Loved this answer Of Harbaugh

[afan]

Okay John I get it. Just like last year against NE you don't call a T.O. and wide left. This year because you are rushing you get a int for a TD. Now after seeing what your reason is, if you call a T.O. you get to see what defense they are in and than the next play run to that weakness. To hurry in these crucial situations is really bad coaching and a waste of the T.O's you have. With three T.o.'s you can run the ball on all three plays and probably score so the question is did you out smart yourself and leave at least 3 points on the field. Bad decissions make for bad games.

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[Frank Costanza 831]

Typical excuse making from Coach Fraudbaugh. I've been calling for this clowns head since 2010 as Original Colts Fan and Can You Hear me Now can probably tell you. Only now do i think people are starting to understand where I was coming from

[tacker]

Idiotic challenges. Alternately squandering or not using timeouts. Periodic horrible clock management. Maintaining a weak, incompetent staff and defending their weak game plans and execution.

Oh, but he did take personal credit for calling for that Flacco knee in the Redskins game. That was impressive.

What is it, exactly, that Harbaugh brings the organization, as a head coach?

[Frank Costanza 831]

Idiotic challenges. Alternately squandering or not using timeouts. Periodic horrible clock management. Maintaining a weak, incompetent staff and defending their weak game plans and execution.

Oh, but he did take personal credit for calling for that Flacco knee in the Redskins game. That was impressive.

What is it, exactly, that Harbaugh brings the organization, as a head coach?

Been saying this since 2010 and i got laughed right off of the message board

[afan]

We hired the wrong brother but than again he is one of the winningest coaches in football. Some team would probably pay him much more than the Ravens. Maybe we could hire BB or even Bill C. Would that not be a hoot.

[SNAFU]

Harbs got a lot of timeouts saved up in 5 years. Are they drawing interest or something?

[Brohan]

Typical excuse making from Coach Fraudbaugh. I've been calling for this clowns head since 2010 as Original Colts Fan and Can You Hear me Now can probably tell you. Only now do i think people are starting to understand where I was coming from

It's the burden we clairvoyants must live with.

The archives don't forget tho...

[afan]

He needs a coach at the end of the half and end of a game to give him advice. It seems he is like the coach of the Jets, Edwards who could not manage the clock or his T.O.'s.This being said what else would he have left to do? A coach who is doing nothing on the sideline usually coaches losers.

[SNAFU]

He needs a coach at the end of the half and end of a game to give him advice. It seems he is like the coach of the Jets, Edwards who could not manage the clock or his T.O.'s.This being said what else would he have left to do? A coach who is doing nothing on the sideline usually coaches losers.

Why can't the 'eye in the sky' call the timeouts for Harbs? Jim Caldwell. He's got the best view of the game with TV monitors around him showing the time, and is 100% involved in the offensive plays. Or, let Flacco call the timeouts. I'm sure Brady, Brees, Rodgers, and Peyton Manning call timeouts when needed.

[TigerBlood]

“That’s coach’s call. That’s my call,” Harbaugh said Sunday when asked who was responsible for that particular play call. “We run that a lot. We’ve done that a lot this year. We’ve done it over the last few years. There’s a number of play calls that we have in that situation. Joe is trying to stick it in there for a touchdown.”


And we wonder why all of our receivers were blanketed on the play. Can you say predictable? "We run that a lot". Yeah, John, how about you change it up from time to time? You know, throw off the defense so they're not sitting on the routes.

[OriginalColtsFan]

Most knowledgeable football folks know that many games are won at the end of halves and at the end of games, particularly, obviously, close games. Good/great coaches excel in those situations. John Harbaugh does NOT excel in those situations. John Harbaugh is NOT a good/great coach, despite his W/L record.

[Ravens2006]

I think his TO / clock management is often horrible and he picks some ridiculous spots to challenge calls that seem obvious (to me) stand no chance of being overturned. Walking off the field at the end of the first half last week in D.C., with the series of plays they ran, was ridiculous.

That said, I don't have a problem with not calling the TO there. We gripe when they don't run the hurry up. They run some hurry up, go 70 yards in few plays, then we gripe when they make a mistake and say they should have slowed down.

I do have a problem with the choice of routes there. If you watch the coach's film, they more or less ran the same thing on each side. Pitta and Jones (?) on the right, with the wider side of the field, Smith and Boldin on the left, to the short side of the field. Both outside receivers ran straight ahead, and both inside receivers ran quick outs. Basically, they "bunched" themselves on both sides of the field. Joe chose the tighter side to throw to (bad choice), but nobody was REALLY going to get "open" in that set. The DB on Boldin just took a chance and jumped the route. Because they went to the shorter side of the field, jumping the route didn't really risk much. If the throw is high, so be it. If Joe pumps and Boldin cuts back up the field, then the DB on Smith (who might have been interfering early anyway) has a chance to drop off and try to take Boldin.

This goes back to the "route tree" issue... there's nothing happening on that play to create space. The miniature fly patterns don't do anything from the 4 yard line. The quick outs, from the 4, with your slower receivers (Boldin and Pitta) don't do much to create space. There was NOBODY running anything between the hashes, or even close to the hashes. Maybe if Smith runs a quick slant and takes the CB with him, Boldin runs a quick up and out, then he finds space in the endzone... especially since the CB jumped the route and wouldn't have recovered in time. I know this is a lot of "what if" but the routes are just too vanilla. Running all four receivers to the outside / sideline and intentionally bunching them close together, from the 4 yard line, seems like a poor choice to me. Whether Caldwell can change that quickly, we'll see. A few days to change their game-day playbook doesn't give you much time. They need practice reps to get timing and anticipation down. Whether Caldwell even BOTHERS to try to spice it up in the next few weeks remains to be seen. Put the Broncos / Manning in that same situation, and they're protecting with 6 or 7, giving Manning time to survey the field, and running the 3 targets back and forth across the field.

In that same alignment, with the coverage that the Broncos showed, Jones had a golden opportunity to run a quick slant in, head towards to goal post, and likely pick up a LB as his coverage... where you put it on Joe (assuming he's protected) to make a simple throw past a LB to the speedy Jones cutting across the end line. You just NEVER see this kind of thing unfold.

And what shows up on the coach's film that might have cost them 4 points, if not all 7... Ray Rice was in the pocket at the snap. He literally stood still for a split second after the snap, then cheated towards the right side off the snap. #52 for Denver blows through a huge hole right of Birk. Had Joe not thrown right away, he'd have gotten blasted and sacked. Anyway, if Rice picks the right assignment and chips the LB, I think Joe winds up making a tackle well short of the endzone. That LB wound up blocking for Harris and pushed Joe off line and backwards in pursuit. He recovered and almost chased the guy down. Might have caught him near midfield had he maintained his original line and speed. Little things...