Was Ted Ginn's punt return for a TD a good thing? | Page 7

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:11 PM

80849er4life
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The only way I wouldn't want Ginn to score those TDs, was to see Alex Smiths reaction on offense when he knows the game is in his hands. But we won the game so well see Sunday.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:12 PM

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krizay
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Bottom line is it worked out. If I win the lottery with random generated numbers, would it be better if I had won with my own hand-picked numbers

Yes, cause the hand picked number will likely be the same number you play over and over again. Thus less likely for lightning to strike twice. Whereas I randomly generated number is well, random. Thus more of a chance to randomly hit more than once.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM

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OnTheClock
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Only in NinerTalk.... Wow. This is low, even for NT.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM

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Bluefalcon61
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Originally posted by andes14:
Originally posted by father49er:
In the first case, Seattle wins w/ 2 TDs, In the 2nd case, Seattle at best tie the game. And general rule of thumb, is it's harder score points so make your opponents score more.

Of course that's the con of it, but the pro is that they still would need to score 2 TD's, but have one fewer minute and two fewer timeouts to do so. There's obviously logic to both sides, that's why it's debatabe. People that think it's retarded to think it's debatable are clearly foolish.

Debatable implies the possibility of poor judgement in the original course of action. In this case, it really is a non issue. We're debating just to debate.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:27 PM

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Norcal9erfan
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Originally posted by andes14:
I almost think it's debatable. If he just did a fair catch (or, if he returned it, just took a knee at the 1 yard line), we would have been up 2 possessions AND have the ball AND have only 3 minutes left in the game. Kneel it 3 times (drain clock/make them use their remaining timeouts), then kick a field goal to make it a 2 touchdown game with them only having a minute or so left. Seems like that would have been the best chance of winning rather than them having to score 2 touchdowns but having 3 minutes and however many timeouts left they had to do so. Either way, the odds were overwhelming in our favor, but I feel that they would have been even more overwhelming had he not scored.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:35 PM

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49erfeeeever808
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point of this thread:

was the TD a good thing? yes.
if he didn't score the td would it be a bad thing? no.
so either way we were in a good situation? yes.

was one situation better than the other? depends who you ask.... but tavaris jackson sucks so it doesn't matter.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM

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TDilvr
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Originally posted by andes14:

Originally posted by DK57:
Is allowing people to post stupid things a good thing?

Please elaborate as to how a 16 point lead with 3 mins left and 2 SEA timeouts is CLEARLY and UNQUESTIONABLY better than a 12 point lead with 2 mins left and 0 SEA timeouts and why it's "stupid" to think the latter COULD be more advantageous than the former...

It doesn't really matter Andes because if they would have done what you suggest it would have set in motion a completely different set of cause and effect with new variables. I'm not going to flame you but anytime you come in after the fact nitpicking a win, you should expect what you're getting.

[ Edited by TDilvr on Sep 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM ]

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:50 PM

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Stevec9932
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hey how about this...

i think we should have taken a safety to tie the game up and then let it go to OT. Pray we win the coin toss cuz the odds of the home winning when they win the coin toss are way up there....

Does that sound good??

NO DUDE - You score TD's when you can regardless....

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM

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MSteitz468
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Originally posted by andes14:
I almost think it's debatable. If he just did a fair catch (or, if he returned it, just took a knee at the 1 yard line), we would have been up 2 possessions AND have the ball AND have only 3 minutes left in the game. Kneel it 3 times (drain clock/make them use their remaining timeouts), then kick a field goal to make it a 2 touchdown game with them only having a minute or so left. Seems like that would have been the best chance of winning rather than them having to score 2 touchdowns but having 3 minutes and however many timeouts left they had to do so. Either way, the odds were overwhelming in our favor, but I feel that they would have been even more overwhelming had he not scored.

Questions nobody is asking.

Sep 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM

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