[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

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 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, 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. 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?

Eberflus is no doubt the biggest culprit. But it just feels like it’s having it both ways. If he has no authority to call a sensible timeout without his coaches say so, then he also doesn’t have authority to change the final playcall. If he’s truly a puppet to his head coach then he would just run the play as was called, which I assume would have been a quick hitter instead of sending the entire team deep.