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11-10-2009, 06:23 AM
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11-10-2009, 08:43 AM
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I mean, what this boils down to was we were willing to trade potentially turning the ball over on the 2 yardline so we could run 5 extra seconds off the clock. That's a terrible tradeoff.
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11-10-2009, 08:59 AM
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man, i don't know how anyone can defend what the texans' coaches did on this one. if there is even a 1% chance it could be overturned on a challenge you do everything you can to avoid that. especially when you are down 13 to the colts IN indy. not to mention that was the first drive they actually moced the ball. the only people who didn't think that they should snap the ball before the 2 minute warning was the texans sidelines . . .or i should say the coaches. dunta said in an interview that there were several players on the texans' sideline yelling at them to snap the ball as well because it was too close to chance
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11-10-2009, 09:01 AM
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11-10-2009, 10:49 AM
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what I heard Coach Kubiak also clarify on 610 Monday evening, is they felt like the safety who Moats was on top of, touched the ball while he was out of bounds, ie. the ball was touched out of bounds and that established the fumble out of bounds.
If they are correct on the out of bounds touch, then it is defensible and refs blew it. I guess film is sent to league for review. And, that would be consistent with the call on the field at the time, which was overturned. Other than that, hope it's a good learning experinece for all in the future. And, we need to stop turning over the ball, hard to win if you loose the turnover battle.
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11-10-2009, 01:10 PM
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What concerns me is that we continue to make these gaffs. Why can't we be more on top of the situation? And I didn't have to use hindsight on the play. I saw Moats with his elbow flying and started thinking, here we go again. The ball started coming out right then ,he rolled over Bethea, the ball bounced off Moats middle, but stayed in bounds. The other defender saw what happened, quickly jumped back in bounds, by which time the ball had wriggled onto the white line for the endzone, and picked it up. Weird, but that is the reason Indy got it on the 20 as a touchback. Kubiak and his crew just blew the time afterwards, resulting in Indy getting the ball.
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11-10-2009, 04:16 PM
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Hmm, I guess it is just my perception, I think the coaching decisions in general are better this year and getting better all the time. We seem to be learning what plays work on offense and defense. We seem to be making more good calls when we toss the flag. Clock management seems to be improving. I'm not sure this particular scenario has ever come up before for any coach, exactly as presented anyways.
Overall game management comes with a maturing staff and players both, being together for a while. Maybe we need a rule like a coach has 1 minute to throw the red flag, after that it is the same as the next play has been run. this time it took a long time to get the red flag thrown. And, you guys could also complain about all the bad ref's calls. How about the horse collar on JJ they didn't call? How about motion penalty they called about 20 seconds after play was over rather than as play started.
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11-10-2009, 10:24 AM
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I just don't see it as the boneheaded play some of you do. IMO, it was just a little perfect storm of bad fortune.... Quote:
The deal is, what can you do about it now? If you're the Texans, you learn from it and move on...
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11-10-2009, 11:04 AM
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Of course, there's nothing we can do about it now other than look at an important notch in the L column and hope we can steal one from them at home. As for learning, how long does Kubiak et al need to figure this stuff out? IMO, this was modern-day NFL Football 101. If there's any doubt, get up and snap the damn ball and let the chips fall where they may!! There shouldn't have been any thought to it. It should have been common reaction. Judging by the fact Schaub let ~7 seconds or so run off the clock while standing there with the offense lined up at the LOS, the Colts were not prepared to throw the flag until we gave them time to look at it. I don't know... I can understand how Kubiak and crew screwed it up, and yes, there's noting we can do about it now, but it's frustrating nontheless. Last edited by popanot; 11-10-2009 at 11:10 AM.
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11-10-2009, 11:15 AM
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I guess my point is that this is just the latest in a fairly long line of screwups by the coaching staff. Also, I try my best not to be a Monday morning QB who complains about a call only after it doesn't work. However, in this case, I (and apparently a lot of other people) knew, in real time, that Moats may have fumbled and were screaming at the TV to snap the ball. This wasn't hindsight.
Sadly, this isn't the first time I've screamed at my TV for the Texans to do something. Reminds me of the Jags game last year when I was screaming for them to call a timeout when we had our punt unit on the field when the Jags had their starting offense out there. I don't claim to be smarter than Kubes and the rest of the staff. That's why it is so mindboggling to me that they don't see the stuff that even I can see.
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11-10-2009, 12:15 PM
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Coaching screwups, bad play calls, misuse of the clock - stuff like that happens to all coaching staffs. You hope your team makes as few blunders as possible. (How about the Colts calling timeout and giving K Brown a second chance on the missed the FG? Or taking the ball out of Peyton's hand and letting Reggie Wayne chunk it? How dumb does that look?) You have to get use to a little bit of it.... Doesn't mean you have to like it - but you should be able to tolerate a certain amount... I don't place this particular incident squarely on the coaches - rather it was a "team" fail. Moats/Schaub/someone other than a few voices on the sidelines could have said "f*** it, we gotta run a play now". Of course, I say this in hindsight....
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11-10-2009, 12:36 PM
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Also, you're right that reasonable minds could differ as to whether it was a fumble, but that's kinda the point. If there is even a small chance that you are wrong, you can't risk it. I don't care if the coaches think it was a fumble because that should not be what they were deciding. Put another way, their job wasn't to give their ruling on the fumble, because they don't have any ability to make that call anyway. Their job was to decide whether the ruling was in some way questionable and suspectible to review. I don't see how anyone could come away from the replay and not realize it was at least possibly reviewable. At that point, you do everything you can to avoid the review, regardless of how you think the review might ultimately come out because you can't take the chance.
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11-10-2009, 04:51 PM
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if they snap it, the worst thing that could have happened is they scored immediately and left a few extra seconds on the clock for indy. if they let it run down and were wrong, they give up the ball when they had it on the 2 freaking yard line Last edited by cadams; 11-10-2009 at 04:56 PM.
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11-10-2009, 04:53 PM
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if they snap it, the worst thing that could have happened is they scored immediately and left a few extra seconds on the clock for indy. if they let it run down and were wrong, they give up the ball when they had it on the 2 freaking yard line
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11-10-2009, 04:47 PM
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11-10-2009, 07:14 PM
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--------------------- Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoitRyfqmUA Interesting that the announcers didn't mention fumble until the different replay angles started showing.... Check out the Colt tackler - out of bounds? Or does it matter? I want to hear what Mike Pereira says on this one....
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11-10-2009, 09:00 PM
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Arky,
At this point, I think it's safe to say that we must agree to disagree. However, there have been reports that Dunta said after the game that several players on the sideline wanted to run the play to avoid a potential challenge. If this is true, your claim that the players didn't think it was close simply isn't true. If you have some quotes from players, please post as I would like to see them. As for Pereira's ruling, little good it will do us. But, yet again, that's the point. People make mistakes and everyone knows it. We didn't have to give them the chance to make it. Finally, the explanations appear to have evolved some since Sunday. First, Moats didn't fumble, then he was out-of-bounds, and finally, they thought the Colt player touched it while he was out-of-bounds. For the booth to see all of that suggests they were studying the replay like it was the Zapruder film. Again, I think that makes my point. If their final opinion required going through 3 steps; i.e., (1) yes, Moats fumbled, (2) while he was in bounds, but (3) the ball glanced off the defender's arm while he was out-of-bounds, that is just too damn close to leave to chance.
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11-10-2009, 09:39 PM
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Two thing have come out that clearly demonstrate that the reffs blew it.
1. There is a still photo that clearly shows the defender under moats laying out of bounds and his hand/arm is touching the ball. - Ball out of bounds by rule. 2. There is a youTube that has sound. It clearly shows/demonstrates that the reffs blew the ball dead well before the player picked up the ball. - End of play by rule. Add to all that the reffs said it was out of bounds no one thought anything of it. It took 3-4 replays before the guys in the booth were even sure it wasn't out of bounds. The first review didn't happen until 5-6 seconds before the 2 Min. warning and Matt is walking back towards the sideline per the coaches request. They were trying to take as much time off the clock as possible because they didn't want PeyPey to have to much time. By the time the booth had enough info, the 2 min. was in play and the Colts had enough time to see enough reviews. Did anyone note that they weren't any to sure about throwing the red flag and took max time to reach a decision? It wasn't near the cut and dried situation some seem to think it was. These people calling for a quick play and blaming people for not doing it are just too full of themselves thinking that is what they would have done if they were on the field and not on the couch.
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11-10-2009, 09:39 PM
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-------------------- I'm done with this until Pereira has his say...  Edit: Thank you, edo, that's what I've been trying to say.
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11-11-2009, 08:48 AM
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again, the point isn't whether anyone thought it was a fumble or not. the point is that if there was a chance that a red flag could be thrown and you are that close to the end zone, then you run a play to make sure you can keep the ball instead of worrying about leaving an extra couple of seconds on the clock.
further, arky, i don't think anyone is saying the entire loss was the coaches fault. as a matter of fact, i am certain that nobody has said that. there were clearly pleanty of other issues that went into it, but this thread is about a consistent issue the coaching staff has had over the years. it doesn't matter if the league comes out and says "yeah, we blew it". it just comes down to the fact that if there is a chance that there could be a review in a situation like that, they should have done everything they could to keep that review from happening
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