Nobody can question the job Shane Steichen did this season in leading an overachieving Colts team to the cusp – we’re talking the Texans’ 15-yard line – of the playoffs. He has been a brilliant tactician, taking a crew of backups and undrafted free agents and molding them into a team that finished the season an unexpected 9-8.
But that play call on fourth-and-1 at the 15-yard line, the decision to take red-hot Jonathan Taylor out of the lineup and leave the fate of the season in the unsteady hands of wayward Gardner Minshew and late-season practice-squad addition Tyler Goodson, that’s one that’s going to inspire several sleepless nights.
Please explain:
“Yeah, we could have had him (Taylor) in there for something; we could have done something,” Steichen said. “Obviously, if it doesn’t work, you’re going to second guess it. I understand that. That’s part of the business.
“…It was fourth-and-one and we saw the front they were in and we liked the look for that play in that situation.”
Or they could have pounded Taylor off tackle.
