(09-15-2019, 05:32 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: Worst coaching decision call of the week?

Jaguars - Running for 2 point conversion up the middle when Minshew had some rhythm.

Panthers - 4th and 1 with Trick running play to sidelines instead sneaking with Newton.

Panthers' was worse: the shortest path to the endzone is forward. I can at least understand the logic behind trying to catch the Texans off-guard by giving the ball to their top 5 draft pick rather than the hot-handed 6th round rookie. It was a stupid decision, in my book, but at least there was some semblance of logic behind it. Panthers' decision didn't make any sense to me.

I was on the fire Marrone bus last week after his post-game comments re: Jack. This week he improved a bit with better discipline on the field. Of course, then you have Ramsey and Harrison throwing a hissy-fit on the sideline, so I'm not actually sure it was worthwhile improvement. So I'm still on the "fire Marrone" bus, especially with the horrific 2pt playcall. 

That said, I do need to buck the trend of criticizing Marrone for not challenging the Hopkins catch; I can't fault Marrone for not challenging. With how the game wound up going with ref calls, do we really believe the refs would have reversed the call? I'm of the opinion that the Jags had a better chance of losing a timeout and a challenge than winning that challenge. And I'm not sure the potential of getting the call reversed was really worth the risk of losing a challenge that early in the game. Sure it helped the Texans score 3 points, and sure the Jags wound up not needing 2 challenges anyway, but it was an early score and ideally you expect your team to be able to respond somehow. For instance, if Ramsey didn't drop his pick-6, we probably don't even care about the challenge at this point. Knowing the team couldn't make-up a FG in hindsight makes the no-challenge look worse than I think it really was.

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