I have often stood up for Fiedler when he deserved it, but today was just too much. Guess what? It wasn't just Fiedler who stunk up the joint! Feeley didn't look much better. Sure, he moved the team down the field and scored but that was with us down by 17 with 6 minutes left! They (Titans) were GIVING AJ & Co. the underneath! When you are down by 17 in the 4th with 6 minutes to go, YOU HAVE TO GO DOWN FIELD WITH IT! We had nothing to lose at that point. We had everything to gain. A catch, a defensive pass interference or a touchdown and suddenly it's a different game with more time left on the clock. Bottom line is that Fiedler was terrible and Feeley wasn't much better. Something has to give.
Overall, with the exception of Randy McMichael and Lamar Gordon, this entire team sucked! It sucked so bad that I thought I was in a porn flick instead of JRS! The O-line either missed too many blocks or they just didn't have the guts to blow the defense off of the ball when it counted! When they weren't failing at their assignment, they were either holding or getting called for a false start! A FALSE START! ON THE CENTER OF ALL PEOPLE!!!! Jeezuz! HOW DOES A CENTER BLOW THE SNAP COUNT?!?!?! And one other question while I am at it.........WHO CALLED THE TIMEOUT DURING OUR EXTRA POINT ATTEMPT?!?! WHAT A FRIGGIN' WASTE!
Our defense showed signs of life but as it turns out those signs were often followed by seizures. How can our defense give up running yards at 3 and 4 yards a pop? Why is it that we STILL get burned over the middle with short passes? Teams have been doing it to us for years and they are STILL doing it! When will SOMEONE ACCOUNT FOR THE GUYS COMING OVER THE MIDDLE?!?! I would love to praise our defense but there were just too many breakdowns (at least as many as there were favorable plays). I will cut them some slack though as I am sure that they were exhausted from being on the field all day (THANKS OFFENSE).
As if all of this were already bad enough for fans to have to endure, the Refs had to add insult to injury. TWO bad calls on their part. First, the Titans player WAS out of bounds but was GIVEN the reception to keep a Titan drive alive. Next, Booker (I believe it was him) DID catch the ball, tuck it, turn and THEN the ball was knocked out resulting in the fumble that was recovered by Chambers (good heads-up play on Chris' part).......... but wait! Noooooo, although it was CLEAR on the Jumbo-tron, they blew yet ANOTHER call by calling it an incompletion, making it 4th down and forcing us to punt! Get real! Someone remind me what instant replay is for again? Well folks, I can tell you that today it was only used to prolong the fans suffering as NO call that was challenged went our way (two of those clearly being bad calls).
Dave, you have an undisciplined team that DOES NOT respect you. Your coaching staff DOES NOT respect you. The Officials DON'T even respect you! As for us fans, we have had our better days and they were clearly before you and Jimmy ran this team into the ground. I, for one, can hardly wait until the last of the Jimmy Johnson legacy is GONE.
There are a lot of words that I would love to use to describe todays game but most would get me banned. So, I will just use PATHETIC.
*Note: For those people that are going to jump on this as a "fairweather fan" post, I have been a fan all of my life and I reserve the right to call things as I see them. In short, don't waste your time or mine.
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