Belichick made mistakes in his career - but they were infrequent. He's better than anyone, and it's really not close w/ McDermott.
I honestly don't think there is a coach from the past decade or so who passes 3x in that last series like we did.
Man, it would have been such a huge comeback win - potential to be season-defining.
Now we're 3-2. Probably still win the division, but doubtful that we'll be in the mix for a top seed.
How do you pass 3 times from the endzone w/ such little time left? How do you do that? I can't get over it.
I'll have to watch it.
I mean, why did not know it wasn't smart at the time? It wasn't even close to a "hindsight" thing. It is BASIC COACHING.
I don't think even a high school coach would have passed there. I'm really dismayed. And I've been a McD supporter in general, but he totally blew that, and really let down a bunch of guys who had worked so hard to get that game tied.
Maybe some good will come out of this one. Maybe Beane makes a move.
And I'm tired of being the early season champs, anyway. Would rather see us get hot in the 2nd half of the season - and hope we have the kind of team that can. I still have some faith.
When I saw Allen lining up in the shotgun on that last series, I was really mystified - I figured they were trying to fool them, but obviously they'd still run it.
I hope he gets asked about that series all week. He needs to explain that.
There were drops all over the place, no one was getting open, he had little to no protection, and Brady KEPT CALLING RUNS ON FIRST DOWN, leaving us w/ a lot of 2nd & 3rd and long.
This thread is a complete overreaction.
On that last series?
I was really stunned. I don't think I've ever seen a coach do that. You run it 3x, make the Texans use their TO's and punt if you don't get the first, right? Am I missing something?
You have maybe a 10% chance of scoring from your own 3 with no timeouts and 40 seconds.
McDermott just disrespected the whole team and the effort they made by not just kneeling there.
That, to me, is a fireable offense. That is terrible, terrible coaching.