the last play? Yes,
just going for broke their or
we just some guys didn't Bliss.
And if we didn't get the call, but it wasn't, it was
an all-out blessed. We should have got ton of pressure.
No regrets. And I think everybody did get the going
back looking at it. We just we didn't have. Everybody got
the call.
I was wrong about that. They all got the call.
We had Su come up, the Middle with just
We got to cover better in that situation situation when we're
going after the quarterback. They'll need like possibly 12
yards for that field goal. So, I don't question that call
whatsoever. But
when we do that, we got to get to the quarterback.
They all got the call. I didn't get the call regardless, they
called an all-out Blitz and the result speaks for itself. You
can say I don't regret it. Well, you put the Rams in range
for a chip shot field
goal to win the football game by calling that and cheering.
I'm trying to figure out what the Bucks were really trying to
do there. Did they think they were going to force Matthew
Stafford into a mistake interception? A fumble? Did
they think he would Wilt under the pressure? Did they also
want to force
the issue there?
Because they feared going to overtime
against the Rams team that had outplayed them all day long.
That if they got the opening kickoff of the extra session,
they would have just driven right down the field and scored
a touchdown to win the game. I don't know, but they decided
strategically
and deliberately to force the issue
at a time when
maybe the better play would have been going to a shell and
take the momentum
that you would developed erasing a 27:3 deficit into overtime.
Well, it's weird to me that Aryans changed his tune because
Levante David basically backed him up last night and said it
was a miscommunication. And if you watch the video,
if you watch where Levante David was,
it was 10 people on defense, he was in, no man's land. He was
not blitzing. He was not defending, he was standing
there, watching in the middle of the field, five, or seven
yards behind the line of scrimmage
doing nothing. So it 10 men on defense against the Rams. And
by the way,
you left Cooper cup one-on-one with Winfield, to try to stop
him. That's just a mismatch. It was just a, I don't know if his
execution or decision-making or whatever. It was
miscommunication, whatever you want to call it,
but it didn't work and I would advise them never to do that
again against the best receiver in the league, who's going to
win offensive player of the year. You definitely want to
know where Cooper cup is.
At all times. So I don't know what their strategy was, but it
didn't work and it was dumb, whether its execution, or
whether as play call, or whatever. It was. They got what
they deserved on that play.
Yeah, look, it was a great decision. It was a great play
call strategically. This is exactly what we need to do. We
just got to get to the quarterback. Well the fact that
you didn't get to the quarterback shows. It wasn't
a good decision
because you're putting all your eggs in that basket. This isn't
a normal play where hey we'd like to get to the quarterback
and Sack him. 44, he finds an open man.
Your coverage is going to be
restrained. It's going to be effective. It's going to be
limited by the fact that you're sending all these guys mean
Greg Williams got fired for that nonsense in in New York
during the final Adam gase season when he called the
zero Blitz against the Raiders. So, I just think the whole thing
was ridiculous and is ridiculous, and
I'm trying to figure out
What the real play is here.
And I wonder whether or not, they feared
losing in overtime.
So they wanted to try to Rattle Matthew Stafford and get him to
maybe throw a ball up for grabs, get an interception, get
a short field and try to win the game then and there without
playing for overtime, but regardless it's pass/fail
and the end result after this play. And there's, there's
the pressure getting there late, and there's cup behind Antoine,
Winfield jr. And that's night night for the Bucs after they
roared back.
Down 2:33 the Tennessee Titans. This is something Simms and
I were talking about earlier today and I think Sims is on
the money with this. Do you want a foreman
who did a great job?
Perfect, find by John Robinson. A guy who had over 2,000
rushing yards in a single season with the Texas Longhorns
went to the Houston Texans, never worked out kind of
bounced around the league. He was
great for the Titans. After
Derek Henry suffered, his injury
Foreman had burst yesterday. Foreman had pop Foreman. Jumps
off the film when you Watch the highlights of the game for
carries 66 yards. Sixteen point five yards per carry. Derrick
Henry 20 carries 62 yards for him.
Henry didn't have
that kick. And I know that from times
to time time. It's like
Henry Henry needs to just get through the first level and
then take off. He still didn't explode into the end of the
first level, the way that we're used to. And he definitely
wasn't exploding the way. Do you want a former did so?
Shireen? I think the challenge is
And I like, Mike variables are coach of the year.
I'm not regretting that, but I think the challenge is to have
people in place
who during the game. While it's happening, can spot something
like that and say
Foreman is our guide today.
Foreman has more pop today.
Foreman has more burst today. We need to give the ball more
to Deonte Foreman if they would have done that. Maybe they
would have won the game.
I was tweeting it the entire game and I don't think that
foreman is a better running back. Derrick Henry. He's not,
but you know, what? On Saturday he was he had he was everything
that that Derrick Henry was not and I wondered watching that
game, why they didn't have some plays.
Like the Cowboys have with Ezekiel Elliott and Tony
Pollard, especially when Zeke had his knee injury, why
wouldn't you have some plays with them both in the backfield
to really give you some options because guess what?
The Bengals are going to focus on, Derrick Henry, simply
because of the reputation. So why wouldn't you have plays
with both of them and give Foreman the ball? And I think
you would have seen more of
that in this game, the way he was running. He was
outstanding. He didn't get enough touches. I think if he
got more touches,
the Titans would have won that game. If he had gotten more
Henry gets last, they win that game and it's not often. I'm
gonna say that, but Henry just wasn't the same back coming off
that foot injury with that. That metal plate in his shoe.
He just didn't have it. The way he has had it over the last
couple of seasons and this season when he had almost 1,000
yards before, going out in the eighth game with that foot
injury. So
they needed more Foreman. They didn't have it. So they're
sitting at home watching the rest of the postseason.
A very important question. What is more difficult for you
Tweeting? Compliments about a former, Texas, Longhorn crew
giving your loyalty to Texas A & M program or or Tweeting our
compliments about calamari which ones more difficult,
who I think form and I think the Longhorns. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah,
regardless, I think you're right on the money. And it's
a shame that the Titans didn't recognize it because for their
sake, they could have one for the Bengals. Say hey, whatever
it takes, they get the Victory and they move on
the bills. Now this, this may sound a little kooky and I know
that the onside kick rules have changed, I think back to,
was it a Colts Chiefs game
when Dick Vermeil was the coaching Kansas City,
where they actually the Chiefs actually
Kicked on side because they knew they couldn't stop
the Colts. Am I remembering that? It got to the point where they
had no chance of stopping the Colts
during the game and they eventually just said, screw it.
We're going to kick on side because we're not going to stop
the Colts. Anyway, I kind of remember that it's possible.
I'm misremembering it. But I remember that happening at one
point. Anyway, I mentioned all that because
Kansas City Buffalo Bills, lose the toss to start. Over time
Chiefs, want the ball.
And I and again, I know it's harder to recover a surprise,
onside kick than it used to be because of the pre-kick motion,
that's limited. You can't get the running start and
positioning the players,
but you know, what? If they do. Hey,
you can make the argument. The bill should have just said,
screw it. Let's try to get the ball. Let's try to get
possession, because if you do get possession, you only need
a field goal to win. All. That's required is the Chiefs have
an opportunity to possess the ball.
If the bills onside kick and recover a field goal wins it,
not that they wouldn't have scored a
Touchdown but I think it's fair to ask that question. If they
don't change the rules
in a situation like that in the future should a team, just say
screw it. We're going to kick on side. I think it's something
worth considering.
Yeah, well you look at what the Saints did in the second half
of the Super Bowl and got the ball. So sometimes those
surprise onside kicks can work, obviously better than the one
that you know is coming. And no one would have expected it at
that point. But even
if the let's say the Chiefs recover that Mike right?
Your defense is spent so you just tell your defense look
you just have to play hard here and try to hold them to a field
goal or three and out or whatever you have to do, but
you're not asking them to start down. You old and try to
hold them out. It just wasn't going to happen and it probably
wasn't going to happen if they got the ball there, but maybe
there they give a little more in those Downs because they're
already almost in field goal range to say. Hey, we've got to
give three
good plays here. Let's get good pass rush has on Patrick Mahomes
and maybe just maybe something can go our way in this. And if
it doesn't it doesn't. If they get in field goal, range and
kick it. You get the ball back. If they score a touchdown
you're done which they did anyway.
So you weren't going to stop them.
I think it's legitimate question to ask, should they
have kicked an onside kick? Because if you recover it,
you've obviously you're going to probably win the game and if
you don't you're going to have the same outcome. You had
anyway.
I'm a big proponent of the fourth and 15, alternative to
the onside kick. I'm a big proponent of the fourth, and 15
played generally as a replacement for a kickoff
because you can punt out of that formation.
You can run a fake punt, which simulates
the old surprise onside kick. You can put your offense out on
the field which simulates the deliberate intentional.
Everyone knows it's coming on sidekick or if you want and
there's a Twist that I've always been fascinated by,
you could do the Ben Roethlisberger. Randall
Cunningham, quick kick. And surprise the defense if they
think you're actually trying to convert fourth and 15 to punt
it over everyone's head and you change
possession that way. There's so many different things you can
do, but think about, if that was the rule for all kickoffs
last night when the bills have to kick fourth and 15 the way,
but Josh Allen was playing last night. I may have taken my
chances
going for it on Fourth and 15, but these are things that may
or may not become part of the fabric at the end of our rule
book in the Her last one real quickly.
Packers special teams,
not a shock that they stunk, and they stunk it up on
Saturday night. They cost
the Packers, the game,
the block punt, definitely
the blocked field goal before the end of the half that kept
the Packers from going up. 10. Nothing ten guys on the field
for the field goal. Try, are you kidding me? That's
inexcusable to have 10 guys on the field for the game deciding
field goal
try.
Why didn't they do anything to fix it during the season? Is it
arrogance? Is it? What is it? Is it incompetence? It's
amazing to me. Shireen.
Yeah, I just don't think they've made it a priority
since Ted Thompson was the GM there. I just don't think it's
been a priority for this organization. And you know,
Rick Gosselin does. Those annual special teams coaches?
Look at those those annual rankings of special teams. They
were 30, second
on his rankings.
As Kyle. Shanahan said, this is the one time we have
an advantage in the Special Teams, and they did the first team in
33 years to block a kick and a
field goal, and a punt in a postseason game.
Pretty amazing. They change special teams coaches after
last season. Now, they might change it again. The previous
seven special teams coordinators that they have had
have either been fired or forced into retirement. They
could have a new one going into next year if they decide to
move on from Maris Drayton, but they've got to make it
a priority. It can't. It's not really about the coach. They've
gone that route. It's about making special teams a priority
and maybe that means playing some of your
some of your starters on special teams as well, Mike.
Hey
that look it exposes guys to additional risk of injury and
that's the drawback. But if you use your absolute best players,
your most important plays, it's 1/3 of game. Jimmie, Johnson
was a big proponent one. Third of the game the Special Teams
and you can see what it does to your seas. And in a single
elimination setting. The prom with the Packers
is they just get in that single elimination setting
and they find a way
to have it all fall apart, whatever it was and it was
special teams this time.