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Paintrain · 12-13-2004, 12:53 AM

Very frustrating game to watch.. THe same old themes that have plauged us continue to persist. Time management, bad, play calling, worse, stupid penalties, the worst. Mike Sellers should be cut at 9am or as soon as the league offices open. You can't be on the field for 15 plays a game and cost your team 30 yds. That 2nd penalty was just inexucsable, we could have had the ball at the 50 yd line, with momentum and he does some old dumb sh*t that killed us.

I hate to say this about Coach Gibbs, but he's coaching scared. I don't know if he still doesn't trust Ramsey or what, but today's NFL isn't a horizontal game, it's a vertical game. You have to push the ball down the field occasionally. All the WR screens and hitches don't do you a bit of good when you always have 3rd and 7. Not going for it when the ball is at the Eagles 47 and it's 4th and less than a yard, c'mon. Show some guts. On the other hand, getting stuffed twice on 3rd & 1 just shows how predictable we've gotten. Where's the play-action there? Where was the bunch formation tonight? Why wait until the 4th quarter to break out the moving pocket? Gibbs needs to hire a TRUE offensive coordinator (not Pops Breaux) to design some contemporary plays including the shotgun.

The time management is inexcusable. Running the play clock down to 3 seconds every play is not good. Not having plays ready for down and distance isn't good. It seems that Gibbs is really struggling with this aspect still. I don't think the refs helped at all in the 4th quarter. We shouldn't have had to burn that timeout if the replay ref would have called down sooner.

I think the past few weeks have shown that we have the players for the most part and we have the potential to be successful but we need to get current with what the rest of the league is doing and turn some of these close losses into wins.

12-13-2004, 12:53 AM	#15
Paintrain Pro Bowl Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Age: 54 Posts: 5,006	Very frustrating game to watch.. THe same old themes that have plauged us continue to persist. Time management, bad, play calling, worse, stupid penalties, the worst. Mike Sellers should be cut at 9am or as soon as the league offices open. You can't be on the field for 15 plays a game and cost your team 30 yds. That 2nd penalty was just inexucsable, we could have had the ball at the 50 yd line, with momentum and he does some old dumb sh*t that killed us. I hate to say this about Coach Gibbs, but he's coaching scared. I don't know if he still doesn't trust Ramsey or what, but today's NFL isn't a horizontal game, it's a vertical game. You have to push the ball down the field occasionally. All the WR screens and hitches don't do you a bit of good when you always have 3rd and 7. Not going for it when the ball is at the Eagles 47 and it's 4th and less than a yard, c'mon. Show some guts. On the other hand, getting stuffed twice on 3rd & 1 just shows how predictable we've gotten. Where's the play-action there? Where was the bunch formation tonight? Why wait until the 4th quarter to break out the moving pocket? Gibbs needs to hire a TRUE offensive coordinator (not Pops Breaux) to design some contemporary plays including the shotgun. The time management is inexcusable. Running the play clock down to 3 seconds every play is not good. Not having plays ready for down and distance isn't good. It seems that Gibbs is really struggling with this aspect still. I don't think the refs helped at all in the 4th quarter. We shouldn't have had to burn that timeout if the replay ref would have called down sooner. I think the past few weeks have shown that we have the players for the most part and we have the potential to be successful but we need to get current with what the rest of the league is doing and turn some of these close losses into wins.