(01-25-2018, 02:26 PM)FBT Wrote:

(01-22-2018, 10:34 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I understand both sides of the argument, but we also kicked a long FG where a miss would have resulted in TB getting the ball at mid-field. My point is, it's not like the team doesn't take risks.

Bortles has always excelled in the 2 minute offense and to not even think he could pick up 40 yards with the way we were gashing them in the 1st half is pretty much a huge slap in the face.

There are one of two things going on IMO:

1. Bortles isn't good enough to run the offense Hackett wants to run
2. Hackett isn't a good enough coordinator to call a game plan suited to Bortles' strengths.

#2 seems to be the answer these days.

I think they simply felt momentum had swung to New England and they wanted to get to the locker room knowing they’d get the ball to start the 2nd half.  

I thought they should have at least run a play to see if they could get something started, but I think they were concerned that if they did, NE would have started burning timeouts to get one more shot before the half.  I did t like the decision, but understood it completely.

I don’t think it had anything to do with Bortles.  As far as Hackett is concerned, he had called a good game to that point.

New England only had 1 timeout left.  We really should have had 2 running plays called and ran them fairly quickly to see if one of them could have gotten a chunk of yardage and a first down.  Even if NE calls time out after a potential 2nd stuffed run play, we could run it again on 3rd or just kneel out the half at that point.  With only 1 time out, there was no threat from NE regarding clock stoppages.

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