Baseball. Fuck yeah. What's that? The Super Bowl is a week away? Well fuck that. Sure, I'm going to get obnoxiously drunk while watching it, and chances are I'm going to grope some things, but I won't actually care about the outcome. As a Philadelphian, my season ended twice.
First it ended when Donovan McNabb, pusher of all things chunky, suffered a seaon ending knee injury. Then Jeff "Wait, T.O. thinks I'm gay?!" Garcia has the nerve to rip off 6 straight wins, including a playoff game against Giants - suck it Kaufman - only to have some fat, mustacioed, overrated sack of giblets posing as a head coach sheepishly punt the season away. Were they probably going to convert 4th and 15? Of course not. But grow a pair and try anyway, the season was on the line. You fat fuck. And no, I'm not bitter.
ANYWAY, back to my original point - with the Eagles' season over, the Sixers playing comically bad basketball, and the Flyers having been dead to me since 2001, the Phils have center stage. Utley signed an extension. Ryan Howard will hit no less than 94 home runs. Brett Myers will only beat his wife in private. It truly is baseball season, and this is our year.
Unless, you know, it isn't. I mean, it's the fucking Phillies.
4 comments:
If they hadnt made the 4th and 15 you would be here writing that he should have punted and relied on his defense. Punting was the right move, no question about it. At that point you have to put your life in the hands of your defense. 3 timeouts.
Hmmm, the defense that hadn't stopped the saints running game all day? Less than two minutes left, you HAVE to go for it. Even if they stop the saints and get the ball back (presumably with no timeouts) the average play would have to be more than 15 yards to get into scoring range. I stand by my statements. Even the Fatman thinks punting was the wrong move.
4th and 15 was made only twice this year, out of something around 35. even bad defenses stopped good offenses at a better clip than that.
Look, there is no way around the fact that it was a terrible, inexplicable decision. Not once before the snap did I think "You know, they SHOULD be punting." The offense hadn't been moving the ball well all game against the Saints D (one drive and two big plays is not moving it well) and so even if the defense had held - which it hadn't been doing all game - they would have had a longer field with considerably less time when they got the ball back, which, it turns out, they never did. Terrible decision.
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