had a better chance of recovering an onside kick vs. trying to stop them

and the GM.

Football always has been and will always be about physically beating the guy in front of you. Our D line got physically dominated yesterday. Has nothing to do with coaching, has to do with getting whupped.

I agree with the latter. I was screaming all day for them to do something different than rush 4 and play zone.

How many other teams stop guys like these? Look at the Rams D yesterday, couldn’t come close to stopping a great player in Josh.

The true coaching failure was Smiley having 9 guys on the field. Taking the penalty gets them into 3rd and I think 15? Your D has to stop that. Has to. But we couldn’t stop them all day. That’s why I was OK with the onside kick. I think that was a better chance than assuming we could stop them with 3 TOs.

Thanks Nostradamus. Should a TO been called? No. But if Josh had not liked the call, he could have just spiked it instead of running the play. McD didn’t call the play, it was either Brady or Josh that decided to run it. As for the TO and onside kick, for that to be the wrong decision you have to assume that our D would have held them. I think it’s a pretty safe assumption we would not have. Mcvay would have known one first down wins the game, so he would have had his entire list of plays available vs. just running it 3 times. We hadn’t stopped Stanford all day long.

I estimate the chances of all that happening at 3% or less. We had not held them all day,. McVay would not have just called three runs when he knew one first down wins the game.

So when offensive guys make great plays it’s on them, but when D linemen get shoved around all day that the HC’s fault?

Just to clarify when players like Josh do good things it’s only about the player, but when players like on our D line do bad things it’s only about McD?

He’s right. Face it, today their WRs were way better than our DBs and their O line especially was better. That’s why they won.

As a coach I would put it on my defense of course. But regardless we were going to need a miracle to win in that last minute.

Then you did not watch the game and see Johnson’s TD I guess.

Oh please. Give me a break. I’m critical of McD today because he and Babbitt didn’t get out of their rush 4/zone thing that wasn’t working. His decisions the last minute not so much.

Given we hadn’t stopped them all day what were the odds we do so in the last minute?

Great coaches tend to have great QBs. Which is cause and which is effect?

That can’t happen.

Football is about beating the guy in front of you. Always has been, always will be. Their O line beat our D line, their WRs beat our DBs. And vice versa. At some point today someone on the D needed to stand up and win a battle. They didn’t.

Kind of like what happened to the Rams D today. Really good offenses tend to beat defenses.