Yes, and not even one WR in on the play as far as I remember. All power formation, not even an attempt to disguise a run.
Mangold was blown up on the third down play. We should have tried a play action pass in the first down. Everyone was expecting run. Mangini, Schott, etc were trying to send a message by running 3 times. I understand the concept but much rather the TD as a result.
Right - and that has nothing to do with the play calling. The coordinator needs to be able to rely on his o-line to be able to get that push for a goal line TD. Yesterday he learned that he probably cannot. Great teams can line up at the goal line and say, we're running in the A gap here, try and stop us, and come away with a TD.
Oh so true, so true sorry to say. Most disappointing in all facets from coaching to the lines they all get a D- or less
I'm all over the coaching staff for a terribly called game yesterday, but not on this particular series. Sure, a pass could have been attempted, but let's keep something in mind. The first two runs produced a positive yard each. Had the third done the same, it's a TD. Plus, you're not testing the Pats' coverage with only 10 yards to patrol. What if they called a pass on third down, and it was a pick-6? Then everyone would be screaming "Well, the first two runs made positive yardage? Why'd they break from that?!" The playcalling was poor yesterday, but not on this particular sequence. As has been said already, the OLine just plain didn't get the job done.
Ah look at this way it was our OLine vs there DLine & who do you think won that battle & eventually the game?
^^Is there no difference in running the ball 3 times from a regular pro-set and running it three times with a 3 TE set?
The bottom line is the games are being called as if Chad is the Qb. Brett Farve has the hall of fame resume not schotty or Mangini. Let the man audible he has seen more than either or them probably ever will at this point.
Who do I think won? I know who won both battles. Shit happens. It's just ridiculous that people are so fucused on this particular sequence. Yeah, it sucked, but we walked away with points. I'm far more concerned over things like getting big plays overturned thanks to penalties, and missing easy field goals. Those are the things that lose games, walking away from drives without any points. Getting three instead of six is disappointing, but getting points on the board is always a positive. We can bitch about the overall playcalling all day legitimately. However, bitching about this one particular situation is silly, at best.
Sorry it set the tempo for the remainder oof the game cause the Pats DLine knew they could manhandle on our OLine. Tell BChildress in Minny how good FGs are vs TDs
favre does not know the playbook, give him until after week 4 to judge openly until then give him a break he has been using practical plays, stuff the pats know, when he knows the playbook, the pats will be on their heels... and so will the other teams.
It looks like we build this offense around Chad and never adjusted to the starch difference in Favre's abilities. You don't go dink and dunk with the weapons that we have on offense.
We ran for nearly 5 yards a carry yesterday. I'd hardly say the Pats d-line manhandled the Jets o-line. This game was lost on special teams and untimely penalties.
no they definitely didnt. and everyone can say "oh well what happened on the goal line?" ill tell you what happened, the goddamn coaching staff was so friggin predictable that the D can just pin their ears back and fly at us.
It seemed like the only reason they were dinking and dunking was because there was no one open downfield. The o-line gave Favre plenty of time on most plays, and in general they did an adequate job.
I dunno - if I were running a team averaging nearly 5 yards/carry and had the ball on the 3 yard line I'd hope I could run it 3 times and get in the end zone. I guess that's just me.
