Bigger collapse?- Oracle/Gales/Anybody!

[quote=ezrabrooks]

Originally Posted by oracle80

I don't think all come from behinds are collapses Tim, thats where you and I differ.
I read all about "michigan St's collapse" this past weekend, and I read about the "eagles collapse" against the Giants. I didn't get those either. I watched both games, and I simply saw two teams who absolutely did everything right and badly outplayed their opponents in the last 1/4's. Same with the Buffalo-Houston playoff game where the Bills were losing like 35-3 at halftime. I mean Holy ****!! In the second half the Bills played every down on offense and defense perfectly!!!!! I'm sorry but that wasn't a Houston collapse, that was one team just kicking the **** out of the other one. Big difference to me.


I remember that Buffalo-Houston game well.. Jeff Fisher's run and shoot offense couldn't keep Buddy Ryan's defense off the field. Finally came to a head, with Buddy throwing a punch at Fisher..wasn't Buddy's first, or last punch.. It wasn't so much of a collapse, as it being an offense that wasn't geared to set on a lead.

Whether Frank Reich started the game..and came in for Kelly is a little fuzzy.

Ez

Ezra it was reich who came in.
I will never forget watching the 2nd half. It was pretty obvious after the 2nd Buffalo touchdown when the crowd went insane how it was gonna end.
My friend said after the third touchdown that place was actually shaking from the noise and complete insanity. You could just see Buffalo had made some adjustments at halftime and came out not defeated, but like a team on a mission. Reich just kept throwing it and they just kept catching it. And the defense lead by Bruce Smith just swarmed on them on every play.
I was just trying to say that not all teams who blow leads in games or series collapse, sometimes the other team just kicks it into turbodrive and outplays them.

[ninetoone]

Just to clarify, Reich didn't "come in" in that comeback game. He started and played the whole game. Kelly had hurt his knee in the last regular season game (against Houston), and didn't play in the famous rematch.