Bwahhaaaahaha. Take that you fucking gutless losers.
So Martz. You got the ball in the red zone, 25 seconds left, what do you do, you roll over and waste time for a field goal and eventually lose the game.
Hey Vermeil, You havn’t stopped their Offence all day, you have the ball on a ready for kickoff, do you try to win, or kick deep and prey. Kick deep and impotently watch while they steamroll you yet again. Strike two for the cowards.
Yo, Sherman. Fourth down, all you need is one little yard and you can take the game. Do you let your team show what it’s made off, or do you bend over to let them see how deep they can stick it in. Pretty deep I guess cause you’re headed back to the golf courses.
You pussy ass fucking cowards deserved to lose. Quite litererally you are doing this for my entertainment, as that is what the success of your game is based on. Piss me off with your spineless quivering crap and I will watch gleefully as the gods of real men smite your worthless, no-ball having, chicken-shit asses off the field for the year.
To br fair, Shermans’s decision while gutless and wrong, would not have killed the Packer’s by itself. You also have to credit a defense that couldn’t stop a fourth and 26 and, even more importantly, Brett Favre for throwing one of the most boneheaded interceptions in recent playoff memory.
Agree with the OP on all counts. That being said, that was by far the best weekend in the history of the NFL playoffs. Two overtime games and the other two came down to the very last play. Lots of drama in each game. Normally I can get shit done during a playoff weekend when one of the games ends up being a blowout. I haven’t watched even close to this much TV at once since I got internet access.
As a Colts fan, I am extremely pleased with the idiotic decision of Dick Vermeil to actually give the ball back to a Colts offense that did not have to punt for a second consecutive week. All during the 4th quarter (and a substantial part of the 3rd, when it was clear just how much of a shoot-out this would be) I was waiting for Vermeil to onside-kick the ball, which I felt was the only chance the Chiefs had to tie the game. When the clock got under about six minutes I figured they would try it, and either they would get it and tie the game or the Colts would get it and start running more.
What I did not expect was for the Colts to get the ball in their own territory. I didn’t even care all that much when they turned the ball over on downs deep in Chief territory; I figured Dungy wanted to seal the game, but instead the Chiefs just had a very difficult situation, and one they obviously did not convert.
But even if you DO get the kick, that still leaves at least two minutes for Peyton Manning and company, who earlier this year scored 21 points in … what, like four minutes? And this Chiefs defense was not exactly getting stops. The Colts failed to score on IIRC 2 possessions; one at the end of the first half deep in theor own territory where they basically sat on the ball (from what I gather), and the other one at the end of the game where they went for a 4th and not much and came up a bit short.
I think Vermeil was screwed either way, but I think it would have been wiser to onside kick it; at least that way you give your team more of a chance. And with a shorter field for the Colts to work with, perhaps you get the ball with more time on the clock, I dunno. But then I am hampered because I “watched” the game on the computer since I couldn’t get CBS to work for me, so maybe I missed something that was evident on television.
Tell me about it. When I saw the Packers offense trotting off the field after trying to draw an offsides call, I was cheering. Cheering because I hate the Pack and because there’s no way in hell the Eagles defense would’ve stopped the Packers on that 4th and 1. (Not if the rest of the game was any indication.)
Packers deserved to lose for being such boneheaded, spineless schmucks. The game should’ve been over, the Pack should be going to championships but, instead, they go home after a dazzling display of mediocrity.
Well, unfortunately, the NFL is currently a pussy football coaches league. If you listened to the commentary, though, punting on a 4th and 1 was the “right” thing to do (“what if aliens landed and knocked the ball loose?”), and with head coaches on the hot seat with so much turnover, I can’t say I really blame 'em.
If David Carr hadn’t converted that play, would our patron saint of non-pussy-football, Dom Capers, still be employed at this moment?
(That said, one of the great highlights of the end of the Steelers season was the fake punt against Baltimore, and I’d love to see Cowher going back to being aggressive)
With the revolving-door coaching employment system that’s been set up, coaches are no longer incentivized to take any kind of risk, even when it’s the smart play. It’s better to play it safe and then allow players to accept the blame for losses.
When one simple and easily achievable play (like the 4th and 1 late in the Packers-Eagles game) will give you the outright victory, why on Earth would you punt and give the other team the chance to win? Coaches seem to develop a severe case of puckered asshole when the game is on the line. Think about it: if the other team rejoices at the decision you made (like the Eagles and their fans surely did), then you probably did not make the right decision.