1. At the end of the 1st half, Fitz took the V-formation. We'll come back to that.
2. Fitz should have returned in the 4th QTR at the drive around the 8:00 mark. On the previous drive, DW threw 5 straight incomplete passes to G.Myles. He was bailed out on two of them. He starred down the receivers and misread every read-option. He had two completions to Ross in the flats. The USA coaches figured him out and they dared Dan to run the ball.
3A. State misses a 46-yard FG from the left-hash on the next to the last drive. State drives the ball to the redzone with the run game and then decides to throw it. DW takes a sack on 3rd down that puts the ball on the left-hash.
3B. Dan should have called a TO after 2nd-Goal in the 4th. They probably would have tried to throw it on both downs, stopping the clock. USA runs the clock down and then Calvin jumps off side. After the penalty is assessed, the clock continues to run down again and USA calls a TO. USA scores on the next. play. Dan still has all 3 TO's.
4. The last drive was terribly mismanaged, even for Dan. After State gets in USA territory, Dan decides to call a bubble screen to the wide side of the field, burns a TO. State is at the 20 with :19 seconds left and 4 downs. Instead of running 3 plays (with at least 4 downs) and trying to score, Dan plays it safe. He calls 2 QB draws, both followed by TO's. I don't know what Dan told DW, but USA's coach obviously told his players to push the runner out of the middle of the field. Then the kicker who just missed from the left-hash misses again from the left-hash. Returning to Item 1, it seems as if DW can't take a snap from center. It's even more insulting that DW doesn't understand the reason for calling the running play.
So, I don't blame DW. DW played a relatively good game. The whole mismanagement of the situation belongs to Dan. The guy can 17 up a 4th QTR. How does he not have anyone he's talking to about clock management? Things like this show me he's better suited as an OC.
2. Fitz should have returned in the 4th QTR at the drive around the 8:00 mark. On the previous drive, DW threw 5 straight incomplete passes to G.Myles. He was bailed out on two of them. He starred down the receivers and misread every read-option. He had two completions to Ross in the flats. The USA coaches figured him out and they dared Dan to run the ball.
3A. State misses a 46-yard FG from the left-hash on the next to the last drive. State drives the ball to the redzone with the run game and then decides to throw it. DW takes a sack on 3rd down that puts the ball on the left-hash.
3B. Dan should have called a TO after 2nd-Goal in the 4th. They probably would have tried to throw it on both downs, stopping the clock. USA runs the clock down and then Calvin jumps off side. After the penalty is assessed, the clock continues to run down again and USA calls a TO. USA scores on the next. play. Dan still has all 3 TO's.
4. The last drive was terribly mismanaged, even for Dan. After State gets in USA territory, Dan decides to call a bubble screen to the wide side of the field, burns a TO. State is at the 20 with :19 seconds left and 4 downs. Instead of running 3 plays (with at least 4 downs) and trying to score, Dan plays it safe. He calls 2 QB draws, both followed by TO's. I don't know what Dan told DW, but USA's coach obviously told his players to push the runner out of the middle of the field. Then the kicker who just missed from the left-hash misses again from the left-hash. Returning to Item 1, it seems as if DW can't take a snap from center. It's even more insulting that DW doesn't understand the reason for calling the running play.
So, I don't blame DW. DW played a relatively good game. The whole mismanagement of the situation belongs to Dan. The guy can 17 up a 4th QTR. How does he not have anyone he's talking to about clock management? Things like this show me he's better suited as an OC.
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