TheGodInAGreyHoodie
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I can actually almost (key word:almost) sort of sympathize with the Ravens here. A lot of people are taking the "better than thou" approach that "I bet the Patriots would never use the scoreboard to see down and distance."
Well ya know what? I bet you they do!! Maybe not the coaches on the headsets but certainly some of the players on the sidelines who maybe can't see the official marker are just going to look up at the jumbletron.
Cundiff isn't saying he would have kicked the ball differently if it was 3rd down versus if it was 4th down. He saying that if it was 3rd down, he probably wouldn't have been out there on the field in the first place. So since he thought it was 3rd down, he wasn't quite as ready as he otherwise would have been.
The fact that they had a timeout and didn't use it is what stops me from having any sympathy for them. But they're certainly not the first team to mess up with seconds left in the game.
I'm a Giants fan but I really don't understand why Baltimore rushed Cundiff and why everything was panicked. You were pretty much in chip shot FG range, why not make sure everything is setup and take the delay of game penalty? Is a 31 yarder and a 36 yarder really THAT much different? I notice the Giants take a few delay of game penalties just to make sure everything is setup, it's not like the penalty would have knocked them out of FG range.
No.
No need to take the delay of game penalty. They had a time out. The HC or the ST coach or the player should have called a TO to regroup. Grousing about this only highlights lack of situational awareness and preparedness.
Now, a member of the Ravens organization isn't ruling out that the Patriots may have been behind the whole thing.
"The scoreboard was one down behind, the entire last three plays, from what we understand," Ravens kicking coordinator Randy Brown told Angelo Cataldi and The Morning Team on 94 WIP on Tuesday, according to CBSPhilly.com.
Brown was then asked if he thought the scoreboard issue could have been intentional on part of the Patriots.
"I don't know," he responded, "I don't think you can rule anything out in New England, can you?" Brown responded.
Brown was also asked about the prospects head coach John Harbaugh calling a time out to give the Ravens a chance to get things together before the attempt.
"With kickers, I think we learned with [Dallas Cowboys head coach] Jason Garrett this year, you don't want to call time out to ice your own kicker. ... It was our belief that he was ready."
What I dont like about Billy Cundiff after his shank is his shameless self-promotion in his following press conferences. "I haven't missed a 4th quarter field goal all season" does not mitigate an inability to perform in the big game. But worse than that, talking himself up is the opposite of the humility that is needed by players to be good role-models.
What on God's green earth is a kicking consultant? This guy is on the Ravens' payroll? I suggest hiring a "down management" consultant next.
So maybe he's like a personal assistant to Cundiff? I suspect Cundiff is a bit of a drama queen who maybe needs a handler.....remember when he pushed the camera away like he was Sean Penn?Heh.
Somebody whose job it is to actually talk to the kicker?
You know, so somebody actually does talk to them.
Funny the extra layer of coachiness did not prevent the big fail.
Here's a question from me: Does each team hire their own personel for scoreboard duties or are they officials from the NFL itself? I heard a caller claim that the all scorers in the NFL are hired and controled by the NFL and not individual teams, said a friend worked in the business. BS?