2010年12月1日星期三

Art Shell Press Conference Notes Week 5

On Monday, head coach Art Shell was asked how his staff would handle future challenge-discrepancies.Very vaguely, he offered, "We talked about it as a staff this morning. We'll do something about it."Then, when asked who he talked to concerning the matter, the coach gave yet another unclear, 4 Brett Favre White jersey
inadequate response."There's a couple of guys that I ask," he said.In the essential turning point of Oakland's 24-21 defeat against the Cleveland Browns, Shell and the "couple of guys" he consults upstairs obliviously failed to challenge a blatant first-down completion to Ronald Curry, in effect severing a potentially game-winning drive."I knew we could challenge," Shell said on Monday. "My question was: should we challenge this play? From my vantage point, I'm standing behind the offense, so when the ball was spotted, I'm behind. So, I called upstairs and I asked, 'should we challenge?'"Evidently, the answer was "no," or perhaps, "I'm not sure, let me ask Al Davis."Positioned at the Cleveland 30-yard line, Shell opted to send his offense back on to the field to attempt a fourth-down run, rather than a game-knotting field goal. Orpheus Roye, a 6-foot-4, 315-pound lineman, didn't like the idea, deciding to take matters -- and LaMont Jordan -- into his own hands."I was miffed, because we should have challenged it," Shell said afterward.Nowadays, NFL head coaches are seemingly heaving the red flag when the play at hand is undoubtedly incontestable. The reason, of course, is not only to clarify a point with the referees, but to also allow your staff to take a closer look at the previous play, and plan for the next. Instead, on Sunday, the staff kept their hands in their pockets and their timeouts in the vault.Perhaps Shell should listen to his own advice."It has to be in you. You have to have that Steelers 6 Super Bowl Champions jersey
competitive nature about you...When you've got a team down, you've got to really turn up the volume, as they say, and we just didn't do that.""We can't afford to be complacent."The staff can't afford to be incompetent, either.Want to be in this Friday's article? Visit RaidersLive.com to submit your questions and comments for the Oct. 6 mailbag. Get more original analysis at . (17)

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