The NFL trotted out this Play 60 commercial today. Not sure if you guys are seeing these in Canada, but this may be the best commercial ever made.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
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From what I saw the Lions had the ball 2nd and 10 on the 27 (44 yard FG). They ran the ball and got stuffed back to the 30. In this day and age coaches are so timid. What do to on 3rd and 13 in FG range, do you throw it? That's risky isn't it? Do you run again and get stuffed again? Then it's now a 50 yd FG. That's what Houston did earlier in the OT, they were in FG range then ended up running the ball 3 times (all for losses) and kicking a 51 yd FG on 4th and 16! and missed left.
Coaches are SO SCARED to throw the ball when in a seemingly winning FG situation yet during the game they throw the ball 70% of the time. OT makes everyone chicken.
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NFL coaches are the worst. Afraid to go for it on so many 4th downs when clearly they should and the conservative play calling today was a joke. Time for the NFL to start to get an influx of statistic based logic to be a head coach.
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From what I saw the Lions had the ball 2nd and 10 on the 27 (44 yard FG). They ran the ball and got stuffed back to the 30. In this day and age coaches are so timid. What do to on 3rd and 13 in FG range, do you throw it? That's risky isn't it? Do you run again and get stuffed again? Then it's now a 50 yd FG. That's what Houston did earlier in the OT, they were in FG range then ended up running the ball 3 times (all for losses) and kicking a 51 yd FG on 4th and 16! and missed left.
Coaches are SO SCARED to throw the ball when in a seemingly winning FG situation yet during the game they throw the ball 70% of the time. OT makes everyone chicken.
ESPN's TMQ sums it up very well when he states that coaches call games so as not to be blamed for a loss. They do not coach to win.
If the kicker misses a long kick, it's the kickers fault. If the coach calls a pass, and something bad happens, it's the coaches fault.
It also shouldn't be surprising when coaches try to avoid blame, rather then trying to win games, that they do not win games.
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NFL coaches are the worst. Afraid to go for it on so many 4th downs when clearly they should and the conservative play calling today was a joke. Time for the NFL to start to get an influx of statistic based logic to be a head coach.
4th down is a different issue for me, I'm pretty conservative when it comes to it.
Depends on risk reward, I like to punt it most of the time.
This might be the game that gets Jim Schwartz fired. Kicking on third down from 47 yards? Throwing the challenge flag costing your team dearly? His teams are as undiscipline as he is too. At this point I can see them losing out since they now have nothing to play for.
I loved him after the incident with that d-bag Harbaugh but this team has really regressed this year. The playcalling and then going for the kick on 3rd down were maddening.
This team has a lot of talent but a ton of holes as well. I want Mayhew gone and think it is time for Schwartz to go as well.
