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That one play where Tanny decided to keep the clock going and not spike the ball only to waste around 25 seconds that resulted in an incompletion. That was that moment where after being 5 years in the league you'd learn to spike the ball and conserve time. Any thoughts on that play? I was upset and of course bad clock management...an extra 25 seconds would have helped.....
 
agreed, I do not think he was ever coached about those nuances. I think he will be more comfortable as he is coached that stuff like other top QBs who rush to the line after a suspected challenge play or when the opposing D is caught subbing personnel.
 
Tannehill arguably made the wrong decision there, but we didn't lose 25 seconds either. It would have taken at least ten seconds or more to line up just to spike the ball. And sometimes by running the play instead of spiking the ball you catch the defense on it's heels.
 
I think this is nitpicking. What SHOULD HAVE happened is the D should have shut out the Pats in the 2nd half. Then we would have had a chance to win it with a last second FG. Our run defense on the edge was atrocious. They kept running to Koa Misi's side...and making yards. If we can't shut out a team with their 3rd-string QB, then we didn't deserve to win.
 
I still don't understand the focus and blame game on that last drive. It's irrelevant and we have so much to fix right now, it's not even funny. Maxwell is definitely a fraud.
 
xSxPxHx said:
That one play where Tanny decided to keep the clock going and not spike the ball only to waste around 25 seconds that resulted in an incompletion. That was that moment where after being 5 years in the league you'd learn to spike the ball and conserve time. Any thoughts on that play? I was upset and of course bad clock management...an extra 25 seconds would have helped.....
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Did you see the drive before that when the D let a team missing their qb, backup qb, left tackle and star te bully them the whole way down the field and waste masses of time with the game on the line?
 
VBCheeseGrater said:
Or Parker should made an actual play on that TD pass.....am I the only one that thought he had a much better shot at that? Stills too on previous ball.
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Yeah was disappointed with Parker there but think he may just have been caught on his heels. Stills looked like he got outmuscled the throw before.
 
xSxPxHx said:
That one play where Tanny decided to keep the clock going and not spike the ball only to waste around 25 seconds that resulted in an incompletion. That was that moment where after being 5 years in the league you'd learn to spike the ball and conserve time. Any thoughts on that play? I was upset and of course bad clock management...an extra 25 seconds would have helped.....
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How about the defense making a stop with six minutes and 30 seconds left on the clock and not use up all of our timeouts.
 
Now Tannehill being blamed for 25 seconds when the defense wasted over 6 minutes on the patriots last drive alone by not stopping them.

Unreal logic.


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This is a lot of nitpicking over a "garbage time" drive.


Edit: Notice the quotes around the words garbage time. This was meant to be sarcasm for those that don't want to give any credit for a valiant effort.
 
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A spike would have helped give us another :10 +/-

Agree the D needed to gets a stop sooner but going 70 yards in 1:04 w no timeouts is hard. It is not impossible and teams like GB, Pitt, NE seem to be able to do it. If the script was flipped, and we left Brady (had he played) or even Griopplo 1:04 we'd have been screaming that we left too much time.

But I'm not going to bash Ryan for that drive. It was a good looking drive and we got in position for a shot at the EZ. I do think a spike may have helped get us closer but who knows. I think the play to Stills was the real story though. He comes up w that ball we are inside the 10. He didn't drive on that ball hard. The Parker play is a really a nit-pick whether you think Parker played it wrong or Tannehill threw it a little too far. It was a low % play. The Stills play was more makeable and we would have been in great shape had he pulled that in.
 
Danny Vermin said:
Or he could have completed the TD pass.
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21 posts in 3 years... what a valuable opinion

It looked to me like Parker was trying to track the ball still but could've tried to make a play a bit harder

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HopaLong said:
This is a lot of nitpicking over a "garbage time" drive.
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If you're competitive and still in the game trying for the win, that is NOT garbage time. But hey whatever
 
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