11th commandment, Never, Ever, rush 3

[wist43]

Dah...

[MOBB DEEP]

reminds me of 4th and 26...

[wist43]

Capers will puke this kind of stuff up now and again...

His nature is to be conservative... there never a rationale, and never justification to rush 3.

All you're doing in that situation is giving receivers time to come uncovered, and giving the QB time to find them...

It's stupid.

[red]

i'll add a 12th

NEVER EVER PLAY JARRETT BUSH, don't let that worthless asshole anywhere near the field

[Bretsky]

i'll add a 12th

NEVER EVER PLAY JARRETT BUSH, don't let that worthless asshole anywhere near the field

didn't the Saints cut one of their vet CB's who use to star for the Ravens a couple weeks ago ?

[Fritz]

I'm just not a fan of rushing three, especially when your team's strength is in down linemen and linebackers.

Anybody know why Poopinga was on the field on that last drive?

[Bossman641]

I'm just not a fan of rushing three, especially when your team's strength is in down linemen and linebackers.

Anybody know why Poopinga was on the field on that last drive?

I'm guessing Matthews was gassed. It looked like he wasn't rushing on the final 3-4 snaps.

[channtheman]

Did that last drive remind you all of every game last year? Eerie to think about.

[wist43]

In that situation, the clock should not be a consideration...

It is about getting a stop on 4 successive downs... and the best way to do that is generate pressure. On the few snaps that we did get pressure, we almost put the game away.

By going "prevent"... all you do is allow the opposition to put themselves in a position to take shots into the endzone... dink and dunk their way down to the 15-20 yard line, still 20 seconds or so left... plenty of time to take shots into the endzone.

Rushing 3 is just as idiotic today, as it was 20 years... painful to watch too.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I'm just not a fan of rushing three, especially when your team's strength is in down linemen and linebackers.

Anybody know why Poopinga was on the field on that last drive?

I'm guessing Matthews was gassed. It looked like he wasn't rushing on the final 3-4 snaps.

Matthews was in the game. He was playing coverage on most plays.

[Fosco33]

Prevent D generally prevents a W

[channtheman]

Prevent D generally prevents a W

This is true. I am constantly amazed at how many dumb shit coaches run the defense. It NEVER works and you lose the game. They have to run it though. Stupid stupid stupid.

[mraynrand]

I hate to get on the refs, but if they're going to call everything, they needed to call the gross holding on Jolly on that last play. That was absurd. If you guys didn't see a close up, it will make you steaming mad when you get your chance. O-lineman had a fistful of jersey. Disgusting, especially since they called everything else on that last drive.

[Patler]

Penalties on the final drive hurt more than just rushing three.

[Fosco33]

I hate to get on the refs, but if they're going to call everything, they needed to call the gross holding on Jolly on that last play. That was absurd. If you guys didn't see a close up, it will make you steaming mad when you get your chance. O-lineman had a fistful of jersey. Disgusting, especially since they called everything else on that last drive.

There was a decent hold on either the 3rd and 15 or 4th and 7 on that drive as well. They only called one of the 3 on that drive. They weren't calling it very consistently all day - on either team.

By the 2nd Q - you can pretty much figure out how the refs will call the game. The Pack should have realized we'd get hit for most of the def holding/PI calls and wouldn't get oline holds very often. Which is even more amazing that we didn't try some more running plays. 2 min left - on the 40. We score in lightening fashion.

With a running game and confident kicker - we get 2 first downs, run the clock down and kick the FG. In hind sight, the onside penalty worked in Pitt's favor as neither D wasn't stopping anything - whoever had the ball last would win.