I've never seen it done, and I realize it's almost impossible to ask of a player. But, with nobody around him on the kickoff return, Miller could have stopped at the 1-foot line. Pennington then runs up behind his center to keep the same field position without scoring. (Colts have no timeouts.) After 40 seconds run off, the Jets then call timeout. This leaves about a minute and the Jets have 2 chances to score a TD from the 1. If they don't score on the next play, they run nearly the remainder of the time and still have 1 timeout for the 3rd down play. The risk of course is not scoring a TD on 2 chances from the 1. Worst case is overtime. Colts have no time left to do anything. No chance to lose in regulation, and a good chance of winning with basically no time left for the COlts. Admit it, like me, you were (rightfully) worried that there were 2 minutes left for Manning after that touchdown. Is this idea crazy?
That's a terrible idea. When the other team hands you 7 points, you take it and don't ask questions. Can you imagine if Miller stopped at the 1 yard line and Barlow fumbled the football on his way into the endzone?
I was just thinking about this in general. but more so about how pathetic the play calling was in the last minute we had the ball. What the **** were those plays?!?!!?:!??3!
"you don't give up a guaranteed TD and the lead. end of story." Why not? They gave up a guaranteed Field Goal and the lead.
The Colts are guarding the sidelines and 25-40 yard band down the field. They really don't have to worry about over 40 due to chad's arms and they don't care about the middle of the field and/or less than 25 yards. Chad didn't want to turn it over and waited as long as he could until he had to get rid of it to avoid the sack.
And that was a bad decision. They should've kicked. BTW, it's a little bit ironic that we are even discussing the possibility of giving up points so Pennington could run out the clock and stop the other team from getting the ball back. Remember what happened last time we tried that? Against Pittsburgh, in 2004? And how it ended with the coach being run out of town?
Now you're just looking for ridiculous things to second guess. You cannot give up 7 points, all that momentum, and a GUARANTEED score. If the defense can't stop them with NO TIMEOUTS and 2 minutes left, they deserved to lose.
They had to go for the hail mary. there was no time for little shit. That last small drive pissed the shit outta me.
There is a big difference between a 3rd quarter gamble and taking the lead with 2:15 to go in the fourth quarter. besides, what football player who is taught all his life to run like hell until they reach endzone is going to pull up at the 1 yard-line. i can't believe this is even being discussed. with the way the board is going, you'll have allan1 create a post that Mangini is responsbile for not running down the sideline and telling Miller to stop
They were on the 35, right? A chad hail mary gets to the 20? 15? the hook and lateral play probably gave them a better shot.
If you would do that it would be the dumbest thing ever. Maybe it would work, but what if you fumble the snap? or throw an INT, its just a crazy idea. Actually, it is NUTS!
That certainly is an afterthought that makes sense,but i doubt that is going through the mind of a returner that just broke.
Even if this made sense and would be good strategy, which it's not, how exactly do you want him to stop at the one foot line? Only way to do it is run out of bounds, which defeats the purpose. The guy is running full speed, he's not going to be able to stop without slowing down well in advance, and then he'll most likely get caught around the 10. If he does manage to stop at the one foot line, he's just going to be tackled into the end zone. In Madden, it might make sense and might work, in real life no way.
