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Originally Posted by Lilmrp117

You need to use your brain as well. I understand some people have gone way overboard in attacking Andy and you feel the need to strongly defend him, but this is something that cannot be defended. What you are trying to do is rewrite history. I'll admit that Andy reid does some brilliant things and is mostly a great coach, but he has some flaws (particularly with time management) - flaws that are fatal to super bowl hopes most of the time - and you can't just gloss over these well-documented flaws and rewrite history just because we are feeling good about our chances right now or because you want to strongly defend him to some people who have gone overboard in criticizing him. If I can admit he does some brilliant things, why can't you admit that he has a flaw with time management?

Think about it this way - a 2 minute drill is something that should be planned and practiced BEFORE the game. So when's it's game time, you do not have to think about it as much and can do it quickly. Do you think it's likely that they practiced 2 minute drills before the game where they advanced the ball quickly and then when it was game time, they just decided to do the opposite and take 16 plays? No.

What happened is that they did not go into a 2 minute drill (even though there were more than 2 minutes left, it was effectively 2 minute drill time since we needed 2 scores). They did not go into an effective 2 minute drill mode because Andy had to call the perfect plays even if it took more time. He admitted this!

And surprise, surprise - it's NOT an isolated incident (Hello super bowl failure!).

So add the pieces together - Andy has a long reputation for mismanaging the clock, it's not an isolated incident (it even goes back to other QBs before Alex), and most importantly he admitted that he thought this was the right thing. There is a long-term pattern of this and he admitted he wanted it like this. C'mon.

Even if Andy had hoped that Alex would step up and make bigger plays, he was perfectly happy to accept what happened and he was perfectly happy with it for years with Alex. If it bothered him that Alex did not run the 2 minute drill like he wanted, don't you think he would have coached Alex to do it like he wanted or made some kind of change over the years? Remember, Andy said Alex was the perfect QB for his offense. Also, this same pattern started well before Alex Smith was Andy's QB. How hard would it have been to tell Alex, "I know you are cautious and don't want to throw INT's but in this situation, you need to take shots down the field b/c if we take 16 ****ing plays to score, you might as well throw the damn INT b/c we're going to lose anyway!"

For the bulk of Andy's career, McNabb and Alex Smith have been his QB's. If they were incapable of running the offense like Reid wanted and if what you are saying is true that it was the QB who didn't execute and caused the long drive, then Reid is even dumber than I thought for sticking with an incapable QB for so many fruitless years. Your argument, if true, is an even bigger indictment on Reid.

So you're argument is that Andy should've pulled Alex from that game in 2016 after Alex screwed up the first 6 plays?

You're take is completely reeruned. Stop replying to my posts.