AARON RODGERS DEFIES FATHER TIME WITH ANOTHER THREE-TOUCHDOWN PERFORMANCE IN STEELERS’ WINAnd if you made a few bad decisions this weekend, don't feel too bad.Liam Coen made plenty and still walked out of the stadium with a win.
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This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen didn't have his best game in Week 5, but his team bailed him out with a last-second field goal.(AP Photo/Kelley L.
Cox)Here's my biggest takeaway from each game on the Week 5 Sunday slate.Takeaway: Liam Coen got away with one of the worst coaching performances of his career.Plenty of people are going to criticize the Jags head coach for going for it on fourth-and-goal twice and failing rather than kicking a field goal.However, having to use a backup long snapper definitely adjusted the calculus.The bigger issue, to me, was the play calling.
A jet sweep on fourth-and-goal from the 1? A wildcat formation on first-and-goal from the 1 that led to a false start? And if the long snapper was such an issue, why not go for two after the go-ahead touchdown instead of trying that extra point, which was missed due to a bad snap?JASON KELCE’S EAGLES-JAGUARS BROADCAST SHOWS WHY NFL BOOTHS COULD USE MORE OFFENSIVE LINEMENAnd then none of it mattered because his special teams bailed him out with a big kick return (thanks to a terrible decision by Eagles coach Nick Sirianni to even allow a kick return in the first place) followed by a walk-off field goal.Better to be lucky than good?Takeaway: Someone had to win this game.In a battle of 0-4 AFC South teams, Houston coasted to a win over the lowly Titans.
This was obviously a must-win for the Texans, who still have a long way...