Luckily Indy's coach got too cocky and thought they could make that first down. Even BOB wouldn't do that....lol. We got a gift in Indy.
The game yesterday was weird if for no other reason than because it was the first time in a long time (maybe ever?) where B'OB looked better than the other coach when the game ended.
O'brien is so predictable, it is staggering, maybe if he hired a play caller and just stayed as HC this team would have a chance....but man his clock management and use of timeouts sucks BALLS.. DD
He basically did do that at the end of the 4th right? With about a minute left he burned 20 seconds by running Lamar Miller. Then Watson makes a great play to get in FG range, but 59 yards was just too much. Another play would have been nice.
Another play would've been nice. So would their final time out they blew in vain to stop that 2-point conversion. It's like he has all of the terrible game management skills of Andy Reid but none of the offensive capability.
Think it was a draw play for Blue. Someone tweeted it out, 45 seconds with Watson and Hopkins to get into FG range and BoB runs a draw play for Blue. I’ll always take a win over a loss but damn Frank Reich for being dumber than BoB at that moment. Yesterdays game was an embarrassment.
To be fair, saying they did very little is just wrong.. They replaced 4 of the 5 people on the line that sucked last year. Did they do the RIGHT things? Doesn't look that way, but they at least did SOMEthing.
Well to be fair to your to be fair ... whether they did the right things or not is the basis of everything. If they replaced all the o-line with 5 random clutch BBS'ers, i'd basically say they did nothing.
I love Honey Badger. Hope we can lock him up. Seems like a really solid leader that already commands the locker room.
how does this guy get a 5 year extension??? it's incredible how inept he is at the most critical moments. to think that the only reason they walked away with a W is because frank reich bailed them out with perhaps one of the worst calls in modern NFL history.
I don't see how firing O'Brien is going to help. It's not like there's any good head coaching candidates out there. I don't want to hear the whole "he's a terrible play caller" excuse. The playcalling is fine, it's the execution that's the problem, but they can't execute when they have the worst O-line in football. There's a reason why O'Brien is a highly sought after coach, if he's fired he will easily have another head coaching job and fans will continue to complain about the new coaches playcalling just like they did with Kubiak and now, Obrien.
The playcalling is okay outside of any end of half/game situation, that's when BoB has completely failed time and time again. He'll get another head coaching job and maybe he'll do better there, but clock management has been and continues to be an issue. This has cost us multiple games.
The issue with Bill O'Brien is not his play calling. Most people want him fired for his game management. I'd be totally fine if he wanted to stick around as the offensive coordinator and we brought someone in to manage the game. Game 1 We lose by 7. Did not call timeout on the Rob Gronkowski catch\no catch in first half that eventually led to a touch down. Had no sense of urgency in the fourth quarter and ran too much time off the clock on our last scoring drive. Game 2 We lost by 3. Stupid special teams decision leads to a touchdown. He showed his hand the week before in New England and got burned. Wasted timeouts throughout the game when we needed them later on to stop clock. Why did he accept the penalty on Gabbert for illegal forward pass if it was not a loss of down? We needed the time and down more than the yardage? Game 4 Why did he waste the timeout with 45 seconds left when they were going for two? Could have used it on offense. Why did he call a draw play with 45 seconds left? Could have used those 20 seconds. Why does he kick a field goal to tie the game with 2 minutes left on our own 5 yard line? We are 0-3 what is the point of a tie. 0-3-1 might as well be 0-4. He does not trust his players. We never take any chances unlike the new coaches who take calculated risks. Now that we have Watson we have to trust him to make plays.
