Falcons: MM shits the bed in OT

[McUser]

(11-13-2011 05:39 PM)MilleniumFalcon Wrote:  Also that Terry Mccauly (sp?) review in overtime was idiotic. He lost control of the ball when he already had it past the 30 yard line, how do you move it back?

I know man, that was garbage.

[ggp]

(11-13-2011 05:53 PM)The Falcon Jedi Wrote:  The 4th and Inches Play....

1. Blocking fell apart, Saints D-Line bull-rushed
2. Turner - WHY THE FUCK does he always run right into his blockers? He could have bounced it outside or something but he just ran right into the bull rush up the middle. Stupid.

3. Gonzalez was standing by himself on the outside edge. Misdirection, Play Action? Mularkey fucked up.

4. Or just Punt the damn ball - Mike Smith - we're on our own 30 yard line. Our Defense was doing pretty good, we had just stopped the Saints.

Uggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Good summary. I will put this loss on our coaching staff. I am not one of those that likes to fire the coaching staff on a weekly basis. In fact, I am not calling for their heads. I am simply calling it the way I see it. There are many ways to lose a game, from my point of view, this game was lost because of poor decisions during the game and poor preparation prior to the game.

[FullMetalFalcon23]

Seriously, this loss, doesn't burn in my gut, this is how our rivalries go with the saints. To the wire. People are throwing lambs to the slaughter and having their inquisitions, but we have had worse wins than this loss. Sometimes I wonder how many people really know and understand football. It is not a known quantity nor a defined art. It ebbs and flows. It's a joke that people have talked of us trading Roddy, its a joke that people have called for MM to go mid season. It's like some think it is Madden. This game had lows and highs for both teams, the expectation is high and the disappointment brings one down. All understandable, but seriously I prefer the logical assessments made about the game than the usual bullshit.

The call to go for it was a risk, but based on how NO had failed to stuff our run that severely all game. We needed inches, it was not beyond our offense. However I don't deplore people for disagreeing with the call. For reasons such as field position.

This was a good game of football. We came out on the losing end but we saw so much good in our young team. The building must continue.

[bF™]

i was begging for him to run turner on a draw. we had to have thrown like 15-20 straight passes heading into OT & including the first OT drive.

the saints could only stop the run on obvious run downs.

[McUser]

(11-13-2011 06:09 PM)FullMetalFalcon23 Wrote:  Seriously, this loss, doesn't burn in my gut, this is how our rivalries go with the saints. To the wire. People are throwing lambs to the slaughter and having their inquisitions, but we have had worse wins than this loss. Sometimes I wonder how many people really know and understand football. It is not a known quantity nor a defined art. It ebbs and flows. It's a joke that people have talked of us trading Roddy, its a joke that people have called for MM to go mid season. It's like some think it is Madden. This game had lows and highs for both teams, the expectation is high and the disappointment brings one down. All understandable, but seriously I prefer the logical assessments made about the game than the usual bullshit.

The call to go for it was a risk, but based on how NO had failed to stuff our run that severely all game. We needed inches, it was not beyond our offense. However I don't deplore people for disagreeing with the call. For reasons such as field position.

This was a good game of football. We came out on the losing end but we saw so much good in our young team. The building must continue.

+1 for you, absolutely right.

[FullMetalFalcon23]

(11-13-2011 06:07 PM)ggp Wrote:  Good summary. I will put this loss on our coaching staff. I am not one of those that likes to fire the coaching staff on a weekly basis. In fact, I am not calling for their heads. I am simply calling it the way I see it. There are many ways to lose a game, from my point of view, this game was lost because of poor decisions during the game and poor preparation prior to the game.

Where exactly were we poorly prepared. When graham scored that was a blown play. Lack of execution. This team was prepared. There was always for the most part a red hat near NO receivers. We weren't gashed by the 3 headed monster of their ground game. We passed on them we ran on them. We were not shredded by their pass game by yac. For the most part bar blown plays the team was in position to make a play on the ball, or bring the receiver down quickly. This game was lost due to errors, and ultimately by us trying our luck on 4th down one time too many, and at the wrong time.

[AsylumGuido]

(11-13-2011 05:34 PM)chris30277 Wrote:  The end of that game is like going to a strip club.... I got all excited, but disappointed when we couldn't score.

Love this reply! Please give this guy preferred status or something.

[illmusic]

i'm kind of mad we didn't run the ball once in OT until that 4th down play...I understand we were killing them at the end of the 4th through the air but we have Michael Turner in our backfield. we're built around him, he had a good game with 20 touches. just blew my world we didn't try him once...

[dmo_dlo]

(11-13-2011 06:17 PM)FullMetalFalcon23 Wrote:  Where exactly were we poorly prepared. When graham scored that was a blown play. Lack of execution. This team was prepared. There was always for the most part a red hat near NO receivers. We weren't gashed by the 3 headed monster of their ground game. We passed on them we ran on them. We were not shredded by their pass game by yac. For the most part bar blown plays the team was in position to make a play on the ball, or bring the receiver down quickly. This game was lost due to errors, and ultimately by us trying our luck on 4th down one time too many, and at the wrong time.

Well said. Our D performed very well, except of course the lack of pressure (although I felt there was pressure on most plays -- Brees just got rid of the ball very quickly). We even defended the screen pass perfectly!! It came down to drops (many of them). But it's hard to argue that there were some terrible calls by MM. Not running in OT was just weird. Also, if you're not confident enough with your OL to get 2-3 inches on a sneak why would you run inside on such crucial play? If you wanna get gutsy, don't do it half way.

[nativefalcon]

(11-13-2011 05:31 PM)Jimusmc Wrote:  you surprised?

I know im not

What killed me that WHOLE overtime, they kept passing, they had all the time in the world the saints were in pass defense mode. RUN THE FUCKING BALL with Turner, that just shows you Mularkey is a fucking idiot. We kept passing, the rest is history.