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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
But he has the green light to independently change the final play? Why would he have authority to change plays but not the authority to call a timeout? That’s what doesn’t hang together for me. He had multiple outs. Call TO on his own. If he isn’t “allowed” to do that then run the play that was called. If he is nervous about clock, throw it away and take the 58 yard FG or run forward for a closer FG.
Flus put him in that situation because he’s a terrible game manager. He got canned, as he should’ve been long long ago. But Caleb had multiple outs. And he not only independently made the td play call, he was so sure of it that he very slowly walked up to the line so that a throwaway wasn’t even an option if it wasn’t there.
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I didn’t say he wasn’t allowed to do it. I said he’s a rookie and he probably didn’t feel like it was his decision. I think he panicked when he saw there was just :10 seconds or so left and made an impetuous decision. I’m not saying he’s completely guiltless, but who’s the adult and who’s the first year 20-something kid?
I’ll put it another way: if I put your 23-yr old self in my Metroliner II at 20,000 ft and we have a left engine fire, you think you’re going to do everything correctly to get that plane on the ground safely? Btw, you have less than 3 minutes before the wing collapses. You’d have a few weeks training in a simulator with maybe a dozen reps at it, obviously no reps in a real plane.
And you’d have to assess that the engine really was in fact on fire, go through your memory items, attempt to put the fire out, shut down and secure the engine, call ATC and declare an emergency, ask for clearance to the nearest airport you could land at that had a long enough runway, get your descent clearance from ATC, contact the airport when appropriate, navigate to and fly the crippled plane to the airport, go through your landing checklist when appropriate, and finally land safely, all while your plane is on fire and before the wing falls off.
Just fyi, normal descent rates are between 1,500ft/min and 4,000. So you'd be descending at a rate far faster than anything you'd be accustomed to in a real plane to be on the ground in less than 3 minutes. That’s not the whole list of shit-to-do, but it’s close enough.
Or do you think the guy with dozens of years of experience in his job as a professional should probably take over the decision making/operational processes?