NFL Week 5 Recap: Coaching Blunders & Game Analysis

Let's go back to that mess there in Washington. Boy, that thing was just, how do you not know where you are on the field if you're the quarterback? And Mike Martz said it. Why are you running another play? Kick the field goal and go home. Instead, really, this is the kind of decision that may end up costing Dan Quinn his gig. What were your takeaways from this? Yeah, I'm right there with you. I think this falls back on coaching. And believe me, Jayden Daniels is partly to blame for that, just not knowing and not having the instincts to say hey I've got to make sure that the clock stops here make sure we have enough time but Dan Quinn we're looking at this play unfolding there's about 55 seconds left in the game Jaden Daniels is just kind of standing there in the huddle waiting for the play call and they just let it run all the way down they run the one play there has to be a discussion at that point of hey we don't have any timeouts guys let's just get this spike let's do the field goal you know you feel free to run down the clock you can run it down to the 12 seconds and then do the spike that also protects you from a situation where if you have a bad snap you can throw it away on the field goal because i don't think it was fourth down when they would have kicked it so they really just needed to spike that much earlier it was just such a bad sequence it's really i think it's a problem for Dan Quinn his seat was already hot it's now scorching hot and you know Jayden Daniels will be able to bounce back from this but both guys just after the game seemed completely like dismayed at how badly they screwed up that situation you know as they should as they should be Jacob also you would also add in that you have a first year first time play caller and David Blau in that scenario too so as you said with coaching communication has got to be an issue there right when you're telling your player here's where we are here's how much time you have left you have no timeout spike the football the worst thing you could do is take a sack or run the football with no time it just to me really that came down to like you said situational play calling on the coaching staff here speaking of that let's go to London and what happened with the Eagles there boy I'll tell you all you have to do is kick the ball through the back of the end zone you have eight seconds left you have to know that on the other side you have a backup snapper and on top of that you've got a kicker who kicked a year ago a 68 yard field goal and Cam Little how do you not defend first the kickoff and how do you not if you're Michael Clay the special teams coach there with Philadelphia not tell your guys you got to cover this you can't give them field position does this come down to coaching too i would say so because you have two options there you can either kick it out of the back of the end zone which I know earlier in the season we talked about the Cowboys Ravens game where that wasn't the right call but the Ravens had a timeout in that scenario because the Jaguars didn't have a timeout their only way they could have gotten into field goal range would have been completing a ball near the sideline getting out of bounds at which point you just play sideline defense just force them to try to throw over the middle of the field so from that perspective they should have kicked it out of bounds i can understand saying hey if we have the return we can make them run out the clock okay if you want to do that you have to make sure your defense or your special teams unit is ready to tackle and they just were not up to the task and it was the second time in that game they allowed a big return happened on the opening kickoff it was a lot it was disallowed by penalty but Josh Cameron ran back a touchdown on the opening kickoff so you know if i was looking at that as a coach I would have said I should probably just kick it out of bounds just in case something like that happens again but you know credit to Nick Sirianni he took responsibility for it after the game but that's one the Eagles are going to look at and say wow we had that in the bag and we completely blew it