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:	post by xmikex at 2009-11-16 09:14:00

I'm backing the 4th down call. I certainly didn't at the time, but in retrospect I'm standing behind it and here's why.

Manning throws 2 picks (his highest total of the year), and the wheels are clearly coming off the Colts offense. With about 4 minutes left to go Manning takes a shot down field to Austin Collie who is locked up like Area 51 by Darius Butler. You could show me that play 100 times over and I'm still convinced that Butler couldn't possibly have defended that pass any better. Pass interference. 31 yards down the field, and the Colts put together a 2 minute scoring drive that otherwise never would have happened.

Now here's what I want to know, and no one is talking about it. Why did the Patriots use 2 timeouts, BOTH of them with the clock already stopped, in their last possession? Why does Kevin Faulk blow a gasket when they call the first of the two? Kevin Faulk never expresses anger like that on the field. What happens that sparks an aberrant reaction like that? If you want my theory, I'm guessing that the QB/coach radio "all of a sudden" goes out... just like it always does for opposing teams in Indy with the game on the line, and the Pats are forced to use their final 2 timeouts to communicate.

Belichick looks at the situation. He sees the same old shit, and the same dirty bullshit going on with a team that gets away with it time and time again and realizes that if he doesn't keep Manning off the field they have zero chance of winning that game.

That's why he goes for it. That's why he never shakes Jim Caldwell's hand.

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