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**Jags02** · 09-16-2019, 04:01 PM

(09-16-2019, 12:42 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(09-16-2019, 12:00 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: Do you think part of Ramseys frustration at Marrone was Ramsey thinking Marrone should have challenged because he told him to. Like having his back?

I get we have a system but when a senior player tells you it hit the ground, for some HC that's enough.

You shouldn't throw a challenge flag just because one player says you should throw it. People see what they want to see. Jalen wanted that to be an incompletion; his testimony is biased. That's not a comment on Jalen's personality or trustworthiness, just saying he's human. Think about it, if we should be sure it was a drop just because Jalen says so, why not have Jalen play referee and cornerback?
That said, Maybe Marrone could have called a time out and peeked at the replay if Houston was trying to quick-snap the next play. But it would have been more foolish to outsource his decisions to Jalen Ramsey. And it was really immature of Ramsey to keep fuming about it after the decision was made.

I hear you, and I also recall Marrone being burned before when a player was sure about something but was simply wrong. That said, it still suggests an issue with the team's inability to realize the call easily would have been overturned on replay. You could see the dropped ball hitting the ground. I suspect Marrone was not given the best information to make the call because you don't want to make that call if you have any doubt. In that respect, even though I do feel the decision to not throw the flag was the wrong decision, it's hard for me to say "Marrone was wrong" for not throwing the flag because maybe he simply didn't know.

On Ramsey, it's not like he doesn't need to grow up, but yelling at him on the sideline won't make just make that happen. Maturity is a process, and some of these guys including Ramsey are still young.

'02