Submitted by joseph Barone, Jan 7, 2008 21:48

How does this call make it off the sidelines? This debacle starts from the top! I'm feeling every bit of emotion that I felt from the 1994 Playoff loss to the Chargers. This is not so much about losing, other then how they lost. Mike Tomlin is every bit the coach Bill Cowher is..Marty Shottenhiemer is...Dennis Green is...Brian Billick is...etc..You get the point! There is no excuse having 2, not 1, but 2 pop warner calls. And a professional football coach can't make that call? We aren't perfect as people. I get that. But too have your team lay their blood and guts on the line only to be undermined by an incompotent, uncapable, and unreliable leader. Is humiliating! Your gettin Paid Elite status money to make elite status desicions. This is so trivial and so elementary, it has me pondering the thought that Tomlin was paid off! What other reason can there be?

Najeh Davenport returning kicks? Out of all these professional players making millions on your team, you have a man who can't break one, no chance to break one, and in dire need of field position returning your only hope? How long have we waited to have a coach that was finally going to play to win and not too lose? This is what they replace Bill Cowher with. Someone who is making the same exact mistakes as he did? Bill only learned 14 yrs later to be aggressive and when he finally did they win the Super Bowl. There's something missing here and ITS IQ! They ask Willie Colon, "where do you think the team went wrong in the game? And he says, we should have stayed with the run! WHAT PLANET IS HE ON?

Who makes that 3rd down call? A team has the ball..the lead..the clock..the homefield advantage..the momentum. Your throwing the ball at will..your leading running back is hurt...Your on your own 25 with a 1 point lead..it's raining..the punt is not going more then 45 yards in the air..Jacksonville has all theit timeouts with 3:30 secs left. AND YOU RUN IT 3 STRAIGHT TIMES FROM YOU OWN 25? Are U kiddin me??? How is this coaching performance any different then that the 96 world series. When the ball went through Buckners legs? IT"S NOT!

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