Sorry but I disagree 100%. Sure you can blame the loss on the fumbles but none of that happens if he didn't live in his fears. We went 5 wide and it was working beautifully, we went from being down late in the 2nd to up by 4 early in the 4th. Then what does Tomlin do? He takes the ball out of Ben's hands and goes conservative. No more 5 wide. Even Tony Home kept commenting on how Ben was reading and performing in the 5 wide sets. NO couldn't stop us. SO, we get up by 4 and start ******* running the damn ball. The result was a fumble. 5 wides there and we very well would have score to put the game away or at least make it a 7 point game. Then we get the ball back after Brees scored the go ahead TD and he still doesn't go 5 wide. We struggle to move the ball and JuJu ends up fumbling the ball to end the potential scoring drive (which we had another bad penalty go against us when a hold was called on JuJu for a 5 yard gain instead of a PI call to give them the spot foul and be in FG range. This all cost us another fumble and scoring opportunity. None of this would have been needed if Tomlin would not have lived in his fears and gone conservative with a 4 point lead on the road against a high powered offense. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
Let's not forget Tomlin did this against Cleveland and we held on for a tie. He also did it in at least one other game that cost us. Again, sure you can say the turnovers should have never happened or the horrific penalty calls or lack thereof cost us the game but we had the chances and the biggest reason we lost was cool shades going conservative and living in his house full of fears.
