jamadd Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Lost in the dust surrounding Leodis McKelvin’s on-field decisions, his coach’s mind-boggling support of those decisions, and the asinine, class-less, and cowardly acts perpetrated by some low life pond scum in the 716 is the fact that he should have been coached/ordered to take a knee on both of those last two kickoffs (given that they made it to the endzone). Put it on April or Jauron, or suspend McKelvin for insubordination, but leading by 11 points in that situation, with the ‘hands team’ in front of him, LM needs to be a TEAM player and preserve the win. End of conversation. It makes no difference that he is a gifted and threatening returner, or that he felt a need to atone for an earlier fumble. Those are selfish motivations. If the Pats had been leading 24-13 with just over five minutes to play, we would see a lot of time consuming running plays, not Brady to Moss on deep post routes every play, despite the fact that that combination is just as likely to produce a successful outcome as a gifted return man is to take it the distance. Brady’s having thrown a pick to a DE for a TD earlier in the game would not have factored in to the equation. One has to be disturbed by the coach’s (public) take on this. True, you want to protect your players when they screw up, but to suggest that you tell your return man to just rely on his instincts in critical situations is disturbing. You don’t think they would tell Trent “just go out there and run whatever feels right and we’ve got your back no matter what happens.” Very disturbing indeed. Bills need to have an exit strategy for DJ and that should not include April as interim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 He had his back. I have no problem with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy in 4C Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Lost in the dust surrounding Leodis McKelvin’s on-field decisions, his coach’s mind-boggling support of those decisions, and the asinine, class-less, and cowardly acts perpetrated by some low life pond scum in the 716 is the fact that he should have been coached/ordered to take a knee on both of those last two kickoffs (given that they made it to the endzone). Put it on April or Jauron, or suspend McKelvin for insubordination, but leading by 11 points in that situation, with the ‘hands team’ in front of him, LM needs to be a TEAM player and preserve the win. End of conversation. It makes no difference that he is a gifted and threatening returner, or that he felt a need to atone for an earlier fumble. Those are selfish motivations.If the Pats had been leading 24-13 with just over five minutes to play, we would see a lot of time consuming running plays, not Brady to Moss on deep post routes every play, despite the fact that that combination is just as likely to produce a successful outcome as a gifted return man is to take it the distance. Brady’s having thrown a pick to a DE for a TD earlier in the game would not have factored in to the equation. One has to be disturbed by the coach’s (public) take on this. True, you want to protect your players when they screw up, but to suggest that you tell your return man to just rely on his instincts in critical situations is disturbing. You don’t think they would tell Trent “just go out there and run whatever feels right and we’ve got your back no matter what happens.” Very disturbing indeed. Bills need to have an exit strategy for DJ and that should not include April as interim. Uhh... McKelvin should take the ball out. He wants to get it below the 2 minute warning, not giving the Pats an extra time out. The clock was at 2:06 or something like that. Smart play at first, dumb that he did not go down and protect the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 He had his back. I have no problem with that. Absolutely. DJ is a players' coach. Maybe to a fault. But he did the right thing in supporting McKelvin in public. I'm not so sure he didn't/won't have different words for McKelvin in the lockerroom, though. GO BILLS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I agree with Peter. He's not gonna come out and throw him under the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnyguy Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Why is it so hard for people, who question his decision to run it out, to understand that McKelvin was not sure if his momentum carried him into the endzone. Had that been the case a kneel down would result in a safety and we'd then have to give the ball back to the Patsys. His indecision on what he should do was evident in his slight hesitation before running it out. Being unsure of whether he caught the ball in the endzone or in the field of play the safest thing to do would be to run it out. It was the correct thing to do based on the circumstance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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