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Originally Posted by tk13
This is just as stupid as the other thread. We're a bad football team. I don't think we've played particularly well or coached particularly well. But everybody's trying to pin it down to one play or one series to try and find some scapegoat to put a face on their feelings. Saying Gailey, or Herm, or even Carl should be fired for that one series is dumb.
There's no reason to be confident we would've successfully completed a pass there, ran the ball successfully there, there sure as heck isn't any reason to be confident we could've ran the last 5 minutes off the clock, and if we didn't, our special teams failed. And then if we'd given Farve anywhere from 1-5 minutes left, he probably could've taken the team down to get at least a FG. Pinning it on one thing is stupid.
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Which statement is better?
"We're going to run it up the gut 3 times here with Kolby Smith, who's carried for 1ypc today"
"We're going to see if Thigpen, who's played well today, can make a couple of completions and get a few first downs"
OF COURSE neither guarantees success, but I don't understand how people couldn't pick the second one every single time.
It has nothing to do with the actual outcome, it has to do with giving the players the best chance possible to be successful. I expect incomplete passes, interceptions, dropped passes, missed tackles, stupid penalties, etc. Play calling like that at the end of the game is unacceptable.
Would we have won the game otherwise? Who knows, but we weren't going to win running it up the center's ass three times and handing the ball to Brett Favre with three minutes to go, three timeouts, needing to kick a field goal to tie.