Does Tomlin know...

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(10-02-2015, 02:37 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: I don't think much of Marvin Lewis, but I do think he's a better coach than Tomlin.  Tomlin has been at his best when he can sit back and let his OC and DC call plays and his HOF QB make plays.  When he has to make key decisions, he kind of doesn't do well.

Amazing how bad calls turn good when great players can make stuff happen.

(10-02-2015, 02:40 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Not once, but twice.  You decide you're in 4 down territory and you throw it, what, 3-4 times?!?

Four times the could have/should have ran with Bell and didn't. Instead relied on 35 year old back up with 2 days to prep. Brilliant play calling.

(10-02-2015, 03:55 AM)MrRager Wrote: Damn, son. Vick didn't play terribly for a backup. He si good enough in that role. Would you have rather seen Landry Jones out there tonight? It is not like there are a ton of options so a athletic backup does not seem like a terrible choice. 

And what did you expect? I think he made the right call to go for it, though I may disagree with the 3rd and 4th playcalls. 

You make the kicker kick the ball. He lives or dies on his own. Instead they asked Vick to make a pass across his body that he wasn't particularly good at when he was a full-time starter? Now, thanks to that call, you have to cut the kicker. Period. Even if you were going to anyway you just said you have no confidence in him at all.

Let's play what if: IF that get the 1st down and then don't get another yard...does Tomlin let him kick then? How close did he want to be?

But because of that call there is nothing Tomlin can say or do to keep Scobee instead of the kicker doing what he is paid do and kicking the ball and deciding his own fate. Not to make Scobee "feel better" about himself...but because that is what he is suppose to do. He didn't miss them all. He's not a rookie. He's been in pressure situations before.

Even beyond all of that if the special teams hadn't bailed Tomlin out on the fake kick (twice) by Harbawler they would have lost in regulation.

I've always defended Tomlin...no more.