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‹ First < 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 > Last ›It's not second guessing. It just looks really silly to do the above and then basically run out of time two minutes later.
I suppose I can forgive the timeout before the 3rd down play - but not really, because you really need to save your timeouts just in case. You should be ready to roll with these goal line plays.
yes. lewis had about a half dozen tackles
If it's first-and-goal from the five, how do you not give it to him at least ONCE during the next four plays?
John Harbaugh should have stopped the clock. Jim had little reason to. Jim needed to score and if possible use as much time up as they could. John needed as much time as he could get if he got scored on.
Anyway, great game, even if the government tried to throw it to the Niners by conspiring to shut off the power.
Yeah, your best chance of winning the game there (by far) is to score and not leave Baltimore time to kick a field goal. Calling a timeout to preserve time would have been a bad move.
You must have missed the full out tackle on the 49er trying to get to the punter...
How silly was it for the announcers to keep talking about momentum, particularly as related to the power outage? And after the game too with Sharpe and Esiason.
Gang, if you get three or four momentum swings during the game, as Sharpe said, then it ain't momentum and there is no such thing.
Which, even though I was annoyed with it, was a really good play. They should have held every Niner they could, by the facemask if necessary. If it would have helped they could have lined up offsides and put guys in motion illegally too.
Well, there was some insane holding on that play.
Offensive penalty to get the 10 second runoff! Surprised this didn't happen, actually.
Eh. Theys are touchin' each other in the end zone. But I figure it's one for Sam. They aren't going to call that. I would have like to see a play where Kaepernick has a better scramble option.
Game was basically: Ravens receivers catch everything, Niners recievers don't.
And we see it on the hail mary plays at the end of games.
Memo to Phil Simms: Just because the refs don't call this stuff doesn't mean it's not a joke.
No time.
But thankfully we're done with Ray Lewis, for all practical purposes. What a clown that guy is, with absolutely nothing interesting to say about anything.
Not very considering that the 49ers played significantly better after it and the Ravens played worse. I think terms like "momentum" are overrated but it's hard to it didn't have some kind of effect.
Offensive penalty to get the 10 second runoff! Surprised this didn't happen, actually.
What's the rule on that, though? I know the game can't end on a penalty in a situation like that, but would they allow any time at all to run off the clock? I'm not 100% sure, but I think that they'd just have penalized the Ravens half the distance to the goal line and then reset the clock back to whatever it was before, either 10 or 12 seconds.
Why? What would cause the effect?
Not really. The Ravens made two key drops in the second half that killed their drives. Both passes were right on the money, too.
But that was the point, wasn't it?
They didn't want to score TOO quickly, and they still had two time outs.
If you can't run off 3-4 running plays in 2 minutes with 2 time outs...
Everyone was taken out of their rhythm by the game suddenly stopping for a bizarre reason. Routine was broken, and people respond differently to that.
I do think we need to figure out if we want the game to be called differently with two minutes left. Let them play? Or call it by the book? Right now, 'let them play' is certainly winning out, for better or worse.
This is simply an unprovable after-the-fact assertion, which is useless.
You'd have done better if you'd said that the break gave the 49ers defenders a chance to rest, or something. That would be a tangible cause. Though it would still not be momentum.
Which also can't be proven. You asked why people were talking about momentum and the power outage. They were talking about it because it was the point where the 49ers started playing better. You can draw your own conclusions why.
Geez, was Crissy Snow not available for post game quotes?
oh, and also, that because of halftime and the kick return TD and the blackout, the baltimore offense went damn near an hour and a half without running a play, and it took them a while to get back into the flow of the game.
It sure helped put them in a quick hole, but the truth is that both teams made enough bad plays and got enough breaks that it's impossible to play the "what if" game without recognizing that it cuts both ways. If the Niners had pulled it out, the Ravens could've lamented Rice's fumble, those two key dropped passes, a couple of (well deserved) critical penalties, the failure to convert twice within the red zone, and a badly shanked punt. Those plays are no less real because they didn't flip the final result. It was a terrific game in terms of drama and excitement, but neither team was nearly at its best.
Agreed. The delay of game, if they weren't going to hand it off, wouldn't have necessarily hurt them much. The field was extremely compressed with the ball inside the 5, the penalty would have opened the field up for passing.
Ray, when you win, you can say any ####### thing you want. There isn't a sports team on Earth without a roster full of Christian psychobabblers who can drive any sane person crazy if they're insane enough to listen to him. There's a very good reason to wait till the opening kickoff to turn on the sound, and to turn off the TV once the final gun has sounded, and to hit the pause button during commercials when you're recording the game.
I don't know about this, but the penalty for holding in the end zone is a safety. So Darren is right - the Ravens should have done *everything* in their power to keep the defense away from the punter for as long as possible.
I don't think so. Once the Niners failed to score, they would have loved to have it back. But it's still just the difference between 45 seconds left and no TO and four seconds left and no TO. Neither are very promising situations. Inside the 10 was their best chance. I wouldn't squander it to save a TO (though ordinarily, I agree with the idea of not trading a TO to save five yards).
And I thought the non-call was fine. He initiated contact within 5 yards, and contact was maintained for the next two. Had he initiated contact later, or re-engaged, it would be flag-worthy. But continuous contact is generally, though not always, allowed.
Ray Lewis does have two Super Bowl rings...
Yes, yes, yes. All three timeouts should be saved for the end of the game, almost without exception. I suppose I could see a need to take one on a big third down play - as Jim H did tonight - but that in itself indicates a breakdown in coaching to me.
True, but there's nothing that compels anyone to listen to any of them, and he's hardly the only jock with a criminal past who does the Jesus bit. Avoiding their babble completely is one of the things that makes sporting events infinitely more enjoyable.
Of course masochists might beg to differ, but that's another story.
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