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Originally Posted by CletusPyle
I thought that Steichen went full Frank Reich at the end there ...... take the damn FG, and kick the on-side kick !!!
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The only reason why I understand why they did that was because Richardson was tackled in-bounds with the clock running on 4th down, and the Colts only had 2 TO's left. If they had had 3 timeouts left, I would have run the FG unit out there to kick a field goal, and then kicked it deep and used my 3 timeouts on defense to try to get the ball back with about one full minute left ......
OR, if Richardson had been tackled out of bounds to stop the clock on 4th down and the Colts had had 2 timeouts left I would have sent out the FG unit (with the clock stopped) to cut the deficit to 7 points, then kicked it deep, used the 2 timeouts that I had remaining, and then gotten the ball back with about 50 to 55 seconds left to play.
Because of those circumstances that had occurred (Richardson being tackled in bounds on 4th down
AND the fact that the Colts only had 2 timeouts left), I would not necessarily say that he went full Frank Reich on that particular sequence.
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That said, I think that you you
COULD question Steichen's brain-freeze in the 1st half when instead of challenging the bad spot on 3rd down deep in Jaguars territory, he rushed a play by the offense. The offensive line had no time to get set, and they were subsequently stopped cold by the Jaguars' defense. Steichen made
TWO mistakes there .......
1) ) He did not challenge the bad spot.
2) ) Even if he had lost the challenge, the Colts' offense would have plenty of time to call a play on 4th and inches, and the offensive line would have had plenty of time to dig in and try to get their feet underneath them (something which they were not able to do because Steichen chose to instead try to rush the play on 4th down.)
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