Run The Ball!!!

by 88horsepower on Sep 22, 2008 12:47 AM EDT Comment 11 comments

Talk about letting a game slip through your fingers. We get deep within the Jaguars red zone with just over a minute to go in the game and instead of running the ball with the intent to score, we pass twice. That has to be some of the most foolish play-calling I've seen in quite some time. By running the ball, you at least take time off the clock or force the Jaguars to spend precious timeouts, so that when they do get the ball back, they won't have as much to work with. The Colts scoring a go-ahead touchdown was a necessity, but they didn't have to pass twice and then run in order to make it happen. Instead of leaving the Jags with one or two timeouts, the Colts leave Garrard and Co. a full compliment of timeouts with over a minute to go. Brilliant.

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PLZ!

Please fill out an application to work for the Colts coaching staff! That way when we come into situations like these, you can tell them to run the ball with the intent to score, since you have super powers in foresight, they will know that whatever play you recommend it is guaranteed to be successful. Come on really? The focus they go out there with is to score, then take time off the clock, but the scoring is first and foremost, and you sacrifice scoring for nothing. D needs to man up!

by Scooty4422 on Sep 22, 2008 3:31 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree

You’re right, throwing the ball and leaving them all that time was idiotic. Someone should be fired for that. It’s one thing to get outplayed, but the Colts had the game won and they blew it with bad play-calling, among other factors. One run play for a yard would have chewed up some time and most likely one of the following run plays would have scored and maybe left the Jags 15 seconds or so. But, with a missed throw, you’ve eaten up a wopping 2 or 3 seconds……stupid.

by Ayrshire on Sep 22, 2008 8:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Fire Manning?

So Manning should be fired? He made the calls. It was his decision to pass twice then run. So if you were in charge we’d be coming out of the bye week with Sorgi as our starter because Manning made the decision to score, and say it’s time for the D to step up. Please don’t go into coaching!

by Scooty4422 on Sep 22, 2008 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I understand your point

But I can’t say I agree. Just because you have the ball down on the two yard line with a minute to go doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be able to get the ball in the endzone. Case in point..

Besides, if Addai had run the ball in for the score on first down, it would have been the same predicament anyways.

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by JakeTheSnake on Sep 22, 2008 8:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

They didn't run the ball on 1st and 2nd down

because the D had 9 in the box (everyone but the CBs). Peyton’s going to check away from the run 9 times out of 10 when he sees that, and the one is only after he’s had a few pass plays to try to beat that D.

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by shake n bake on Sep 22, 2008 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Simmons

I’m convinced that Simmons might actually be right about this one. Every NFL team needs a frat boy in a backwards baseball cap and a Hollister muscle shirt with a big screen, an Xbox, and the latest copy of Madden on the sidelines to make these kind of calls.

“So, what’s the situation, brah?”
“1st and goal from the 2, 1:23 on the clock, down by 6.”
“Run it, brah.”

“So what’s the situation, brah?”
“4th and 3 from the 50.”
“Punt, brah.”

“So what’s the situation, brah?”
“3rd and 10 on our own 34.”
“Single back, 88 right, PA 218 Marvin, brah.”

Admittedly, this guy would end up overrruling Del Rio half the time, because he gets by on stupid luck most of the time.

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by MonkeyBusiness on Sep 22, 2008 9:43 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This sounds like the worst idea in the world

Frat boy would treat the game like Madden.

“4th and 22 from our own 6”
“Gotta go for it here. Can’t let my friends think I’m a pussy!”

“3rd and 1”
“THROW IT DEEP! GOTTA THROW IT DEEP! EVERYTIME THROW IT DEEP!”

by BearsNecessity on Sep 22, 2008 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm just saying

that I’d rather take the chance on having 4 downs to run it into the endzone and chew up some clock, than leave the Jags that much time…..especially, when all they needed was a field goal. And, wouldn’t you know…….a run play was what scored. But, unfortunately, the earlier pass plays stopped the clock. And, my worst fear was realized when the Jags got the ball back. Anyway, just my opinion, but huge mistake in my view. However, the week after the bye week the Colts will be 2-2 and gaining momentum. Things will get brighter. Every week they’ll score more and more points.

by Ayrshire on Sep 22, 2008 10:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't know anymore

I’m lost at this point everyone is saying we should of ran and not passed. Ok well on third down when we ran we scored. If we had ran on first down we would have probably scored, since we were averaging at least 5 yards a carry for the game. Thus giving us no more time. But what your actually saying is more complicated than that. Not only did we want them to run. We wanted them to run 4 straight times getting a half yard at a time taking the maximum amount of time off the clock. Something tells me if it were that simple people that are paid to know the answers to these situations would have just done that. It’s never that simple. You take what you can when you can. It was up to the D to stop them…Just like if we had won the game, it would have fallen on the Jags D for not stopping us. Period!

by Scooty4422 on Sep 22, 2008 3:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

#1 - Score.

We needed the TD. I can see it now, had we run the ball and fumbled or failed to get into the end zone, everyone would be complaining that we run.

We had the score and were ahead. At that point in the game, the ONLY thing that mattered was for the Defense to keep the Jags under control and away from field-goal field position.

The interceptions, bad non-calls, and our abadonment of the running game were all history in the last minute of the game. The D needed to step up, and they failed to do so. That’s just my opinion.

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by peytonsthebest on Sep 22, 2008 4:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

there's no guarantee

we would have scored on first down with a pass or a run. If we score on a pass, great…..we’re up by one point. If we score on first down with a run, great as well. No time is really used up on either play. However, if both plays fail, it much better to have the clock ticking down on a run play versus a stopped clock on a pass play. We may have only gained a couple of feet on that first down had we run and not crossed the goal line, but I’m confident, with four plays, we would have eventually crossed the line. Passing the ball gives absolutely no chance for the clock to be eaten. Either you score right away, or you hardly burn off any time. I’m just saying that the odds of taking time off the clock and still eventually scoring are better with running it….especially with only a yard and a half to go and four downs. The last thing you want to do is give them time to come back for a field goal. And, yes, fumbles are always a risk, but so are interceptions with a pass. I think again, you have to go with probabilities. In my opinion it was one of the worst calls by a coaching staff I’ve ever seen. And, if Peyton called it and not the staff, the staff should have intervened and made the right decision.

by Ayrshire on Sep 22, 2008 6:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs