Tomlin On Last Couple Plays

Because it wasn’t an incomplete pass!

 

That’s kind of messed up that the refs told him it might be down short of the end zone with a running clock.

 

It had to be down short or a TD . As Coach T stated a incomplete pass was the least likely outcome in his mind . JJ had the ball and he had it when he crossed the GL . It was a TD no doubt about it.

 

It is but as soon as I saw the ball move I knew that’s what they were looking at. It took the commentators 5 minutes. I know Steeler football and it’s never that easy.

 

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I’m not getting sucked into this again. The Steelers lost. Next up Houston

 

Yes it says we did , but we really didn't . Nothing we can really do now so I am with you and going to move on .

 

Not really, they were just letting him know all the possible outcomes of the review. Sometimes it's hard to tell these things at full speed.

There's still no explanation for how unprepared the team was on that last play. That was just ridiculous. Ben and the coaches need to be on the same page with all these scenarios. It needs to be talked about before week 1. They all need to know when there isn't enough time on the clock to run a play. It shouldn't be guessing game at the line. The coaches wanted to run a play, Ben didn't. That's inexcusable. The reality is there was lots of time left to run a play, so I can't understand why Ben even wanted to clock it, but him communicating that to the rest of the team seemed to throw everything off.

 

Yeah not sure I'm buying what he is selling but hey he gets paid to deal with those things. Being a Cowher guy I like the way he handled the Troy interception during the divisional game in Indy in 05 and think a better job could have been done obviously but everyone has their own opinion

 

I don't buy that they were the most focused on a completion in bounds with a running clock and a ten second run off. I think the overturned possibility was the bigger issue and what the two or three plays they should be looking at should it get overturned. The foremost being maintain possession of the ball and not to let time expire before attempting a potential game tying field goal. Focusing one the completion and run off I mean why was that even mentioned by a ref? What is the infraction that leads to that? or am I misunderstanding and he was talking about the DHB completion where it looks like he fumbles out of bounds and we have a similar situation to the Ravens game?

 

I think Tomlin was saying they were under the assumption that it would be a TD or ruled short by what the ref told them. So they drew up a quick play so that if it was short they would have time for a shot at a TD and then field goal.

It didn’t turn out that way, and so the play they drew up they either ran the play as intended or scrapped it and called in a different one. By the route and how far away DHB was from scoring a TD I have no idea what they were doing.

 

With the new BS rules it made the field the 12th man..it caused JJ to lose it

 

it really does, I had people telling me he had to establish he is a runner for the breaking the plane rule to take effect. He was on the F-in ground already and the ball went from being caught to him moving toward his body to him lunging it across the goal line. It made a damn Z and people are acting like that motion was a result of making the catch. No the ground cause the ball to move.