Wacky Fourth-Down Calls
November 20th, 2011
One could debate through the night the Bucs’ decisions to go for two onsides kicks. They failed on both.
Joe really can’t come down hard on those. The Bucs knew they needed magic and miracles today, considering their season-long failures in the red zone. And Kellen Winslow’s 2-point conversion drop surely prompted the second onsides attempt in the fourth quarter.
What did shock Joe was the Bucs punting on 4th-and-3 in the fourth quarter trailing by eight points. If you’re going to try onsides kicks, aren’t your odds better of converting on 4th-and-3?
But the Bucs punted, the Packers got a huge runback negating the punt, then on the first play from scrimmage Elbert Mack picked off Aaron Rodgers on an excellent read. Joe had to laugh. That’s football.
Essentially, Joe’s just trying to say he can live with those calls as they played out in this game. It’s surely not what cost the Bucs the game.
November 20th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
I liked the first on sides. I thought the second was ridiculous. The Defense wasn’t doing too badly, although we needed GreenBay to help beat themselves, and the pressure would have been on Rodgers to score. Whatever, the team finally played much better. Frikkin Rodgers was very good except for 2 drives I can think of. That darned pass interference call on Myron Lewis was brutal.
November 20th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
raheem morris keeps saying stats are for losers well when your a losers of course your gonna say that his nfl record is 17-25 his defense is ranked last in almost everything and so is his offense
November 20th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
What lost us this game is plain and simple..two redzone field goals instead of touchdowns and a wide open dropped two point conversion by a non clutch kellen winslow. I think if the team plays with the heart they had today raheem will keep his job. Even though we saw more three and four wr sets I didn’t see enough deep balls and blount should have ran more. Keep rah and get rid of olson and bring in a def coordinator
November 20th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
I’ll take Jeff Fisher.
November 20th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
He. Is. A. Bad. Coach.
November 20th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
just picked of Rodgers, converted turnover into 7pts…..we have momentum! down by 2, field goal wins the game so tell me again why you wouldn’t play field position with a great kicker and a fired up defense? that call was fast and aggressive, yes… smart, no!
Liked the first call, but perhaps should have been saved for the second situation IMO.
November 21st, 2011 at 10:03 am
What did shock Joe was the Bucs punting on 4th-and-3 in the fourth quarter trailing by eight points. If you’re going to try onsides kicks, aren’t your odds better of converting on 4th-and-3?
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING!!!!!!!1
Roll Freeman with a pass or run option