Bills Kick Returner Made Right Decision

Bills Kick Returner Made Right Decision And note the 100% complete wrong decision was to take an IMMMEDIATE knee and stop the clock at 2:04 giving NE an extra time out. I would be ok if he ran around the end zone and then took a knee at 2:00, but clearly the right play was just to return the kick, protect the ball, and get it down to 2:00, robbing the PAts at the 2:00 timoeout. If you are so concerned with fumbling just take a knee, then 1st and 10 at the 20 take 3 knees.....and punt with 1:40 left, and lose 1/2 the time!!!!! The Bills played it right...they just got unlucky.....and DID make a poor judgement choice when their kick returner stuggled for the extra yards, no gain from that to be had.

I agree with that all the ESPN squares said for him to take the knee when they don't analyze the clock. It would been a great start for NE under season wins that Bills let get away.

What he shouldn't have done is fight for the extra yard after he was already wrapped up. That yard made no difference considering the clock. Plus it is pretty obvious the opposing team would try and strip the ball. I agree about not taking a knee.

Yep. He should have taken it and headed directly towards a sideline...either sideline...when he knows 4 seconds have been run off he either goes down around his own 15 or runs out of bounds. Game Over....Bills win.

my problem with it was that that is not why he came out he said he came out b/c he wasnt sure that if he took a knee it would be a safety or not

[QUOTE=Fezzik;2920] I would be ok if he ran around the end zone and then took a knee at 2:00, but clearly the right play was just to return the kick, protect the ball, and get it down to 2:00, robbing the PAts at the 2:00 timoeout.[/QUOTE] runnin gin the end zone wouldn't have started the clock. he needed to come out. a little biased here but all those NE u11.5 tix are garbage. U12 might win.

[QUOTE=roughrider39;2922]I agree with that all the ESPN squares said for him to take the knee when they don't analyze the clock. [B]It would been a great start for NE under season wins that Bills let get away.[/B][/QUOTE] Meh, a lot of us have both teams under for season wins.

I have NE U12 and still think it cashes. Their schedule is very difficult and I didn't even consider a loss to Buffalo. Their D is average at best, especially with Seymour gone and the O not jumping out to 35-0 leads anymore, and Buff ran all over them. And OL allowed many hits on Brady. I still see 10-6 or 11-5 for them at best. I now think the division teams will all give them more than they can handle, especially at home. I think Miami is only +3 at home this Monday night. As a Charger fan, that play reminded me of the playoff INT where instead of going down the SD DB tried to run more and fumbled back to NE. He was fine coming out and just couldn't fumble - just don't know what these guys are thinking. To me it does go to coaching - you need to do the old Little League "what will you do if the ball is hit to you?" - need to coach these guys up on the situation. Because it's obviously not a slam dunk that these guys have common sense. But if you assume HC plays conservative, they run 3 plays and punt and NE has ball at 35 with no TOs and about 1:30 to play. 50/50 they still come down and get TD. I still say NE goes 11-5 at best this year.

Good points it amazes me how these athletes get paid this kind of dough and most don't know situational football and most don't even know the rules.

Tough one. Without a defined plan to run clock SAFELY, the touchback would have been better. Returner should have run to the point of opposition, then veered out (but not out of bounds). We saw the thinking-man's version of this when Denver's Stokely ran across the field at the endzone before crossing.