NFL Divisional Round Thread: Colts? Chargers? Vikings? Saints? Come Out & Play!

He has made only eight of 15 for his career in the playoffs. I know that there are a couple of really long attempts in there, but how could you trust him in the playoffs again after this?

 

The Texans didn't deserve to be in the playoffs. They pissed many games away on their own, with no one's help. What the Colts pulled remains execrable, but the Texans have no room to complain.

 

I'm willing to bet you could find several games that any 9-7 team "pissed away."

 

Not like that team, they just couldn't finish games. They shit their pants late in both Colts matchups, at home against the Titans and almost blew it against the Rams.

 

Honestly, for me it has always been a matter of being disgusted that the Jets got in that way rather than being concerned with any particular team being left out.

 

I am a Jets pessimist going back to the Richard Todd era. The timely plays and luck over the past few weeks (do they have the kickers union in their pocket?) are basically stuff which happens to the Jets, not by the Jets. I would have banged the Bolts for by house at -8 and would do the same for the Colts at anything under -15, but wow, what guts.

Balls by Rex on the 4th down. Herm would have punted and Parcells would have called another halfback option.

 

The Texans also might have made the playoffs if:
* They hadn't fumbled at the goal line late in the fourth quarter against Jacksonville
* Matt Schaub hadn't thrown an interception in the last two minutes against Arizona
* Kris Brown hits tying field goals in the final minute against Indianapolis and Tennessee
* They didn't blow a 20-point lead at home in the rematch against Indy
* They don't throw a halfback pass that gets intercepted in the end zone -- on first-and-goal from the 5 -- in the second game against Jacksonville

But, yeah, the Colts screwed over the Texans. :

 

Eh, but that changes everything. If the ball were on the other side of the field, the playcalling likely changes as well and you may not even end up with the 4th and 1.

The Chargers are a joke, but this pisses me off because if the Jets do get by Indy, and the Saints blow it next week, Favre is going to be handed a Super Bowl by beating the fucking Jets.

 

I wouldn't fire Norv, but I'd fire Wade Phillips - or try to convince him to stay on as def. coordinator (I know he wouldn't). And as much as I wanted him to be the heir apparent, Garrett takes a big part of this loss (I don't blame Romo at all). They abandoned their running game before the coin toss - OK, the guys in the middle are tough, but what every game this year has shown you is that if you give Jones enough tries, he'll make big plays, he can bounce it outside too. Was Barber still hurt? Was Choice active? And then, if when you see that you aren't prtecting your QB at all (in large part because you decided to not run the ball), you have to scheme something better than leaving witten in on every play until the game was good as over. Is there a screen pass in the playbook?

All my friends are Jets fans who will be insufferable because their team has the best FG defense in history. This may have been the worst day of my football life.

& I agree to agree with Simms - kick away.

 

With 2 1/2 minutes left and one timeout, you have to do the onside kick.
Either way, you have to make a defensive stop (assuming you don't recover the kick). One first down and the game is over. And either way, if you make the stop you get the ball back with about a minute left around your own 35.
So what's the harm of the onside kick? Worst case scenario is either what happened, or they kick the long field goal and you have to score a touchdown instead of a field goal.
Give props to the Jets for going for it and executing. But don't slam the Chargers for going onside. It didn't work out, but they gave themselves an extra chance at the ball. If the Chargers kick it deep and the Jets get a first down and run out the clock on their own 35, people are blasting Turner for not kicking it onside.

 

The Jets would only have gone for it on a fourth and inches. It was well worth going for the onside kick.

Especially since the Chargers had to score a TD