Why not let them score?

With 1:56 left in Pittsburgh, Jags QB David Garrard runs 32 yards on 4th and 2, to the Steelers 11. Jags trail 29-28. Pittsburgh has 2 timeouts. Conventional wisdom says you play it out and hope the Jags turn it over or mess up the short FG try. CW almost never works.

Why not let Jax score?

The Jags go up 34-29 or 36-29, B. Roethlisberger has 90 seconds and 2 timeouts, Wouldnt you rather be in that situation about 95 percent of the time? Tony Romo isnt going to flub that snap very often. Let them score, the game is back in your hands. As it was, the Steelers used their TOs and got the ball back with less than 30 seconds. Impossible situation.

Let the Jags score. You with me?

Other stuff:

Got an e-mail from a Reds insider yesterday, encouraging me to "write something'' urging Wayne Krivsky to deal for Oakland pitcher Joe Blanton. The club says it's still seeking a starter, but it probably won't be Blanton, even though he'd put them in the Central mix. Seems to me there's a philosophical split in the ranks down there, between those who want to win now and those who see '09 as more likely. Here's for certain: With M. Belisle as your #3, say hello to 3rd or 4th place.

If you can stay, um, patient 1 more year, Griffey comes off the books, everyone will know more about the potential of Bailey, Cueto, Maloney, Votto, Bruce etc. and everything should be humming for '09... I see the thinking there. I'm just tired of it. It's a little like having Christmas on Dec. 32.

I love S. Burrell's thinking and attitude at X this year. Seniors who believe they can play aren't normally so unselfish. Stan seems to enjoy being unburdened as The Man. He's just having fun and enjoying his senior year which, ideally, is what being a senior in quasi-amateur hoops is all about...

My beloved Redskins played their guts out yesterday and would have won in Seattle, save fore 2 plays, the choke-job missed 30-yard FG that would have put them up 17-13. . . and the incredibly stupid play call with 6 mins left, when off. coord. Al Saunders asked weak-armed QB Todd Collins to throw 40 yards into the wind on 1st down from the Skins 46... it wasnt enough that it took Saunders an entire half to figure out Collins couldnt drop 5 and 7 steps and needed to go 3 steps and run some screens and draws, to keep the rush off him... Saunders, who makes lots of money, thought it was a great idea to go deep into the wind... ball was picked off, returned for a TD and that was that...

Dude should give back his game check... as for Suisham the kicker, I'd have cut him right before he got on the plane.

Damn, now I sound like you guys.

Live big, John Riggins.