1:24 on the clock

[TimHortons]

f) QB can slip on the kneel down and fumble away the ball.

Probably shouldn't even hike it.

The sarcasm oozes from this post lol I love it

 

[Beast_from_East]

Winning this division this year won't mean much. Its just a ticket to a first round home playoff loss. Is that enough to bring Garrett back?

Afraid so.............Jerry can sell all of those "division champs" T-shirts and caps on the website for $39.99

Opie either wins the division (possibly by default) or he is gone.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Winning this division this year won't mean much. Its just a ticket to a first round home playoff loss. Is that enough to bring Garrett back?

Hey they can hang a banner & sell a few NFC EAST CHAMP tshirts.

Jerry would like that.

 

[TimHortons]

What about taking three kneel downs and then have Romo run around on 4th down and take a safety? How much time would be left?

Haha I can picture Romo hauling *** 70 yards back to our end zone getting chased by D lineman

 

[Wezsh0T]

Forget wasting time. I wanted a first down. A first down in this situation ices the game. No part of me thought that kicking a fg there would win the game. I believe Romo was arguing for this right before that last 3rd down play.

 

[links18]

Forget wasting time. I wanted a first down. A first down in this situation ices the game. No part of me thought that kicking a fg there would win the game. I believe Romo was arguing for this right before that last 3rd down play.

He was probably thinking back to 2006, when in a similar situation, Parcells/Payton had him roll out and hit a TE for a first down. Not going to happen with Garrett.

 

[links18]

Afraid so.............Jerry can sell all of those "division champs" T-shirts and caps on the website for $39.99

Opie either wins the division (possibly by default) or he is gone.

Hey they can hang a banner & sell a few NFC EAST CHAMP tshirts.

Jerry would like that.

Haha, I'd buy one if he had the stones to print NFC Least champs on it.

 

[Staubacher]

Forget wasting time. I wanted a first down. A first down in this situation ices the game. No part of me thought that kicking a fg there would win the game. I believe Romo was arguing for this right before that last 3rd down play.

He was. in the prior drive they passed on first and got a first down on PI. So of course they then run on 1st down and 2nd and 13

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Haha, I'd buy one if he had the stones to print NFC Least champs on it.

Funny. He & I posted at the same time about the shirts.

I bet some fans somewhere will do the NFC LEAST Thing.

 

[Blackspider214]

I don't agree with the kneel-down notion. With Detroit still possessing a timeout and us out of field-goal range prior to Tanner's penalty-inducing run, three kneel downs would have still left the need to punt and roughly 30 seconds on the clock. Plus, a run play inherently takes a few extra seconds off the clock than a kneel down.

With that said, I'm not surprised we found a way to muck it up. If anything, I'm surprised Tanner didn't find a way to run out of bounds on his run. Our situational football IQ remains incredibly suspect, lending to moments like those where Smith holds in a situation where seemingly his primary assignment is not to do just that.

FG position meant nothing at this time. We didn't need a FG. The precious time was important. Waste every second there was. Take a delay of game. And punt. And leave Detroit with maybe 25 seconds and on their 20 and no timeouts. Game over.

But we just keep finding ways to lose.

 

[NickZepp]

We played it right just got unlucky with a hold that stopped the clock Defense still lost it for us. Honestly the only coaching issues I had are the ones I've had all year. Defense is poorly coached and constantly out of position and just letting teams have pass yards. We need to fire the entire defensive staff at this point. It might have been a bad move to fire Ryan in retrospect even though I agreed with the move at the time But Dallas deserves better on defense than this ********.

 

[Ren]

Blaming the coach (who doesn't call plays) for a holding penalty on your LT when your HB tries to bounce a run outside is about as lowbrow as it gets

 

[jobberone]

A lot of people, including me, shouted at the TV for Garrett to kneel down on the 3rd and 14, there was no way they were going to get a first down running down the middle, only bad things could happen if they did. And guess what? One of those bad things happened, and we lost.

I can't state this enough, all we needed for a win was for the QB to take a knee.

You're entitled to your opinion. The play was called up the middle but he took it outside. But I still don't understand what the clamor is for a run up the middle. What can't happen with a run up the middle that would with a run to the outside? You people act as if there couldn't be a turnover or a penalty with a run up the middle. You don't take a knee there. You try to make the first down and end the damn game. What you don't do is stop the clock with a penalty. Smith screwed up not the coach.

 

[jobberone]

FG position meant nothing at this time. We didn't need a FG. The precious time was important. Waste every second there was. Take a delay of game. And punt. And leave Detroit with maybe 25 seconds and on their 20 and no timeouts. Game over.

But we just keep finding ways to lose.

How does a punt run 30 secs off the clock? They fair catch it if your punter can even punt from that distance. And you risk it getting blocked and run back. Most likely it goes in the EZ or out of bounds. The clock stops while the officials move the chains and get into position before blowing the ball in play.

This stuff has been explained to you all. Repeating the same thing over and over just makes me suspicious some of you are trolling.

 

[birdwells1]

I'd put the I
blame on Smith for the stupid holding penalty before I put it on Garrett for the play calling in that scenario.

Yeah Im far from a JG supporter but he did the right thing I put the blame on Smith, you have to be aware of your situation.

 

[birdwells1]

Smith may be a total idiot, but its the coaching staffs job to educate player on siIuational football. Of course, that's hard when the coaches themselves struggle with situational football.

Now I would agree with that, heck I didnt know that the clock stopped on a declined penalty within the last minutes of a game so Id bet that Smith didn't.

 

[Zman5]

There was 1:14 left when Detroit used their last time out after our second down play. Now we are left with 3rd and 14.
We have two choices here. We can go for the 1st down or just run off much time as possible.

If our intention is to go for the first down and end the game, run play with Tanner is one of the worst choices. We just ran the ball twice and lost 4 yards. So the play called was bad if our intention was to get the 1st down.


If our intention was to run out time, running a play is not the best choice. Kneeling is the better option since that eliminates the possibility of getting a penalty like we did. Once again coach made a wrong choice if our intention was to run the clock out.

I think they were trying to run the clock out which is not a bad thing. They just didn't choose the best option to do so. If they had kneel down, we would have probably burned 4 seconds from the kneel down play. We can then burn 45 seconds on the 4th down. Take a penalty then punt the ball and tried to pin them inside the 10 with only 25 seconds left.

 

[birdwells1]

if you decline a penalty, the clock should run

what a moronic rule

Yeah the competition committee needs to look at that.

 

[birdwells1]

Call me crazy, but with 12 seconds left I thought it was possible to get a throw down field & out of bounds then a field goal. Seems like they didn't have a plan for the last few seconds.

How many tos did we have left because I thought that to.

 

[JBell]

It was 3rd and 14 with 1:14 on the clock at the 35, let's say Tony takes the ball back some 10 yards to the 45 and kneels down taking some 7 or 8 seconds off the clock, that leaves 1:07 plus the 40 (you take the delay of game) that leaves 27 seconds before the punt. Say the punt takes 6 seconds and you leave Detroit at the 20 at best with 21 seconds without a TO. thats the ball game right there.

All we needed to win was for our QB to take a knee, how sad is that.

All we needed was for Tyron to not hold.