Fisher and his 'Keep it Close Mentality'

When you're in your redzone twice to end the 3rd quarter, I'd prefer a touchdown inside the first 3 downs. On 4th, take the damn 3 points every time. This respect for Peyton is getting out of hand. Take your 6 points, go into the 4th with a very manageable deficit and trust your defense. Fisher is so sporadic with taking chances, his own players don't even know how to execute when they're called to pull magic out of their :grrr::grrr::grrr:.

Very poor playcalling. Very poor coaching to go for broke with so much time left. Once again, we look very dead in the water and our season will likely be over in 4 weeks.

 

Hers my coaching philosophy:

If you have players that can execute the plays in the playbook, then you call the plays that will help chip away at the yardage in front of you. (If you don't have the players in place, go back many many steps) We have those players ready to go right now, and maybe not next year after FA.

I understand throwing those phantom passes deep to keep people out of the box helps use the play action and run the ball, but it doesn't get you closer to a 1st & 10. It seems at times that Fisher and Co. like to call something to set something up later. That works only if your able to move forwards at will. The Titans needed every play plus some this past Sunday in Indy. So they couldn't afford to blow a 2nd down which they did.

If I were doing the play calling I would take advantage of every possession and march down field towards the end zone. That seems stupid to say, but knowing you'll F-up at some point in the game you need to leave a margin for error by relentlessly putting yourself in scoring range (FG or TD). Again, this sounds remedial but is true. Jeff and his staff fail to do this far too often. Fisherball blows in the pro's, and isn't cutting it.

Of course if we're 6-6 today Fisherball is great. But fact is Fisherball has never won much. And probably never will. I can't wait til 2012 when he's gone.

 

This sums it all up perfectly.

 

I def dont question the idea of going for it on 4th down inside the red zone against #18 BUT after a timeout from the Colts, you throw a fade to a rookie(a good rookie, but still)?? I think that CJ and VY need to be the playmakers there.. Or Lendale needs to be in there to punch it in. Of course if it had worked we would all be here praising the call for Britt in the back corner of the end zone so at the end of the day could we really do it better? We could call great plays but if they arent executed we would be getting all this grief. Fact is we had 2 turnovers to their 0. It wont win you games in Dec against a good team. PERIOD!

 

Because regardless of coaching style, common sense is still important. He showed no signs of it.
Just like his crazy unlikely to work "trick plays" that he runs once or twice a year that has everyone thinking 'WTF?'. (see Chargers game a year or 2 back). One stupid play doesn't make everyone happy because he wasn't conservative for once.

 

My issues are not with them going for it as I feel that was the right call both times.


My issue is with the plays that were called. Yes, Britt has the height advantage, but thats a low percentage catch and perfection was needed. Young to Britt is nowhere near perfect yet, so I dont like that call.

Then on the other one, it seemed like it was 100% going to Hawkins. There didn't seem to be any set up or alternate routes, the play was designed to go to hawkins and basically he was either going to be covered good(which he was) or covered bad. They seem to both have been very bad play calls.


Also in line with that Idea, I thing the plays leading up to the 4th downs were bad play calls. I mean you come out of a timeout, from the 2 yd line, and do a QB sneak? then you run cj up the middle, get a penalty, do something that any normal team could accomplish. I mean every team in the NFL has little play action/hit the TE in the back of the endzone, yet this team gets inside the 10 and reinvents the wheel every game or something.

 

ya with the colts you have to go for it, but im still going to put a lot of the blame this year on fisher for the teams lack of preparation at times, situational blunders, and lack of personal depth.

 

Fisher was a fault for not playing conservative and kicking the damn field goal. this is a strange week to be complaining about that.

Down 24-10 with 18 minutes remaining in the game we should have played conservative and showed some confidence in our defense and took the 3.

Then we would not have been forced to go for it on 4th down with almost 11 minutes to go.

2 FGs makes the score 24-16 with over 10 minutes to go.