The Jets series before halftime when the rain was pouring so hard, he decides to go with 3 straight PASS PLAYS from the goal line with 1 minute to go. What the hell kind of thought process is this? Why not run it there... And I think everyone knows the meltdown of clock management between 3:00-2:00 in the 4th quarter was absolutely the most bone-headed coaching we have had with Rex since he has been here. You throw the ball on 2nd and 11 with 2:15 to go in the 4th when the Vikings have no timeouts??? Horrible....Steve Young is killing us on ESPN. He also mentions how if we ran it on that 2nd and 3rd down we would punt it and Favre would only have 30 seconds to play with...Instead we gave them 2 minutes. Lucky for us Brett Favre played like 2008 Favre out there
That was awful... we got a complete pass in and Schotty decides to keep doing it even though we're virtually ending the game with a 4.5 YPC... fuckin' moron sometimes.
I'm so tired of Schotty. Can't really blame him for the clock management at the end, that was more of Sanchez for starting the play so early.
I won't say anything about Schotty... I feel schizophrenic every time I do that... one week he's an idiot, next week he's a genius. I'd just say he's improved a lot lately, even if he made some bad calls in this game.
Dude, did u watch the play? It was NOT on Schotty, it was on Sanchez. He snapped the ball about 5 seconds earlier. It was a good play cuz if we pick up the first down, its game over. If we don't pick up the first, the clock would stop at 2 minute warning regardless of the pass being a completion/incompletion. That was a game ending call, just bad execution. /thread.
The end of the first half was brutal, but most of the offensive miscues came down to poor execution. Dropped passes and bad throws by Sanchez. Blame it on the rain, thought I'd like to see the team make good on that "all weather offense" claim.
This was a bad game for Schottenheimer no question... just tuck it away and move on hoping he learned something
Ok the 4th quarter can be put on Sanchez for doing the play right away, but that halftime drive ignited that Vikings team...It made no sense, a run with 1 minute to go there would have helped, considering it was hailing out there and pouring out there like never before. We had the Vikes on the ropes there and could have knocked them out with a 16-0 lead However, Vikings have a great defense too
ra ra retard abandoned the run which was working with absolute perfection up to that point. I think Schottie might not be a person but a computer that picks plays in random fashion.
I had a problem with that goalline sequence too.. but I can't blame him for 2nd down in the 4th quarter and not running the clock all the way down before the snap. That was on Sanchez and was terrible. I also thought on 1st down, he should have ran a running play to the outside so it would have taken an extra second or two off, and could have gotten it down to the 2 minute warning.
This was just a classic example of how Schott will over analyze the situation. We knew it'd happen eventually. Going with an empty backfield on 3rd and 3 inside the red zone was moronic.
We had been very good passing the ball inside the 5 in the last few games. The plays were just fine. There were two possible PI penalties not given. One of those plays was a dropped pass. Then Keller dropped the pass in the endzone again, which wasn't a great throw, but if the receiver can get both hands on the ball without strething too far out, it should be caught. Either of the three plays could have resulted in a TD if the receivers catch the passes that hit them in the hands. Its not rocket science. If we score there, most of the posters would lick Schottys balls, while some would still bitch why we didn't run the ball regardless of a TD. Our receivers just need to catch those passes that hit them in their hands. The play calling wasn't the best, but it wasn't terrible either. Sanchez played a very good game. He completed almost 50% of his passes, which also include about 6-7 dropped passes. If we catch those dropped passes, Sanchez goes about 30/44 for over 250 yards and at least one TD. If your QB is playing at that level, why would you not trust him to make plays inside the redzone? Im not complaining about the drops. It was wet out there. We won the game and its best we faced all these issues and still won, cuz now we have some issues to work on in the next few days.
Not sure what your point is but on a rainy ass night with a lead and the clock on our side, and running the ball being a strength, please put a fucking RB in the backfield on 3rd and 3. I've been giving Schott his due credit the last few weeks, and will always when he calls a smart game. Tonight he wasn't good.
My point is, execution is not the hands of the OC. Its up to the players. Sanchez has played a great season so far and I wasn't surprised Schotty trusted him. He could have called a better play, but I'm not going to blame him for trusting Sanchez. If anything, Sanchez gets a lot of confidence knowing the coaches trust him. Either way, we won so I won't be bashing anyone....Now if u wanna talk about the Gholston play, I certainly can differ about my bashing opinion
