The call was good, the execution by McGraw was the problem. Why the **** is McGraw on the field instead of Morgan, anyway?!

Of course another problem might be our crappy DEs but that is actually Carl's fault or Herm, depending who you believe.

No, Surtain did his job. It was McGraw who failed to come running and hit Moss so hard his socks would come off and it was our slow-ass DEs who had to stop to get a bus transfer on their way to the QB.

why is mcintosh in place of herb and mcgraw for morgan

I think it was both of their faults really. Surtain should have at least slowed Moss up a little. If he had maybe McGraw would have had the time to make it over.

PhilFree:arrow:

it was a perfect pass that was undefendable without a PI.

In that situation i dont think the plan is to play press coverage. Its to play inside so he cant do a quick slant and the safety is supposed to be over the top waiting for the streak. McGraw wasnt where he was supposed to be and game 50 yard gain.

The reason for the TO was the wind. KC was trying to kill the clock and get them to punt from their endzone into the wind before they switched sides for the 2nd quarter. Herm was playing a field position game.

The second down play should've been called a safety.

The ball broke the plane out of the endzone. Not a safety

According to Madden during the Colts/Bears game last night, the entire ball has to get out of the endzone. Considering the runner was backing out of the endzone, I don't believe you can say for certain that the entire ball crossed the goal line.

Just one more reason to boot Herm's ass.

This has been my complaint about his aggressiveness for a long time. He's too predictable and it too often results in giving up a big play. I can't count how many times we've been burned for huge plays on third down blitzes.

If his aggressiveness is his strong suit it's time for a new coordinator, IMO.

If Dwayne bowe would've caught an easy touchdown to take it into overtime, brandon flowers wouldn't have ran into the punter, or pat thomas didn't get played like a fool by matt cassel we could have won this game. The call by gunther to blitz on the 1 yard line would have been a great call had mcgraw covered over top like he was supposed to there would have been double coverage on moss deep, and the patriots would have been punting from their endzone. The call was fine.

I have a question on this play ...

We called the TO on 3rd down, correct? Herm says that we did that because we wanted them to punt into the wind. My question is, how much time was on the play clock when we called TO? Would the quarter have ended BEFORE the 3rd down snap or AFTER?

FAX

I'm growing tired of Gunther. I have absolutely no experience in playing or coaching football but right before the play I said to my friend "Watch, they are going to throw deep to Randy Moss." And you all know what happened from there. The fact that Gunther did not have the foresight to see that coming and put double coverage on Moss is horrible. It's amazing how stupid our coaching is on both units on this team. A good opposing coach will often know what we are going to do before we do it.