Avoiding the Shutout

[Daanie]

I think the Skins should have kicked a field goal
on 4th and goal in the 4th...

I mean whats the difference between 36-7 and 36-3?
as long as its not 36-0...

Now all this talk about Gibbs' first regular season
shutout...and the Giants first in 7 years...

Thoughts?

[PapaDRoc]

W/E, an *****kicking is an *****kicking.

[Lavarleap56]

As a coach you teach your players to play 60 minutes of football, when you are down 36-0 with a quarter left you need to show that you are coaching for 60 minutes as well.

[Voice of Reason]

I think there are more pressing issues right now.

And no, you don't kick the field goal to avoid a shutout.

[RVAbrendan]

Let the guys fight for a touchdown. It would be somewhat insulting to them to kick the field goal.

[rdskn4eva]

Im glad we got shut out. Gives the coaches more to ***** about. That was pathetic. No excecution what-so-ever!!

[seanyt]

For a second I was thinking the same thing, but then I figured FU*$ it maybe this can at least create a spark, not that we could make a major comeback but it would at least be nice to see if we could put 7-10 points on the board in the last qtr.

[Daanie]

Let the guys fight for a touchdown. It would be somewhat insulting to them to kick the field goal.

more insulting than headlines like "Point-Blanked",
and "Shut-Down, Shut-Out"?

[oriolesfan93p]

Kicking a field goal would have been the "cop-out" for avoiding the shutout. Gibbs was telling them that if they were gonna avoid a shutout, they were gonna have to score a TD. It was up to them to spare themselves the embarassment. I agree with the call all the way, a lesser coach would have been concerned with his own personal record of never being shutout before, but what was best for the team was to go for the TD, cause as far as the Offense was concerned, we were shutout anyways, wether we got that FG or not, the Offense didn't score, and that is why they went for the TD, so the offense could either completely earn their misserable shutout, or earn their way out of one. I could give a (insert explicative here) as to what the headlines say, we are a better team that went out to the game yesterday, and we have to prove it now.

[Brother Redskin]

Just like Herman Edwards said "You play to win the game". It was obviously an uphill climb but if we were to have any chance of coming back we needed TDs.