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I can't understand for the life of me, why professional football coaches don't understand situational football.

Falcons had the ball in FG range. 3 runs, and a FG kick seals the game. They pass, get a holding call, then a sack. Now they get to watch the Patriots hoist the Lombardi.

This is the worst case of not recognizing situational football since the Seahawks decide to throw on 1st and goal. Atrocious that 2 teams lack of situational football knowledge gives the Pats 2 Superbowl wins....
 
Cope said:
I can't understand for the life of me, why professional football coaches don't understand situational football.

Falcons had the ball in FG range. 3 runs, and a FG kick seals the game. They pass, get a holding call, then a sack. Now they get to watch the Patriots hoist the Lombardi.

This is the worst case of not recognizing situational football since the Seahawks decide to throw on 1st and goal. Atrocious that 2 teams lack of situational football knowledge gives the Pats 2 Superbowl wins....
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It is amazing but then it's a hell of a lot harder to make the outcome of the game the way the nfl wants it, if the coaches actually coached.



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Couldn't have said it better myself
 
No kidding. I could've got paid millions to coach a ****** game too
 
MTC said:
No kidding. I could've got paid millions to coach a ****** game too
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I thought you got paid millions to ..................................................what the fak do you do?????





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Cope said:
I can't understand for the life of me, why professional football coaches don't understand situational football.

Falcons had the ball in FG range. 3 runs, and a FG kick seals the game
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I was screaming for them to take a knee 3 times and kick the FG - 31-20 with 5 minutes left - game over!

Atlanta SUCKS!

I hope there will be rioting
 
Hell they could've taken 3 knees and the refs would've still thrown a hold on two of them.

But yeah, run three times, and not wide where you can lose yards and your OLinemen start reaching, bring a FB in and just pound it, kill almost two mins and kick a FG
 
Know nothings always scream about being aggressive. Sometimes the conservative route is the correct route. Second down at the 20. No way should you be passing the ball. Run the ball, and kick a short fg with less than 3 minutes on the clock to take an 11 point lead. If NE can overcome that, hats off to em.
 
Cope said:
I can't understand for the life of me, why professional football coaches don't understand situational football.

Falcons had the ball in FG range. 3 runs, and a FG kick seals the game. They pass, get a holding call, then a sack. Now they get to watch the Patriots hoist the Lombardi.

This is the worst case of not recognizing situational football since the Seahawks decide to throw on 1st and goal. Atrocious that 2 teams lack of situational football knowledge gives the Pats 2 Superbowl wins....
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Your analysis is 100% spot-on correct. Never forget, excluding Marv Levy, Bill Walsh, and perhaps Charles Henry Noll, football coaches as a collective group are far from Rhodes Scholars.
 
They like to play the " they think we're going to do this, so we'll do this" crap
 
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Know nothings always scream about being aggressive. Sometimes the conservative route is the correct route. Second down at the 20. No way should you be passing the ball. Run the ball, and kick a short fg with less than 3 minutes on the clock to take an 11 point lead. If NE can overcome that, hats off to em.
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There is a time to be aggressive. They made a very aggressive play to Jones along the sidelines to win the game. That was stupid. Not aggressive. And even after the sack then you double down with another to take the hold. Quick screen. Back flat, TE flair. Spread them out and run draw. You needed 3 yards for a 47 yard field goal. You take the hold. At the point they punted I knew the game was over.
 
I can't link stuff sorry but I just saw Shanahan's presser. He was completely delusional. He is talking simultaneously about wanting to score. Get a field goal and then he mixes in a whole lot of **** about the back being hurt and not wanting to kick a 50 yard field goal
WTF is he talking about. You could have run fullback dive two more times.
 
Cope said:
I can't understand for the life of me, why professional football coaches don't understand situational football.

Falcons had the ball in FG range. 3 runs, and a FG kick seals the game. They pass, get a holding call, then a sack. Now they get to watch the Patriots hoist the Lombardi.

This is the worst case of not recognizing situational football since the Seahawks decide to throw on 1st and goal. Atrocious that 2 teams lack of situational football knowledge gives the Pats 2 Superbowl wins....
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Yeah I couldn't believe it either. Hell even Tomlin possibly wouldn't have even screwed that up.
 
This goes to a point that I have been trying to make.

Everybody rips Tomlin. Rightfully so in some cases.

But right now, it is Belechick and everybody else is way behind. Its just the way it is. The Steelers would fire Tomlin and bring in some hotshot coach, he would become just the next guy for Beechick to beat.
 
Falcons produce a choke job for the ages

The Atlanta Falcons will never live down the worst choke job in NFL history

"Down 25 points," Brady told reporters, "it's hard to imagine us winning."

Fans, media and historians will spend the offseason unpacking the second half of this game. Among the first places they should look: a key sequence late in the fourth quarter.

Leading 28-20 with 4:40 remaining, the Falcons had a first down at the Patriots' 22-yard line and a great opportunity to make it a two-score game. The Patriots had found their rhythm on offense, but it's debatable whether they would have had enough time to score twice.

The Falcons' playcalling at that point was, well, unexpected -- and that's being kind to offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. They missed a huge opportunity to seal the game.

Shanahan called a pass on second and third downs. The first resulted in a 12-yard sack, and the second was overturned by a holding penalty. On the next play -- third-and-33! -- Shanahan called another pass that fell incomplete. The Falcons lost 23 yards on two plays, were forced to punt and drained only 1:10 off the clock.

https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation...uce-a-choke-job-for-the-ages-in-super-bowl-li
 
Agreed. I have to (puke) give the Pats a lot of credit for coming back, but this is 100% more a case of Atlanta losing it then NE winning it. I was SCREAMING at the TV "Why are you passing the ******* ball??" on two straight drivers by the Falcons, and that lost the game. At NE's 22, they could've knelt down three times, run off over a minute and a half, and kicked a FG, game over. No, instead they get completely moronic and knock themselves out of FG range and stop the clock. They deserved to lose.
 
Tape said 2 weeks ago that if Tom Brady was asked what defense he would like the Pittsburgh Steelers to deploy in the AFCC it would have been exactly what Keith Butler drew up.

If one were to ask Belichick what he would like the Falcons to do when they are at the 22 yard line at that point of the game, Dark Hoodie would have said Have them attempt to throw a pass with a deep dropback that a sack would move them out of FG range.

Oh yeah.......What is the one thing Seattle cannot do when they are at the Goal Line in the waning moments of lowB repuS 49.......and what do they do?

I have often asked why is the NFL perfectly content with the sorry state of its officiating? The logical answer was that they need a certain level of incompetence for cover. Officiating is how they can gain control of the game.

Are we to believe that every coach is this inexplicably stupid?

Roger Goodell, Bob Kraft, and the New England Patriots are still trying to bury their Original Sin and they have killed football for me and for future generations.

Hey Guys..........what did Santa bring you this year..........

 
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I honestly don't think officiating had anything to do with this game. That one drive with three 3rd down defensive penalties against the Falcons pissed me off, but all three were correct calls. The Falcons simply **** the bed.
 
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/02/sea...er-bowl-malcolm-butler-play-clal-pete-carroll

Hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch and win the lowB repuS
By: Chris Chase | February 1, 2015 10:49 pm


12, 11, 12, 13.


Those are Marshawn Lynch’s touchdown totals in his four full seasons in Seattle. The last two years, he’s led the league in rushing TDs. He’s a short-yardage master, Earl Campbell with grillz, John Riggins in gold-plated cleats. Hand him the ball, put six defenders on his back and Marshawn Lynch could still rumble for three yards.

So when Seattle had 2nd-and-goal from the New England one-yard line with 20 seconds left in lowB repuS XLIX, it was obvious the ball was going to Lynch. Everyone knew it. The Seahawks were three feet away from back-to-back lowB repuSs and it was pretty much all over but the confetti. With three chances from the one-yard line (and a timeout), there was no way Lynch wouldn’t score and Seattle wouldn’t be celebrating its second-straight lowB repuS, while handing Tom Brady and Bill Belichick their third-straight lowB repuS loss. Lynch wasn’t going to get stuffed three times in a row. It was a virtual impossibility.

But remarkably, amazingly and mind-bogglingly, instead of going to their workhorse, Seattle called a bizarre pick-play in which Russell Wilson, lined up in a shotgun and standing a few feet from Lynch, tried to hit Ricardo Lockette on a quick slant. New England’s Malcolm Butler, a rookie free agent out of West Alabama, stepped in front of Lockette and picked off the ball. Seattle snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and New England had an improbable win that will make fans finally forget about David Tyree.

Twenty minutes later it’s still hard to comprehend. Twenty years later it will still be hard to comprehend. How could Seattle opt for a pass play on the one-yard-line instead of feeding the ball to a guy whose nickname is Beast Mode?

On NBC, Cris Collinsworth was apoplectic.

“I’m sitting here and I absolutely cannot believe that play call. If I lose the lowB repuS because Marshawn Lynch can’t get it in from the one-yard line, so be it. So be it. But there is no way — I just don’t believe the call.”

Rodney Harrison said it was one of the worst coaching decisions he’s seen in his 21 years in the game. Tony Dungy said he was “shocked” when the ball went in the air. These opinions aren’t the easy hindsight ones analysts often make. The decision to pass was so bizarre and awful and crazy that it deserves every bit of criticism it will get from here to eternity.

They say it’s a game of inches. In this case, it was a game of 36 inches and one inane decision that changed the course of NFL history.

One of the worst coaching decisions in football history helps rewrite the NFL record book. Instead of repeating, Seattle is a one-and-done champion, just like the past nine lowB repuS winners. Instead of falling to an impressive, but ultimately disappointing, 3-3 in lowB repuS play, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick get their fourth championships, tying Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll. The QB-coach tandem was already going down as one of the all-time greats. The ill-advised pick play and the decision to ignore Marshawn Lynch may help turn Brady and Belichick into the best ever.
 
That's where Ernie comes in I think. He is the first layer. He is up in the box and has a very good idea what you will do based upon your personel groupings. In that case considering the time left in the game and the guys on the field, they had Butler in the game and had practiced against that play. As I remember Belicheat didn't call timeout in an attempt to preserve clock because he knew they would run then. He essentially put Seattle in its own bind.
 
In a way last night's play is even more perplexing to me. Those throws at the 22 are beyond unimaginable. 11 points with under 5 minutes basically ensures they would need to recover an onside kick to tie/win.
 
Does Ryan get any blame for holding onto the ball in that situation? He had a good 5-6 seconds and you could literally see the sack coming before it happened as the pocket collapsed, yet he hung onto the ball when he had a few seconds to just throw it away. I feel like if that was Ben, he'd get slammed for this but I haven't heard one person blame Ryan.

I agree it was horrible play calling but Ryan should get some blame for not playing situational football as well. Get rid of the ball to prevent the sack and we're most likely talking about a Falcons win. That's QB 101 in that situation.
 
Falcons called an awful game, offensively in the second half.
 
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