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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Guapo" data-source="post: 641791" data-attributes="member: 5830">Dealing in absolutes is dangerous un4given, unless you're talking death and taxes.Of course playcalling can win and lose games. It's ridiculous to say otherwise. You said it yourself. Have a monkey call your same halfback dive play for an entire Packers game and tell me that playcalling doesn't have an effect. You can't execute it perfect enough when the other team knows it's coming. Heck, even Lombardi didn't call his famous sweep on every play. If it was purely the players and not the play calls, he would have run to daylight. Even he knew that you need to mix it up.Not running out the clock was plain stupid by McCarthy. Run the ball three times in a row because it's all about the clock, not about yards. What did we do? Threw an incomplete pass on third down. THAT was play calling affecting the game. A run virtually eliminates the chance for stopping the clock, aside from fumbles or penalties which could happen in either scenario. Throwing a pass introduced an additional unnecessary risk of stopping the clock and giving time to the Raiders for a comeback.McCarthy is a great play caller, and like any play caller, he has his foibles. I'm still happier with Mike calling the plays than just about anybody else but he's still open for criticism. Same as TT, I love his style but can question his moves every so often.</blockquote>

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