Big Ben.... Shut UP!!!

I think what happened was Ben indicated he was going to clock it, but then a play came in from the sideline, so he tried to get the guys ready to go for an actual play, but only a couple seemed to pick up on it. That's what it looked like to me, but I only watched the play the one time. I have no desire to watch that game again

 

There was 9 sec when Ben snapped the ball .... After recognizing Eli was blanked then throw it thru the uprights.... 4-5 sec left then kick the FG.... Time expires and we are in OT

Cajun

 

This points to coaching.... The Pats quickly lined up in a formation to stop a quick run up the middle and or Any Passing Rte..... They were prepared ie SB win vs sea chickens .....

Clock it or not, bad rte by Eli or not, mass confusion or not, the ball is in Bens hand.... He's the 20 mil probow SB winning Future HOF QB.... His only concern is to throw it away or force it into quadruple coverage with the game on the line. He made a poor decision, cost us the game and in his post game comments with the media blamed the confusion .... Game losing play... On the coaches.

Saying he should have made a better throw doesn't change it. Saying he threw a int that cost the game doesn't change it. Instead of saying I messed up and we lost he had to make excuses, blame the coaches for creating this confusion and added if left up to him we would have been in OT...... This is my whole point because it was still left up to him.... Throw it away!!!!

Cajun

 

If anybody knows about choking/doing the wrong thing in a crucial moment, it's Tony Romo!

 

No, it really doesn't. He said the coaches made the right call and he blamed himself for the throw.

 

It also looked like JJ was a millisecond from being wide open. He'd disengaged from his blocking assignment and it looked like no one went with him.

 

I must've been thinking of immediately after Juju's reception.

Either way, tie it and go into OT, I believe Brady/Gronk would have punked us anyway.

Right call, wrong route. You go for the win at home during the regular season. 99 times out of 100 that ball doesn't get INT'd and we end up with the FG on the next play.

 

Love this board. So many great points of view. But I still will NEVER understand why Steelers didn't have 2 plays ready after the over turn. There should be zero confusion. Zero. Furthermore, why wasn't 10 on field?? Especially if FADE is in play for last snap before FG?

 

D Will making his rounds on the radio saying "eat it Ben, don't throw your coach under the bus... The buck in that scenario stops at you... Own it and move on and none of this would matter it would've been nipped in the bud".

We all got opinions he owned it he trashed Haley again etc... I'm just hoping we don't get another round of locker room BS over it!

 

I don't give a flying eff what happened on the the last play and who's fault it was. JJ scored a ****ing TD and that should have been game over. Steelers win. **** the NFL and to hell with anyone who thinks otherwise.

 

My $0.02...

I've heard Ben make these same types of comments before. I can't speak to the man's intentions. But I can say that it sounds like he's throwing the coaches under the bus.

With all the time it took for the officials to overturn the JJ TD, I find it hard to believe that Tomlin/Haley didn't have options prepped in the case of the overturning of the TD call.

If Ben intended to clock, then I see a couple scenarios: 1) The coaches didn't communicate their intentions to Ben, or 2) Ben ignored it and said, "I'm clocking this ****e."

After that point, the only thing that matters is that Ben had the on-field team ready for a spike. So, he should have either spiked it, or thrown it out of the end zone unless there was a "gimme" pass with a high probability of completion.

If Ben gets the credit for being the field general, then he has to eat what happened out there from the point that he had the on-field team ready to spike but decided to run a play.

Also, I listened to the locker room talk and Eli said Ben gave him a signal right before the play. This lines up with others saying some of the players knew what was happening and others didn't.

 

And had the dummies thrown the obvious flag, maybe this debate ain't happening. Wished they didn't live in their fears or overturned victories and would've had the composure to game plan for the whoopsie scenario. It didn't, they didn't... On to Houston

 

This is what I was wondering.. was this a Dan Marino fake spike and try for the TD pass situation???

 

Wrong personnel because of coaching and poor situational football play calling..... Example- with 4 minutes of downtime two plays still weren't called in the huddle....

Poor coaching and poor QB play!!! NE got the win because we LOST the game, we beat ourselves!!!

Cajun

 

I think you nailed it Cajun, the TRUTH HURTS.