You must have missed my previous post. On that play, Warner had about 3 seconds to throw. It took 2 seconds for the options to blow up, leaving approx. 1 second for Warner to locate & throw to the THIRD option. A qb just doesn't have the time neccessary to make a third read w/ 3 seconds & an unabated defender baring down on him. I would submit no one in the NFL makes that play. No one!
Again, as far as the play call, you may have a point. But do take into consideration that Haley had called a good enough game up to that point for Warner to throw for almost 500 yards. It seemed Pope had done his job in pass paterns up to that point. I don't recall any other missed assignments or wrong patterns but that would be hard to tell. Play calling in your own endzone is by far the most difficult. I thought Haley made the right call. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Out of curiosity, what if they would have called the play you suggest, & Pope runs into another player & blows up the play, would it have made any difference? I don't really believe it mattered what play was called. If the players don't do their job, it's doomed for failure. If we go 3 & out w/ that field position, we're in big trouble anyway you look at it.
