Sgt. Largent":74osgerw said:
mikeak":74osgerw said:
Passing up the middle into congestion with an empty backfield from the 1 on 1st through 3rd down is ALWAYS a bad call.
It's not always a bad call. Teams throw goalline slants all the time..........hell the Niners and Walsh wrote the book on how to legally pull off the pick/slant at the goalline, and the Patriots run it ad naseum in 20 different formations.
I agree, I would have also preferred that if we were going to pass to run a lower risk pass. But then again, we didn't exactly have the WR corp to pull off an endzone slant or fade route either, especially against Browner and Revis.
But sorry, not ALWAYS a bad call.
Fair enough, but I would also make the argument that when you are passing to Richard Lockette up the middle then you also don’t have the WR corps to pull off that move.....
Which brings it full circle to lookin at some passing percentage for goal line plays is irrelevant because what matters is how the team was built and what type of pass play was called
I firmly believe we ran out there with an
empty backfield group of players convinced that NE would use a timeout and we wanted them to burn one. When that didn’t happen we didn’t want to use ours nor did we have the right players for a run play so the pass play as called is kind of what we had left.