[RAMFANRAIDERHATER]

These discussions are pointless, if you ask me. Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20.

As pointed out by someone, if Bulger passes, and it gets picked, you can bet the house that the Linehan bashers would have started a thread calling him out about how stupid he was for passing and not running for 1 lousy yard. The argument that we shouldn't have relied on our Oline for a short run makes little to no sense to me. They have to block either way, and run-blocking is said to be easier than pass-blocking. Also, I read where "everyone in the house knew we were going to run it up the gut", so we should have run something out of the shotgun formation. Well, if we run it from the shotgun formation, wouldn't everyone in the house be pretty damn sure we're going to throw it? I doubt we'd run it from the shotgun on 4th and 1, so what leads anyone to believe that we'd be any more successful throwing it? Holt and Bulger are not a sure deal. Not this year. Bulger has had trouble finding an open passing lane, and Holt has had problems getting separation.

I think it was the right call, just piss-poor execution. Did Leonard hit the right hole? Did someone miss a blocking assignment? Who knows. ...or did the Browns just outplay us on that play? It's so easy to question a play call, especially after it doesn't work. The Browns are like 29th in the league in rushing defense and 30th in pass defense. I would like to think that even a group of third stringers could gain a stinkin' yard on the ground.

Like much of this season, we just didn't execute when we needed to.