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One play call hurt Dolphins' near-perfect strategy

Agree completely - I did not like the play call at the time and it was ultra conservative in my view. There were other calls that wer questionable, but very few - only the Pat White plays to me were bizarre in both their call and execution. But the 3rd and 6 was basically saying, we are fine with the FG and we will stop Peyton from getting a score.
 
It's always valid to make such questions when things don't turn out "right." In hindsight the guy is right -- but a pick could have happened and what's the story then?
 
Agreed 100%, what a STUPID conservative play call to line up for a long FG. Made no sense at that point in the game the way we were converting 3rd downs to make that horrendous call.
 
Third Eye said:
Agree completely - I did not like the play call at the time and it was ultra conservative in my view. There were other calls that wer questionable, but very few - only the Pat White plays to me were bizarre in both their call and execution. But the 3rd and 6 was basically saying, we are fine with the FG and we will stop Peyton from getting a score.
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Unfortunately it was a problem in several games last season. The lack of aggressive play calling when we get in field goal range. Too many times we settled for field goals instead of trying to either get the first down to continue drives or going for the touchdown.
 
finner said:
It's always valid to make such questions when things don't turn out "right." In hindsight the guy is right -- but a pick could have happened and what's the story then?
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You don't play for what if's. You attack there and finish.

You go after it. In a game like that you can't be conservative.

Look where that protect the football and kick the three mentality got us.

We lost the damn football game anyway.
 
Finfang said:
You don't play for what if's. You attack there and finish.

You go after it. In a game like that you can't be conservative.

Look where that protect the football and kick the three mentality got us.

We lost the damn football game anyway.
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Well send in your resume and be OC.
 
This was definitely a retarded call. The Colts were giving a 10 yard cushion on the outside all game and never adjusted. The hitch just past the first down marker was open all day and they could have easily taken another easy first down.

The debacle of a two minute drill didn't help either.
 
agree completely, i was going mental when i saw that call. we were getting anything we wanted from that defense. we had converted 3rd downs all day. if we convert there, we could have gone on to score a touchdown, but more importantly, we could have killed more clock with the power running game, converted a few more first downs, and essentially scored the game winning points.
 
The way Manning had our offense, it was idioitic to run that play, and go for the FG.

Reminded me of Wanny days, it really got me sick. You play to win, end of story.
 
Geforce said:
Not only was it a conservative play call, it was a play the Colts had seen several times before.
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I can say I have one gripe with Pennington...I saw a couple times where he had chances to run to get yards...but he refuses to do so. Even the slowest QB can get 5-10 yds to get first downs...but he rather take a sack or throw the football away. I wonder if he fears another inury?
 
finner said:
It's always valid to make such questions when things don't turn out "right." In hindsight the guy is right -- but a pick could have happened and what's the story then?
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This has nothing to do with hindsight. It was a bad call AT THE TIME IT WAS MADE.
 
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