YOOOOOO Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 LoL....you guys are silly..... saying it was a bad call... The same people saying he should of gone for it...would be saying "hit the FG, thats what smart coaches do"...if we did go for it and got stuffed... The FG was the right call....put us up by 4, with Pitt 3rd string QB in and a practice squad RB...against our D who has been allowing FG's all day...C'mon its a no brainer.... Lindell missed it....then Bledsoe fumbled the ball away in our zone...MM aint no prophet and doesnt have the luxury of being a monday morning QB... He made the right call and it back fired.... BOTTOM LINE
MRW Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 If it were up to fans, would teams ever kick field goals? I mean, come on, if you don't kick it in that situation, when would you?
BB2004 Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 at the time, i completely agreed w/ mularkey's decision to attempt the short FG. it was a "safe" coaching move and was the "right" call to make. it's a chip shot FG and if good, you force pitt's backups to score a TD against your "premiere" defense and a hostile crowd. realizing that hindsight is 20/20, now i'm not so sure. an aggressive, we're-playing-to-win-this-thing-here-and-now mentality would have said go for 4th and 1 and give the ball to your stud. i mean, c'mon -- if you can't get a yard against backups when you're fighting for your playoff lives, do you really deserve to be there? i know starting this thread isn't very productive, because i do believe if lindell makes the FG the bills win. but i think it goes to show how fine the line is between winning and losing, and that blame for this loss can be spread throughout the entire organization, including coaches. no one player should shoulder the entire load. that said, i'm hoping lindell finds a new home next season and losman proves himself worthy of a 1st-round selection. 190109[/snapback] It was a no brainer at the time. It was a chip shot, a 28 yard field goal. It made a huge difference at the time. That miss was unacceptable.
Dan Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 The decision to kick wasn't bad. It's the safe thing to do. However, I think that was the flaw in the entire gameplan. We won 6 in a row by not being safe - we took chances, threw a few long passes, blitzed like crazy, ran trick plays. Where was all that yesterday? In my opinion, the game plan was too vanilla, too safe from the start. Am I wrong, but from my living room we looked flat and uninspired. It just didn't look like the sameteam that I had seen the last few weeks.
Rico Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 I think it was the right call. Not only did I not see Lindell missing , but the way our D opened the 2nd half, no way does the scrub RB rip off that huge run.
KD in CA Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 I can't believe people are actually arguing this point. There was no decision at all, it was obviously a kicking situation. And it's not about 'we should be able to get one yard', it's about playing smart to win the game. Lindell was 71 out of 78 from inside 30 yards in his career and has to be counted on to make the kick. Besides, It wasn't like McGahee and Co. were running roughshod over the Pittsburg D all game long. He was stuffed for no gain about half a dozen times during the game.
Boatdrinks Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 If that idiot Lindell makes the kick, it puts the Bills up by 4. It was a perfectly acceptable move to make, unless of course youre playing Madden 05. Which it seems a lot of folks here are. See, when youre dealing in REALITY...making the correct "safe" move usually trumps the need to pull your dick out and go "balls out" to satisfy some silly ego thing. 190312[/snapback] This was not a sily "EGO" thing. Part of coaching is knowing your personel and feeling the "momentum" of the game. That drive was the first sign of life our O had since the opening drive and we had not been confident at that point. Even if we did not convert the 4th down, it still would have been a show of confidence and faith in the O and not nearly as deflating as a missed kick. Lindell had been good from that range, but don't you STILL get that quaesy feeling every time he lines up for a FG try? I do and this coaching staff MUST or they would try a long FG once in a while. Sometimes the safe play and percentages are NOT what your team needs. We needed to take a chance and finish that drive or throw the D back out there and say go get 'em. Our D looked like they were still contemplating that miss on Parkers 50 something yard jaunt.
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