What was he thinking???? Patriots defense gets kicked in the balls by their coach

[Duke41]

The bottom line is that the season is far from over. At worst this costs our boys a shot at having home field advantage for the play-offs. The Pats will be back in Indy in 9 weeks or so. I gaurantee you coach will not make the same mistake twice.

[luds]

I'm not listening to sports radio all week and I'm just going to put that one behind me. It's sucked enough watching it happen nevermind focusing on the negativity that will surround it this week. I shouldn't have even opened this thread.

[Saltheart]

Moroney fumbling the ball turned the tide for the colts but we still should have won.

It takes a lot more time or way more risky passes to move the ball 80 yards instead of 30. If we punted we may have even gotten inside the twenty yard line so maybe more than 80 yrads with 2 min and a timeout. It wasn't like the sudden death field goal situation , they needed a TD .

I also wondered about the button hook pattern being so shallow. That kind of pass is almost indefenseable but should be like 5 to 8 yards past the line of scrimmage , not 2 , right at the first down line.

Nobody will convince me that it was anything but the worse call possible. If I'm on the defensive squad , I have to think that its a slap in the face that the coach just doesn't think they are any good. So in addition to the lose of the game the D takes a big confidents hit.

Do I want to fire him??? Of course not. Nobody said he wasn't the best coach out there. He just blew that call and he blew it real badly! Brady deserved that win. Bill took it away from him , not Manning!

Its been exciting football this year though. Each game almost anything can happen instead of a nearly sure win like in 2007. Very exciting for the fans when each game is a real contest.

[Dad 818]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

It takes a lot more time or way more risky passes to move the ball 80 yards instead of 30. If we punted we may have even gotten inside the twenty yard line so maybe more than 80 yrads with 2 min and a timeout. It wasn't like the sudden death field goal situation , they needed a TD .

Colts last 2 drives before 4th & 2

5 plays 78 yards 2:04
6 plays 81 yards 1:49

Defense was gassed. BB knew it.

And I am pretty sure Belichick doesn't give a sh!t what Rodney and Tedy think anymore.

[MarshCappa]

Originally Posted by luds

I'm not listening to sports radio all week and I'm just going to put that one behind me. It's sucked enough watching it happen nevermind focusing on the negativity that will surround it this week. I shouldn't have even opened this thread.

I hear ya! I'm not going to listen to the radio much now either. it will be over anyalized and beat to death until the next win. That's going to be the hard part is winning the next game and putting this in the rear veiw mirror. I still think NE is the better team over the colts. It's a bitter pill to swallow but they have to move on and win the next game.

[Mike P]

When they first broke the huddle, I thought that they were going to try to draw Indy offside. When they called time-out, I thought that someone up in the booth brought Belichick to his senses, and that they were going to punt.

I was kind of surprised that they left the offense on the field when they came out of the time out, and when they actually snapped the ball, I was like, "holy %$%$%$%$, they're really going for it".

But thinking back--if they were going to try to draw the Colts offside inside that palace of bedlam, Brady would have been under center, not in the gun.

[ecduzitgood]

Have faith! I know a guy with a girlfriend that knows a guy who's cousin said his buddies x-wifes sister is seeing the man in charge of laundry at Lucas Oil Stadium and he found this in Peyton's underwear after sundays game and is going to sell it to finance his early retirement. So next game we should see a difference in Peyton's performance.