01-10-2016, 03:42 AM
(01-10-2016, 02:50 AM)AmeriknGrizzly Wrote: Ok pretty sure I'm gonna get a lot of flak for this but I don't blame Hill for this loss.
I rest full blame on whoever made the call for him to run on that play. We had the lead and we had the positioning, all we had to do was kneel three times so Pit would burn timeouts and then kick the field goal to extend the lead. After that you kickoff, they have no timeouts, and have to score a touchdown to win with only around a minute remaining. Also after he stepped up after Gio was hit, c'mon he was a different player after that.
I will concede that yes he should have held on to the ball but the ball should never have been put in his hands in the first place.
I have to disagree with you. Kneeling would not have done much except for make them burn their time outs and because of how little time on the play is gone, they would have had the ball with a lot of time left.
Kicking the FG would have been great, but they would have had over a minute and if you factor in the return we could have lost that game in other ways.
So running was the best play call. However, I am disgusted that Hill felt the need to get extra yardage. He got like 6-7 yards and if he goes down right there we burn 6 seconds, they burn a TO. We run again, if Hill doesn't convert, then another 6 seconds and a TO. Now we have 3rd and short, we pick up the 1st and game over, we don't they burn their final TO after about 6 seconds gone again. Kick the FG, and hope we get it. Now they need a TD with at least 18 ran off the clock and 0 TOs. If we miss the FG, then they still have 0 TO and we don't lose anything.
Hill's fumble is completely inexcusable, there was 0 need to fight for the extra yardage. Seems like out of all the players, he is the one that lost his composure the most after the hit on Gio. He seemed to feel that he had to prove something by getting a 1st down there. A 1st down run would have only made them burn a TO and we would have been able to run just a little bit more off the clock, would have been great, but not at all needed. I am sick, because I am just a fan. I am not a coach, nor a player, however I keep seeing players like Hill, not understand situational football and for them to make the money they do playing this game, they should know what to do in certain situations. For this one, Hill needed to be more concerned with securing the football and not worried about getting a big run.
