Personnel decisions that will hurt us this year

[beanh8er]

I'm not calling a fade on 4th down and inches no matter what. I don't care if I have Brandon Marshall, Roberto Wallace, Plaxico Burress, or anybody else. I don't like the playcall.

There's literally an entire page of plays that are higher percentage and make more sense in that situation.

Even still, Henne gave Hartline no chance to make a play on the football with the throw. If you're going to call that low percentage of a play, at least throw it up for grabs where Hartline has a chance to make a play on the football. Henne threw it where it wouldn't get intercepted if Hartline couldn't get it..

That's fine on 1st down... 2nd down... even 3rd down... but not on 4th down.

Oh no I agree 100%. My favorite play on the goal line is a slant. Best route you can run on the goal line IMO. The blame is not 100% on Henne for making a bad throw there. I think a lot was on Hartline for jumping way too early. He was coming down as the ball was going over his head. I think there was a chance that would've been good if Hartline keeps running and jumps at the right time.

 

[sphinky's bat kid]

Lex Hilliard got the tough 1 on the 4th and 1...don't ask me why we didn't call his number at the goal line. Polite wasn't getting the job done in the preseason. He was stuffed more often than he succeeded. And we have Larry Johnson...why not give him a shot to try and power it in?

Hind sight is 20/20. We can second guess all these decisions all season long...won't help what happened yesterday. All we can do is hope the front office checks their egos and does the right thing going forward. Get some help for this team. There are a lot of veteran free agents that weren't signed because clubs didn't want to guarantee their contracts for the year...time to do some shopping.

Why would anyone think this front office will change or get better?. I want to believe but I just don't see it happening. Time for a change.

 

[sphinky's bat kid]

No worries man, at least we still got Austin Spitler at ILB. He's good enough to make up for every deficiency along the linebacking corps.

Now that's funny I don't care who you are.