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I disagree. If Baltimore had not botched the punt return and called for a fair catch, they would have had two tries for a Hail Mary.I think we played the situation properly...
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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 disagree. If Baltimore had not botched the punt return and called for a fair catch, they would have had two tries for a Hail Mary.I think we played the situation properly...
He'd have to do that on all downs (remember you couldn't foresee the punt wouldn't be fair-caught).Snap it to Brady and make him waste 3 or 4 seconds before kneeling.
Guys remember ... On a fair catch on a safety free kick , the receiving kick can choose to take a free kick FG and the wind was behind the ravens I believe . So a safety making it a 2 pt game and a kick from the 20 may have given ravens a chance at a place kick field goal :
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch_kick
I'm sure BB considered this and took lowest variance situation (kneel )
Place kick field goal from their own twenty? Tricky! (I'm assuming a 60 yard punt which is reasonable when you consider they normally kick from ten yards behind the Los)
This is the sequence of plays from NFL.com stats...
The sequence of plays.. when they took over the ball there was a time out due to change of possession.
Running around in the backfield for 15 seconds, handing the ball off is risky... they handled it correctly, to me it shows tremendous confidence by BB in his special teams and defense of hail mary's...
- New England Patriots at 01:39
- 1-10-NE 20(1:39) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 18 for -2 yards. (42 of 45 seconds used)
- 2-12-NE 18( .57) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 16 for -2 yards. (45 seconds used)
- 3-14-NE 16( .15) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 15 for -1 yards. (Ravens call a time out)
This is much ado about nothing.. my math reveals that they could have used three more seconds in the first play from scrimmage, but not much else..
No trick plays here, hang on to the ball, punt it...let the rest of the squads do their job...
Thanks for the timeline -- not using those 3 seconds, and Brady's reaction at the end showed that he believed he could safely run the clock out -- even if BB was telling the defense otherwise.
Also they could've done something like on 3rd down have the ball go to Edelman, he runs outside the box to the endzone, and then chucks it up deep out of bounds -- that might've killed 8 more seconds; leaving the ravens with only the punt return
Or since Baltimore was saving that timeout for 4th down, why not sneak the punt return unit on there when there's 15 seconds left on the playclock for 3rd down. best case is we get a punt off when Baltimore has no one back there and the time just runs out cause they have to chase down the ball; or Baltimore is forced to use the timeout on 3rd down after most of the playclock has been used up, and then we run our normal kneel down play. Worst case is Baltimore is ready for it and we take a timeout with 0 seconds on the playclock and then do the usual kneeldown
But that assumes McDaniels can call one. We were too passhappy last night. And I'd rather have Jonas Gray carry it than Blount, don't ask me why. Here's hoping Gray is active for next week's game.A simple running play on first down would have been enough to ether make them use the timeout or allow the pats to run the clock out, either way they run the clock out.
I was thinking that NBC incorrectly had one time out left for Baltimore. I'm guessing that Belichick thought the Ravens were out of timeouts. Big mistake.
If our defense can't stop the Ravens with at most 14 seconds on the clock, the Pats don't deserve to win. If the end had been played any other way, the criticism of BB would be that he doesn't trust his D. The D did not do a bad job in that game, except for those first two Ravens drives when the D was playing too slow (probably rusty from the by week).
This seems most plausible to meThis is the sequence of plays from NFL.com stats...
The sequence of plays.. when they took over the ball there was a time out due to change of possession.
Running around in the backfield for 15 seconds, handing the ball off is risky... they handled it correctly, to me it shows tremendous confidence by BB in his special teams and defense of hail mary's...
- New England Patriots at 01:39
- 1-10-NE 20(1:39) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 18 for -2 yards. (42 of 45 seconds used)
- 2-12-NE 18( .57) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 16 for -2 yards. (45 seconds used)
- 3-14-NE 16( .15) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 15 for -1 yards. (Ravens call a time out)
This is much ado about nothing.. my math reveals that they could have used three more seconds in the first play from scrimmage, but not much else..
No trick plays here, hang on to the ball, punt it...let the rest of the squads do their job...
This had nothing to do with the Patriot defense. Football 101 - kill the clock in that situation, game/set/match.
Anyway, We're on to afccg
Yeah, but Darryl, that wonderful statistical graph needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Flacco's arm strength is elite, maybe the best in the game. Second, his uncanny record in the postseason should be factored in. And as Scott Zolak said last night--I had to mute the announcers--the Ravens were cool as cucumbers. A Ravens hail mary is scarier for all those reasons. I think we should have run the ball a time or two, keeping both hands on it. But you're right, it's coaching preference. And we certainly abandoned the run game, which I think was foolish. Gotta keep the other team's defense at least thinking about it.
Has flacco ever completed a game winning Hail Mary?I just think that with Flacco's history of throwing his famous deep balls, you want to do anything you can to avoid giving him a chance to get one last throw in. Those few seconds taken off by running it might not run off the clock, but it would run out enough clock for them to not get an opportunity to get anymore than a chance to return a punt.
I just thought it wasn't the best job at making sure the clock is ran down to double zeroes. Everyone was acting as if the game was over and that Baltimore didn't have a time out left!