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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
The Charger's coach did them in man.
this is from ESPN.com Tuesday Morning QB
Norv Turner's decision to punt in New England territory in the fourth quarter when trailing by two scores might go down as the single worst coaching decision of all time. Let us count the ways in which the decision was ludicrous. First, the Patriots have the best offense in football history, so the odds of getting the ball back quickly without New England scoring were very low. Second, you need a touchdown and a field goal and are in field goal range. Why aren't you at least attempting a field goal? Sure a long field goal try might not work, but punting is guaranteed not to work! Next, San Diego coaches should have decided already, when the Chargers had third-and-10 on the New England 36 at the 9:36 mark, that they would go for it on fourth down. The opponent is the highest-scoring team of all time; you will not defeat those guys by passively punting the ball away late in the game. Yet rather than use "four-down thinking" and call a draw or similar play on third-and-10 so the fourth-down situation would be more manageable, San Diego's coaches called a midrange pass on third down, then, facing fourth-and-10, shrugged and punted.
By sending in the punt team, Turner quit on the game.
I agree withi this. I was furious that they would punt in the 4th quarter, in new england fucking territory, when trailing by ELEVEN fucking points!
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I have to disagree because Ciphers is a monster. He had like an 80 yard punt in the Indy game. This combined with the fact that the bolts d played very well pretty much throughout that whole game - the decision doesn't seem that big of a deal to me.
I don't remember what direction the wind was in the situation though, was it into or with?