Again, you run it where? Into the middle? Each play is like 2-3 seconds because they call their TOs. We wind up punting and giving them the ball with around 10-15 seconds. They have time to run a play, get to the line, spike it.
If anything he was pushing too hard today. He wasn’t “on” today. Three throws:
1. Overthrows Hollis deep.
2. Underthrows Kincaid deep.
3. Flare to Samuel. Throws it behind him when he had running room if he leads him.
Just an assumption on your part. We show run formation they stack it and we run little time off. Martin’s punt was good, coverage was late.
So you assume running plays pinned within the 5 yard line would automatically work.
Second:
Even if we had run the ball 3x in a row and HOU used all 3 timeouts, we're punting with 20+ seconds left on the clock instead of 16. Everything else being the same the Texans would've had 11 seconds to run a play in the middle of the field and spike it (risky), or a pass to the sideline.
Third:
Let's say we followed your script and ran the ball 3x and then successfully defended the sideline on the Texans one play..... there's still a good chance Fairbairn makes the 64 yard FG
From another poster a couple pages back. Not everyone agrees with you.
I don’t think the decision was wrong. And as I’ve said if we had run and they kick the FG people would be screaming we should have thrown to get a first down. A first down was the only thing that guarantees getting to OT.
And his kick would have been good from 63 or so.
I guarantee - absolutely guarantee - if we had run it 3 times, kicked and they get the FG the same know-it-alls here would be screaming about how we should have thrown it.
Coaching was not good in the first half, better in the second. Josh was not good today though; if he’s more like his usual self it’s a win.