From: johnm@meaddata.com (John Manley)
Subject: Bring back Fuller (Was: Re: Harbaugh Gets Ass Chewing)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:05:56 GMT

In article <ld3jv2INN959@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> mre@teal.Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Eisler) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.200451.23916@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
>>  Just one:  Why bother creating audibles if you're gonna jump the QB when
>>he calls one?  Yeah, the pass was INT, but that can happen anytime.  Ditka
>>was probably just in a bad mood, but I think it shows a complete lack of
>>sense if he lets it stand (not to mention class).

You don't jump the QB for calling an audible. You jump the QB for making
a bone-head move that most high school QBs wouldn't make ...especially when
it costs your team an extremely important ball game that they had wrapped
up. If Ditka wasn't in a bad mood after that play, he had no pulse.
>
>I didn't get the game, as CBS decided we should endure the N.O/Detroit
>stupor. However, it seems to me that when you are up by under 3 scores
>with a full quarter to play, you desperately want to take time off the
>clock. Throwing a medium depth pass on a drive that you really don't
>need points out of is a bad option when you are near your own 20 yard
>line. Even if its 3rd and long, take the run. If you go to 4th down,
>the punter will still have adequate room to kick, and at worse the
>Vikings will have to move the ball 50 yards (chewing up time); a good
>bounce, and its 60 or 70.
>
>The Bears defense allowed 14 points. This is hardly shameful and it
>amounts to their best performance all year. If the D had given up the
>points in the first half, 7 each quarter or even 14 in one quarter,
>people would be dumping on the offense for not scoring enough and
>for allowing the pick, i.e. agreeing with Ditka.

At last, an intelligent voice...and you didn't even see the game!!
All I've been hearing is "well, it was just *one play*, what's the 
big deal?" The minute I saw that ball sailing towards a fallen 
Anderson, I knew it was lights out. (Having just returned from watching
Notre Dame blow a 16-0 lead to Stanford didn't help I guess :-( )

That was the most ignorant play I have ever witnessed watching Pro
football. I had to remind myself that it wasn't Tomczak. You are up
by 20 points w/ 14:00 left...the opposing crowd/team is completely
out of it....whattya do? Throw the most dangerous pass in football
(with your eyes closed?) to put them right back in it. Instant
7, no time off the clock, crowd finally wakes up, defense is fired up,
game over. Then when I found out that Harbaugh called *an audible*...
I almost lost it. Ditka goes out of control sometimes, but in this case
I'm surprised he didn't take his frickin' head off. Bring back Steve
Fuller and the days of a worthless QB who is smart enough not to *LOSE*
it for you! Anybody got McMahon's number??

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