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To: Libertarian4Bush

You're a young pretender. Find a shrink.


2,280 posted on 01/30/2005 9:26:54 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: beyond the sea

I didn't like the pass play. Specifically I didn't like it on 2nd down, one of the lamer trends in the NFL today is to pass on 2nd and goal after failing to convert with the run on 1st and goal, it's so telegraphed and transparent most defenses now seem to expect it, you can almost see the coach saying "well the run didn't work let's pass", and you can see the opposing defenses think "well we stuffed the run, bet they try to pass". And the fact that Burress was double covered showed the Pats D was expecting the pass. And for a run oriented team like the Steelers to abondon the pass in that predictable a way is even worse. If a team is going to pass in X and goal it should be on 1st down when nobody expects it or 3rd down after having run on 1st and 2nd and demonstrated a commitment to the run. The only good thing I can say about that 2nd down pass is that it wasn't play action, which it frequently is when teams run on 1st and pass on 2nd, at least Cowher didn't try to pretend he wasn't abandoning the run on a play when everybody on the other team knew he was going to abandon the run.


2,282 posted on 01/30/2005 9:33:10 AM PST by discostu (quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
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