Commander's Classy On-Field Tribute to Taylor...

[MaineBoy]

Saw where the Skins only lined up 10 men on defense for the first play of the game against Buffalo in honor of Sean Taylor...I thought it was classy and reminded me of the "missing wingman" formation they use for some military funerals....

Unfortunately, The Bills ran and gashed the Skins for 21 yards on the play....maybe expecting the Bills to honor the Skins gesture by running a play for no yards would have been asking too much...

 

[THUMPER]

Saw where the Skins only lined up 10 men on defense for the first play of the game against Buffalo in honor of Sean Taylor...I thought it was classy and reminded me of the "missing wingman" formation they use for some military funerals....

Unfortunately, The Bills ran and gashed the Skins for 21 yards on the play....maybe expecting the Bills to honor the Skins gesture by running a play for no yards would have been asking too much...

I thought it was a cool thing to do too but you also have to remember that you are playing a professional football game and the other team's goal, and job, is not to honor your fallen but to win the game, which they did.

I don't fault the Bills for running a play and I don't fault the Commanders for lining up in a "missing man" formation.

 

[Maxmadden]

That might have been the difference in the game. Oh wait!!!!

 

[Mavs Man]

I thought it was a classy move, and it wasn't the reason they lost.

That series ended in a punt.

 

[Eddie]

Bills should have pulled a TE. But regardless, they didn't hurl it deep. Just a run up the gutt.

 

[Woods]

Bills should have pulled a TE. But regardless, they didn't hurl it deep. Just a run up the gutt.

Bellicheck would have called for a fly pattern :laugh1:

 

[Idgit]

Bills should have pulled a TE. But regardless, they didn't hurl it deep. Just a run up the gutt.

Bills should have hurled it deep. Stupid of the Commanders to take a player out to make a ceremonial gesture in a game they needed to win.

 

[superpunk]

Bills should have hurled it deep. Stupid of the Commanders to take a player out to make a ceremonial gesture in a game they needed to win.

It was the players decision. They wanted to make the gesture, I think it's fine. I'm not sure they cared either way yesterday.

What's comical is that Gibbs apparently had no idea that it was going to happen - it was something Greg Williams decided on.

Dysfunction.

 

[1fisher]

Bills should have hurled it deep. Stupid of the Commanders to take a player out to make a ceremonial gesture in a game they needed to win.

Boy, that one play REALLY cost them big time!

 

[Hostile]

It was the players decision. They wanted to make the gesture, I think it's fine. I'm not sure they cared either way yesterday.

What's comical is that Gibbs apparently had no idea that it was going to happen - it was something Greg Williams decided on.

Dysfunction.

How could Gibbs not know?

That organization is a mess.

 

[Mavs Man]

How could Gibbs not know?

That organization is a mess.

Either that, or Gibbs really is going senile.

 

[zrinkill]

What's comical is that Gibbs apparently had no idea that it was going to happen - it was something Greg Williams decided on.

I would not be surprised if they told Gibbs and he forgot ....

He acts like an old man with Alzheimer's.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Bills should have pulled a TE. But regardless, they didn't hurl it deep. Just a run up the gutt.

On Mike and Mike on ESPN, they said the Bills didn't know that the Skins only had 10 players on the field.

The Skins HC didn't even know about it and supposedly a little upset about it.

The only obligation the Bills had was to try to win the game.

 

[Idgit]

Boy, that one play REALLY cost them big time!

It's okay to do stupid things, then, as long as they don't cost you?

It's not classy--by definition--if it hurts your team. If I were the one being honored this way, I'd come back and haunt somebody.

 

[superpunk]

More on that.

10 MEN ON THE FIELD

Gibbs said after the game he did not speak with Gregg Williams about the decision to use 10 men at the start of the game. But Williams and Gibbs met in the coach's dressing room for about 7 minutes after the game, and Williams said he explained the decision to Gibbs after the game.

Gibbs told us he did not have a problem with Williams doing it - though you got the strong impression he would have preferred to have known before hand - and when asked if Gibbs was okay with the move Williams said: "Sure he is. Yep."

We have already covered the fact that Joe Gibbs did not know a fundamental football rule. Publicly, his players said they were to blame for not making more plays; privately, many veterans fumed and looked at it as another egregious error by Gibbs in a season full of them.

"Come on man, this is the NFL," one veteran said. "What coach don't know the rules?"

I think they're right on both counts. Make a few more plays. Put the ball in the end zone every once in a while from the red zone, and don't allow that 30-yard up the middle and you win the game. Regardless, your head coach has to know the rules and get it right in that situation, especially after all the fire drills with timeouts and 4th down calls and going for it inexplicably a week ago. Thus yet another home halftime lead goes bye-bye.

I asked about 10 players if they knew the rule and all said yes though most did not want to elaborate on the record. Kicker Shaun Suisham said no comment, but Pierson Prioleau and others said they knew the rule, but that decision did not cost the game. LB London Fletcher was the only person who said he was unaware of it.

"I didn't know it," Fletcher said. "In my 10 years in the league it's the first time I've seen that."

Prioleau said: "That's a rule I was aware of and everybody makes mistakes."

 

[JPM]

How could Gibbs not know?

That organization is a mess.

Hey ! You answered your own question. Bravo !

 

[Idgit]

How could Gibbs not know?

That organization is a mess.

This is astonishing to me, too. Especially since it had been talked about all week by their fans.

 

[1fisher]

It's okay to do stupid things, then, as long as they don't cost you?

It's not classy--by definition--if it hurts your team. If I were the one being honored this way, I'd come back and haunt somebody.

ding....ding... we have a winner!

 

[Danny White]

The Bills are fighting for a playoff spot, they don't owe the Redsk*n fans anything.

 

[joseephuss]

The Bills are fighting for a playoff spot, they don't owe the Redsk*n fans anything.

Plus how would the Bills even know that the Commanders were playing only 10 men as a tribute to Taylor? If they were not told about it before hand they would have know clue about it.

I thought it was a great tribute.