Karma .............

I would rather a team play to win rather than play not to lose.

With about 2:40 left in the game, the Panthers used their last time out. The Saints had the ball on a 3rd and 8. Billick said that the Saints should run so that they could run the clock down to the 2 minute warning.

I disagreed. I wanted either a safe screen or a bubble screen over the middle. I would have told Brees to not worry about taking a sack either.

Well, we threw it to the tight end and it was incomplete.

So, we had to punt with 2:30-something on the clock.

We downed the ball on the 2. BUT, it was clear that Roby came out of the endzone. Unfortunately for Carolina, they were out of time outs so they couldn't challenge the play.

Had we run the clock down to the two minute warning before punting, then that play would have happened inside of 2 minutes. As such, there would have been an automatic review and it's likely that the play would have been overturned. Carolina would have gotten the ball on the 20 and probably wouldn't have called a running play. They would have had to go about 45-50 yards to set up a game tying field goal. Instead, they run a running play to get some room to negotiate, fumble the ball and we score a TD.


Playing to win KARMA!