The way you guys second guess the coaches play calling cracks me up. Everytime a play doesn't work - you would have done the opposite. It must be great to be so infallible. How about you make the call before it is actually run instead of chiming in after it is done?
All of a sudden, Sean Payton is the new Brad Childress. He can't do anything right.
The really obnoxious part of this is that New Orleans
did pass in that situation earlier in the game and everyone was screaming "why didn't they just run it with Ingram there?!?" Then when they do run it with Ingram in that situation, everyone screams "why didn't they pass it there?!?".Bottom line is regardless of whether they ran or passed, people would have said it was a great decision if it worked and it was a horrible decision if it didn't. Can you imagine what this board would have looked like if they had passed there and failed to convert? People would be going absolutely insane over them having two plays to gain a yard in the 4th quarter and not giving either of them to Ingram. We'd have seen "why did they even draft Ingram anyway, they don't even know how to use him" like 450 times.
Even Mike and Mike were getting in on the fun. The next morning Mike 1 was saying "I just feel like a play action bootleg in that situation always works. I don't think I've ever seen someone run a bootleg in a short yardage situation like that and have it not work".
Apparently, he forgot about what happened 10 minutes ago
in the same game when New Orleans had a 4th and 1 from inside the 10 and ran a bootleg that resulted in Brees running 20 yards backwards before finally throwing the ball into the ground. Sports fans have the shortest memories in the world.