10-15-2018, 08:04 PM
(10-14-2018, 05:50 PM)JWW1971 Wrote: Totally sickening!!
One thing cost us that game, on our last TD drive with the game clock running and about 1:30 still on it and the play clock sitting with 24 secs left Dalton snapped the ball. Why the **** did we not wait and run another 20 seconds off the clock?
The Squeelers would then have had less than a minute after we had scored the touchdown.
Who is responsible for this? Marvin, Lazor or Dalton. Who ever it is needs there balls wrapped.
To many games against this lot that we have lost in the last few seconds because of mistakes and it is absolutely Sickening, starting to think that there are certain people in the organisation that are too close to the Squeelers due to working for them in the past.
I hope this doesn't have a knock on effect for the rest of the season.
I'm guess i'm just really hurting just now
While this wasn't helpful, it was far from what cost us the game.
The beginning of the second half... we have the ball, Erickson has a nice return. We make a few plays but find ourselves looking at a 3rd and 1. Give the ball to Mixon, he gets stopped for little to no gain. We now have 4th and 1. I am screaming at my TV for us to go for it. A divisional rival, the most hated one at that, and we have a chance to put up some points to take the lead. What call is made? Punt... silly defensive minded HC, figuring to "pin them back deep and play the field position game" with a defense that hasn't stopped anyone all year long. The Steelers get a FG on their possession.
Turnovers... for a team emphasizing TOs, we aren't very good at it. A few dropped INTs, hell Dunlap and Hubbard tipped a ball in the air and NONE of the LBers made any attempt at the ball, one fumble by their TE and we don't capitalize and get the recovery? That lead to another FG by the way.
Our last drive of the game.... 2 mins, already on our side of the field with 2 time outs. 1 run play called... the TD. I understand that you have to take points when they present themselves, however in the NFL the team that possesses the ball last is usually the team that will win the game. You have to move the chains but you have to do so efficiently. If you are looking at 3rd and 3 with 40 seconds left and 2 time outs, go for the run play to try and get the 1st down, call a TO and stop the clock. We had way too much time left at the end. It would have been one thing if we had went up by 4 or more with the TD, but the TD only gave us a 1 point lead. They had all 3 TOs and only needed a FG to win. Our Defense was hurting and limping at this point and have been lackluster all season long.
Going back to Mixon, he had less than 20 carries... that is unacceptable. I am no Mixon fan, but if he is the back, then he should be used. It was almost like his failure to get the 1st down on the 3rd and 1 made us move away from him.
Lastly, the drops... those were terrible. Even Green had his fair share, however Core's stand out the most. Gotta catch the ball when they are that easy. I know a lot of WRs miss on those easy catches, but that doesn't excuse them.
