You probably blamed the 1995 playoff loss on Lin Elliot, too.

A lot of people blamed Steve Bono.

Steve Bono put Lin Elliot in a position to fail.

Tyler Thigpen put Connor Barth in a position to fail.

Why even respond to this? Thigpen is the least of our worries.

How about the offense's possession time in the whole second half was only 12:15

Well when your quarterback can't convert third downs, that happens.

dude face it, if Thigy through for 430 yards and 5 TDs with no pics you would bitch.

Go into the game thread. Thigpen was outstanding in the first half. I was really impressed with his play.

He shit the bed in the second half. We're lucky it wasn't worse. There was at least one dropped interception.

A 30 yard FG is a position to fail? You are a moron.STFU

Thigpen may not be good enough but take a look at all of the other situations where this TEAM had the opportunity to close out this game:

- 34 yard field goal
- 50 yard field goal
- Dropped onsides kick
- Defense under 2 minutes
- Defense under 40 seconds
- LJ on 3rd and inches
- Fade pass on 3rd and 1 in the red zone
- Interception in the end zone
- Challenging the line of scrimmage pass
- etc, etc, etc

There's plenty of blame to go around. I put Thigpen near the bottom of reasons why we lost the game.

When your RB, who is the highest paid player on your team, can not convert short yardage 3rd downs, it is not the fault of the QB with limited experience. LJ had 55 yards on 17 carries, THAT is not getting it done!!!

He's essentially a rookie..expected from him..he's got nothing but to improve..

I don't normally have a problem with you, but sometimes... goddamn, sometimes you're the biggest tool on this board.

If you're saying Thiggy put Barth in a position to fail, then I'm saying Herm put Thiggy in a position to fail.

Barth's job is to kick field goals when the team is in position. A 34-yard kick should be nailed. Every. Time.

As I said earlier, I'll give Barth a pass on the long kick at the end. Those 50-yarders are tough.

But we lost by less than a FG. The short kick early in the game was the difference between a win and a loss.

He scored a rushing TD in those 12:15!!??!

it is pretty easy to disappear when your coach doesn't let you throw a pass for nearly three quarters.

Every snap of the ball is a chance to succeed or fail.

Unfortunately Thigpen just kept failing, and failing, and failing, and failing, after halftime. No wonder his teammates followed suit!

Posts like this make me wonder how people manage to land jobs.