milkman |
09-03-2014 07:27 AM |
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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
(Post 10871762)
Smith played probably the best game of his career in Indianapolis. I give him full credit for that. I don't know if he's capable of playing at that level again, but regardless of what he did, if Reid would have just ran the goddamned ball a few times it probably wouldn't have mattered.
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I have no problem with the fact that he didn't utilize the ground game more in the second half, since they were ineffective running the ball at that point.
My problem with the playcalling is that he was calling designed swing passes and screens and such to run clock, and the Colts were defending that, leaving the Chiefs in 3rd and long situations throughout the second half.
When you put yourself in those situations, you will eventually fail.
As for Alex Smith, where he failed is with the play clock.
With a 28 point lead, he should have run the play clock down to nothing before snapping the ball, yet there were 7 to 11 seconds left on that play clock almost every time the ball was snapped.
With about 40 snaps in the second half on offense, that's inthe neighborhood of 6 mins of clock that wasn't burned.
The Colts scored the go ahead TD with about 4 and a 1/2 minutes left in the game.
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