reginald Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Nice choice Gailey. You got Spiller & a sell-out crowd all reved up...AND you elect to kick. What does he think, were the steel curtain! Joke. Gailey sounded like bumbling anxious fool at his post game presser. Becoming less impressed everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Bill Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Reminds me of the same decision made several years back when we were playing Pittsburgh's back ups. Late in the season, and we might have made the playoffs w a win. Instead, bone head decision to kick instead of receive. They proceed to score. Now that's how you get the crowd into it. The sad part is these silly decisions don't even irk me anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cåblelady Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Nice choice Gailey. You got Spiller & a sell-out crowd all reved up...AND you elect to kick. What does he think, were the steel curtain! Joke. +1 When they deferred I just stood there shaking my head. I did said wtf? too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpperDeck Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 , if we'd only chose to receive the opening kickoff we coulda won this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in STL Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 (edited) Nice choice Gailey. You got Spiller & a sell-out crowd all reved up...AND you elect to kick. What does he think, were the steel curtain! Joke. Gailey sounded like bumbling anxious fool at his post game presser. Becoming less impressed everyday. Our offense played great against New England so lets defer and kick so our suspect defense can get rolled on the first series. Deferring is for pussies. Unless the weather is a major factor give me the damm ball first. Edited October 4, 2010 by Bob in STL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cåblelady Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 , if we'd only chose to receive the opening kickoff we coulda won this game. Why start the game with a crappy defense on the field? Perhaps if we had elected to receive we may have gotten a little momentum going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpperDeck Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 We had momentum at halftime. Look how that worked out. If you watch other games teams almost always chose to defer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cåblelady Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 We had momentum at halftime. Look how that worked out. If you watch other games teams almost always chose to defer. Momentum being down 17-7? OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 The advantage to defer is to see what the other team is doing defensivly and make adjustments at halftime. But clearly Gailey is just a bumbling anxious fool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyT Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 (edited) People put way too much damn emphasis on the coin toss. It's one of the hindsight things that's basically useless to fuss about. You're never going to know the correct choice till after the game's over and it's still debatable at that point. The decision didn't set the tone for the game, it was the swiss cheese defense that didn't do squat to stop them on the opening drive, and it was the inept offense and special teams that allowed the Jets to walk all over them. Just look at what they did in the second half...came out of the locker room with momentum...crowd's fired up after the touchdown thinking the Bills might be able to turn things around....then they go 3-and-out. Edited October 4, 2010 by MattyT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonInBuffalo Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 deferring made sense to me. With the crappy weather, you've got a good chance for a quick 3 and out, or maybe even a turnover. Every coach's decision will look bad if the players on the field don't make the plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilsner Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Nice choice Gailey. You got Spiller & a sell-out crowd all reved up...AND you elect to kick. What does he think, were the steel curtain! Joke. Gailey sounded like bumbling anxious fool at his post game presser. Becoming less impressed everyday. Electing to kick off and get the ball in the 2nd half is what most teams are likely to do. I have no problems with this. On D if with our roaring crowd and adequate D we were able to stop the jests then great! We would be on O with no jest points and still have the ball first in the 2nd half. Unfortunately it didn't work out that way. Why say the winds were taken out of our sails by deferring? The crowd can get way into it for our D. Effin put your chins up and don't make excuses over who got the ball first. We would have gotten pasted either way. I still think it was the right call to defer. I'm in the minority here but oh well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless Ike Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Deferring gives you a 50/50 chance to have one more possession than the other team, its not a bad strategy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowery4 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 When the only thing you win in a game is the coin toss you have to take the ball and not kick it. I hate deferring and losing momentum b4 the game even starts. Take the ball and run it down their damn throats!!! I don't care about one extra possession in the 2nd half when you are already beat by the second half! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b stein 22 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I dont get it. We had momentum going into the second half with the ball. And if we elected to receive the ball and when 3 and out on the first drive some of you would be blaming Gailey for not deferring. Gailey made the right choice we just suck. How could Gailey know that the jets were going to score. If he had confidents in his team he would let the defense get out there first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cåblelady Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 How could Gailey know that the jets were going to score. Why shouldn't he? Everybody else did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b stein 22 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 (edited) If he had confidents in his team he would let the defense get out there first. I guess you forgot to read the rest i will help you out. Edited October 4, 2010 by b stein 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cåblelady Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I guess you forgot to read the rest i will help you out. I read it. I stand by my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 If I was a coach, I would defer every time there wasn't some extenuating circumstance. I love getting the ball in the 2nd half. When Marv was coaching, they didn't give you the choice, and he always hoped to lose the coin toss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numark Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 um yes, blame the coach for a coin toss decision and not the defense for letting the other team impose their will on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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