2nd and two changed the game!

[Shouright]

I give 0% credit to those statistical odds projections in football games, especially against Tom Brady and the Pats (and the refs) in their house. I get it you're content to just go for a FG and go up 17 early in the 3rd quarter and think that's enough to beat New England. Not me, I'd much rather try and go up 21.

But you're still not addressing the FACT that a 46 yard FG is VERY makeable. Where's the blame on Sturgis? I mean Tannehill AND Sherman did give him a shot at a FG that any FG kicker in the league should be able to make.

Sturgis deserves some blame, but I can't figure out why, when you're winning with time of possession and running the ball, you call two straight pass plays on 2nd and 2 and 3rd and 2. What happened to your philosophy, to your gameplan? You got Tom Brady over there on the bench, a quieted enemy stadium, and you find a way to breathe life back into them all, rather than going up three scores.

Make them win the game! Don't give it to them!

 

[Dolfan23]

Sturgis deserves some blame, but I can't figure out why, when you're winning with time of possession and running the ball, you call two straight pass plays on 2nd and 2 and 3rd and 2. What happened to your philosophy, to your gameplan? You got Tom Brady over there on the bench, a quieted enemy stadium, and you find a way to breathe life back into them all, rather than going up three scores.

Make them win the game! Don't give it to them!

If your offense can't convert with 2 chances to get 2 yards, by the run or the pass, the problem is not on the plays being called, it's on the execution. The first play was a great call that should have at the very least gotten us the ball at the 5 yard line but the QB and receiver read the defense differently. Even still, the ball hit Wallace in his hands and true elite WR's come down with that one most of the time. The second play Tannehill had less than 2 seconds to react because of how poorly Martin and Jerry reacted to the defensive pressure. Could we have run the ball on one or both of those plays, sure. Should we have, maybe. But to indict the play calling as the reason for failure without looking at the circumstances is IMO shortsighted.

I'll just never be okay with a play it safe and kick a FG type of offense. I'd rather lose games than win playing like that. We got more than enough of that in the Sparano Henning era and I'd stop watching the games for the first time in my life if we adopted that as our philosophy again.

 

[Shouright]

If your offense can't convert with 2 chances to get 2 yards, by the run or the pass, the problem is not on the plays being called, it's on the execution. The first play was a great call that should have at the very least gotten us the ball at the 5 yard line but the QB and receiver read the defense differently. Even still, the ball hit Wallace in his hands and true elite WR's come down with that one most of the time. The second play Tannehill had less than 2 seconds to react because of how poorly Martin and Jerry reacted to the defensive pressure. Could we have run the ball on one or both of those plays, sure. Should we have, maybe. But to indict the play calling as the reason for failure without looking at the circumstances is IMO shortsighted.

I'll just never be okay with a play it safe and kick a FG type of offense. I'd rather lose games than win playing like that. We got more than enough of that in the Sparano Henning era and I'd stop watching the games for the first time in my life if we adopted that as our philosophy again.

Precisely, and you're going to have problems with execution with a developmental QB commanding the offense, hence the need for a conservative approach when the situation calls for it.

And that doesn't mean the problems with execution are all the fault of the developmental QB, but rather that such problems are going to be less likely to be compensated for by the QB, which means that when you have a chance to win a game, you keep that chance intact, rather than risking giving it away.

It's hard enough to win games in this league with a developmental QB. When you have those chances, you can't squander them.