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Date Posted: 22:57:37 01/08/03 Wed
Hello Gang,
Now that the excitement of the incredible win by the Niners has settled in a little bit more, I wanted to take a few minutes to take a step back to before the game and to most of the regular season.
Most of us have had our criticisms of Mooch or Garcia or both.
Before the Giants game, most of us were hoping to see the 9ers break from their predictable play calling and hoped for a passing game that spread the field a little bit more and included some deeper passes.
For nearly the entire first half and for the first series of the second half, I must say, that as far as I was concerned, I saw nothing that gave me hope that the coaches had stayed up late concocting a shrewd game plan that was going to suprise the Giants coaching staff.
On second and ten,early in the game,did anyone think that we might run the ball up the middle.WE DID!
On another series early in the game, when it was third and 10 or 12, did anyone think that we would end up throwing a pass, far short of a first down and end up having to punt.WE DID!
Then,on fourth and short we decide to go for it.Did anyone think that we might run Beasley up the gut.WE DID!
IF WE KNEW THESE THINGS, THEN SO DID THE GIANTS!
The point that I am trying to make is that if we didn't start getting our a$$es kicked, this game was going to be played darn near the same way that most of our other games were played.Holding on to win at the end or having the other team squeaking out a win at the end.
I think it was a blessing in disguise that we started getting our butts whipped.This forced both the coaches and Garcia to do what neither likes to do.Attack with a take no prisoners attitude.
I had to chuckle when I heard some people say that it was from brilliant coaching that we went to the hurry up offense.We had no choice but to go to it.By the way things ended, if we had waited 1 1/2 minutes longer than we did, we wouldn't have had the time to do what we did.
The players won this game.The coaches just needed to get out of the way.I am in no way saying that that there was no coaching involved in the last 20 minutes of the game, but it was coaching out of desperation, not a methodical, well contrived plan that had been worked on earlier in the week or earlier in the year for that matter.
With all this being said, I would like to add one more thing.When we had the ball for the final time, down by five, with about 3 minutes left,did anyone think that we were going to abandon the hurry up offense and try to churn out a ball control, time consuming drive, reminiscent of what we had attempted to do for most of the season.WE DIDN'T! and I commend Mariucci for that.
I only hope that Mooch has seen the light and realizes that he has gotten to the second round of the playoffs by NOT doing what he has been doing all season.
GO NINERS, LET'S ROLL
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