It's fun watching Junc flounder. Hehehe.
Forgive my spelling. This was sent from my phone.
Yes I am floundering b/c you hate the Jets.
Again, you don't know that. I believe the Jets were playing to win the game. That was the Jets 2nd OT possession and there was over 5:00min (Not 3) left when they attempted the kick. Even if they don't attempt the kick, who says that they would have been able to hold SL for a 3rd time in OT had they punted instead? We can both speculate all day, but it doesn't matter. All that matters is we know they lost. With that loss, they had to rely on Buff to lose in order to make it. There is no getting around it.
It only matters when you know better. You know it wasn't 5 and you still exaggerate the numbers to try and help your argument. The only thing asked of the Jets was to win. That was the only thing that they could control. They needed some help and came within 1 point of getting it. None of it matters anyway becasue they were already eliminated by the Dolphins. There is no getting around that either.
We are pretty much repeating the same things over and over, so I am going to move on. If you want to continue, you can answer these two questions for me:
Who mathematically eliminated the Jets?
Did it matter if the 2004 Bills won or lost against Pitt in regards to the Jets clinching a playoff birth?
I don't expect an answer other than "Jets took care of business" and "They wouldn't have made it anyway", so I am moving on. :up:
I do know it b/c it was discussed at the time and common sense tells me that as well.
My mistake, the play by play logs at NFL.com show the time when a team takes over not when the drive ends so I thought they took over w/ 3 mins left. Either way that late in the game they aren't kicking that long of a FG knowing you need a win OR a tie to clinch. It makes more sense to punt w/ 5 mins than 3 b/c you know if you get a stop you will be near midfield w/ more time to play.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playbyplay?gameId=250102014&period=5
If they punt at worst SL gets the ball at their 20, at best they are inside the 10.
Again, I realize this was the biggest Miami win in the last decade but we weren't going to the playoffs either way.
we wouldn't have attempted that FG if we didn't know Buf had lost.
all of this stuff is meaningless. We made it in 2004 and won a playoff game, we wouldn't have made it either way in '08 or '11.