Southpaw

Taking a knee and losing a yard on 3rd down. The man is so typical of defense oriented head coaches. 3 games on the road and overtime and he still didn't learn. Hackett gets the blame for play calling , yet Edwards won't turn it loose. All he wants is close games. The man's got great ofensive players and refuses to use them. With that defense , the Jets should be going to the Super Bowl. So why won't he try scoring some damned points? Moron, I think.

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DjaugheOld

lol...sucks fer the kicker who missed twice...

Russ Smith

We think alike. IN fact I was watching pretty closely and it seemed like Pennington was saying the same thing as if he A) wanted to actually try and get the first down and B) was wondering why in order to "Center" the ball, they intentionally lost yardage for a kicker who'd just hit the crossbar.

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JeffGollin

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Southpaw

Think about this. Edward's knows his kicker blows, yet he still sets him up for failure. The buck has to stop with Herman. He restricts his offense, so that most games come down to a FG kicker who can't hit a bull in the butt with a board.

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GreenCard

Was'nt Pennington's last play just to run off two extra seconds?

Russ Smith

But he LOST yardage, which for a kicker who just came up short a few minutes ago seemed kind of Bass ackwards to me.

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ajcardfan

I'm telling ya, you throw at LEAST ONE out-and-up, or slant-and-go, with a strong pump fake. That way, you take at least one shot at a TD, giving yourself two chances to score instead of one. It was gutless coaching by Edwards this week, and Schottenheimer the week before. They both deserved to lose.

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ajcardfan

He also failed to get it to the middle of the field. It was the stupidest call of the playoffs so far.

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Stout

The 'taking the knee' play was stupid on so many levels. I was rooting loosely for the Steelers, and had a friend over who is a Jets fan. We both figured they'd try on third down, so if the snap was messed up, they could try again. Then they come out to run a play. We were a bit confused, but okay, maybe to center the ball...whatever. Then he takes a knee to run the clock down. ??? we're thinking. THEN he leaves extra time on the clock. THEN he finally gets the kicker in.

No sense at all. Not as bad as Tice's decisions, but still.

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LVCARDFREAK

I was rooting for the Jets and could not believe he missed those. Bad play calling-Hackett will be fired I think. Edwards will probably get an ultimatum from Bradway saying fire Hackett or your gone.

JeffGollin

I was rooting for the Jets and could not believe he missed those.
I was rooting against the Jets and felt it was pretty much 50-50 (both times) that Brien would blow it.

On a parallel topic, did anyone else find themselves in the predicament of having to root for Philadephia over the Vikes because, "if the Vikes were to win & go on to the Super Bowl, Dennis would have a harder time prying some of his former players (like possibly Hovan) away from that team after the season was over?"

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clif

I was more rooting for the Eagles, because the Vikes had no shot against ATL and I did not want the Falcons to go to the superbowl. They just seem to be too cocky. I like the fact that the eagles have been battling for years now and I think they deserve a superbowl visit.

LVCARDFREAK

WHY? He was 97% from that range in his career and something like 10-12 from 40-49 thisb year. Seems like he SHOULD have made it to me.

football karma

Herm's mistake was that the Jets O had Pitt on their heels after what seemed like a killer Ben R turnover--

he gets to what he feels like is field goal range at the 25 yard line, and totally goes conservative with two handoffs into the middle of the line.

If you trust your QB not to do something stupid at midfield, why not at the 25 yard line? At the 25, you have a 42 yard field goal-- makeable, but not a chip shot-- particularly when you consider the field conditions to be so-so.
Throw a 7 yard hitch pattern and turn that 42 yard attempt into a 35 yarder.

What is even more inexcusable is that the Jets wouldnt even have been playing at Pitt had Marty S not done THE SAME THING the week before.



In many respects, this was the Denny G offense. Move the ball between the 20's -- get into field goal range and then hand it off to Emmitt three times and kick the field goal.