Smitty
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You may be suggesting that it shows no situational awareness, but I'm saying it can't be stated definitively that it had any negative impact on us at all. You can't say that call cost us the game.Glad you asked that, because I can explain what I personally feel about that.
I am not subscribing to the idea that Dak should have fallen down at the 1 or whatever. No matter how likely it appeared that we would score, when you are down by more than a FG, you cannot just assume you are going to score a TD.
You don't just snap your fingers and score whenever you like. Even if the defense doesn't look capable of stopping you, you never know if you can have a fumbled snap or dropped pass or some other mistake that prevents you from scoring, so you cannot take that opportunity for granted.
Having said that, I would have been fine with Dak scoring on that 2nd down instead of 3rd. Yes, I would've lamented leaving Rodgers all that time, but due to what I said above, I would have no qualms with us scoring there.
My issue with the 2nd down pass into the corner of the endzone is that it is a blatant example of how Garrett just can't seem to grasp the idea of situational awareness and clock management. Throwing a low percentage pass like that in that moment suggests that Garrett is completely unaware of the circumstances -- circumstances that include the team and QB he's facing, how poorly his defense has performed in the 2nd half, and how that exact same team he's looking at just burned his defense 9 months prior to end their season.
Every single one of us on this board had ALL of those things in mind as that sequence was unfolding. So how is it possible that Garrett can be so oblivious to it?
It's the playcall that bothers me there because it suggests that Garrett, Linehan, Dak, or even all of the above were completely oblivious to both the circumstances surrounding that situation and our recent history with that opponent.
That play should never have even been an option on that 2nd down and that squarely falls on the coaching.
The fact that we scored by running on the very next play actually implies, if anything, that there's a good chance we would have scored one play earlier and left more time for GB.
I mean, whatever, people are gonna have their problems with Garrett's game management until he's gone, I don't think this one was particularly egregious, but I'm saying you can't be treating that call like it cost us the game.
I haven't been reading the board at all, but frankly I think this loss has to be nearly entirely on the defense. And Terrence Williams.