Nipped in the balls again....

Man that Pats-Colts game was the 2006 AFC Championship game all over again. Now I'm not going to take the approach that going for it on 4th down was the reason for this loss. You can go ahead and read some dingleberry douchy writer like Pete Prisco or Ron Borges for that. Admittedly I thought at first that it was really dumb but I'm going to defend that decision cuz there were about 45 other things that I feel are more to blame.

Plus, the Colts with a timeout and 2:00 mins were probably going to march up the field and score anyways. I do believe that.

First off, how many coaches do you see punt the ball on 4th and 6 at the opponents 38 down 7 in the 4th quarter like the following will actually happen:

1. The punt won't go into the end zone.
2. The defense will stop them.
3. When you do get the ball back you will have this good of a chance and enough time to go get a TD.

Look at Andy Reid last week kicking a MEANINGLESS field goal against the Cowboys then never getting the ball back. If I have a coach, I want one with some balls. I'm still not completely sold per say but I'll go into the fox hole with someone like BB over Andy Reid any day.

Here are some of the stupid things though:

1. Wasting timeouts. This always kills me, why do teams take a 2nd half timeout over a 5 yard delay of game penalty? Dude what's 5 yards in the 3rd quarter opposed to an EFFING TIME OUT!??? Then they call 2 timeouts during that last drive. It was sloppy. Coaches should have a plan in mind and definitely need to hold onto timeouts. I'm not sure that the Faulk catch would have been overturned but it was worth challenging. BB fucked this up big time. The ref who made the call saw Faulk's back and therefore couldn't accurately see where he caught the ball, but due to dickless idiocy we'll never know.

2. If BB knows damn well in his mind that this if 4 down territory then why not run on 3rd and 2? Here you force the Colts to use a timeout and you probably at worst have no gain. If the Colts *don't* use a timeout then you run the Faulk play and the booth is able to review since you are under 2 mins.

3. Ok so you went for it and bleeped up. On the 2nd play of the ensuing drive, Joseph Addai ran right through the middle and it seemed most Patriots were ok just letting him score. However Brandon Merriweather STUPIDLY tackled him at the 4. This is the only play that made me yell out loud. I yelled "aww let him score!!!!" The Patriots would have had 1:15 left down by 1 with no timeouts. I will take my chances!!!! Now you may say that Addai coulda pulled a Pocket Hercules and kneeled at the 1, but let's remember... the Jags were down 1. It would have been BALLSY to knee at the 1 still needing a TD. Merriweather... DUMB!!!!!!

4. You have a play you like, great. You completed the pass, awesome. But for the love of Christ run the friggen route longer!!! Why do you call a play that close to the sticks?? If you need 2 yards then Faulk needs to run his out to the 31 yard line. Then if he bobbles, that dildo ref can spot him at the 30.5 instead of the 31.

I also want to know what is changing with the Colts magically turning it on and the Patriots D completely crumbling time after time in the last 4 mins? Is it really just fatigue??? These are professional athletes. Are they softening up? Are they playing prevent? This is what kills me the most. You KNOW that the Colts are dangerous and that Manning can zip up the field. Keep doing what you are doing. This is one of the reasons you can defend BB. I would bet a lot of money that Manning takes the Colts 70 yards for a TD anyway. That D had 11 guys with forks sticking out of their backs.

This game felt just like that Bills-Pats game on the opening Monday night. I thought to myself, if Indy can score before the 2 minute warning without using timeouts they have a very good chance. Then you just need a 3 and out to give yourself a chance.

I hear some Pats fans saying, 'Hey don't worry we'll beat the Colts if we play in the playoffs.' Do you really believe that though? You think that Manning & co. won't put up 30 some odd points again? I don't feel very confident. Sure the Pats played 56 solid minutes but I'm not sure I trust the D to play that well through 56 minutes again. I still believe Indy will vag out in the playoffs as that is what they always do and will continue to do. I just think it will be at the hands of the Steelers or Chargers and not the Patriots.

Also do we already forget that BB went for a 4th and 1 at his own 25 versus the Falcons? We just like to say "he's the tits" when it works and "he's a douche" when it doesn't. It's not exactly hard to do AFTER you know the conclusion.

So I can applaud BB for having a sack, however, he effed this up by pissing away timeouts, running two passes in a row when he knew he was gonna go for it on 4th down, not telling his players to allow a score in that kind of situation, and running the 4th down play a yard shy for Faulk.

But if you don't feel the same then go read the articles by those turds Borges & Prisco.