Hold your water ....

[kidrobinski]

Nm

 

[kidrobinski]

Not arguing with you, but, ok..... let's say I buy his KY explanation. (I don't) But let's give him a pass on that one.....

How we explaining the complete and utter mis-clock management in the 2nd qtr against UT when we had just gotten a first down inside the 10 yard line and the clock was approaching the 2 minute warning.... and we hurried up and ran another play before the 2 min warning. It was stupid. You are in COMPLETE CONTROL in that situation. You have the opposing team at your mercy. The one and only thing you cannot do in that situation is mis-manage the clock and give UT the ball back with plenty of time to march right down the field and score a TD before halftime. You CANNOT do that....... and that's precisely what we did. (While keeping 3 time outs in our back pockets)

That is unforgivable, imho .....it cannot happen. But, it's forgiven and not talked about because we won the game. It's not like this is his first year as HC. This is year SIX.....you'd think he'd know how to manage the game clock / situation. See for yourself. Fast forward to the 57:40 mark and watch the inexplicable unfold.

That was indeed a bad stretch; everyone lost their bearings for sure including the D allowing the score. And UT had timeouts also. I can’t say I’m fully following your logic there but granted the old gray matter is not what it once was; I’m not seeing it as a major faux pas on Beamer’s part. You’ve obviously thought it thru much deeper.

 

[I4CtheFuture]

That was indeed a bad stretch; everyone lost their bearings for sure including the D allowing the score. And UT had timeouts also. I can’t say I’m fully following your logic there but granted the old gray matter is not what it once was; I’m not seeing it as a major faux pas on Beamer’s part. You’ve obviously thought it thru much deeper.

Well, the logic is rather simple. (Look man, even Todd Ellis was saying you let the clock run down the 2:00 warning)

So, it's 4th and 1. We go for it. We get it. It's now 1st down and you don't have to run another play before the clock gets to the 2 minute warning. You let the clock run down to 2 minutes. There's a TV timeout. The game is tied 14 - 14. You gather your players on the sideline and go through what you're going to do with your GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.... It's 1st down and no rush..... Preferably, you run a running play up the middle for a few yards. Clock runs.... you force UT to use their timeouts there. (Or maybe they don't use their timeouts but at least you're forcing them to do something)

If they are content to let the clock run until you snap that ball on your 2nd down......fine.... same play.....run up the middle. If they stop you again, the clock is till running. We got Time Outs. We can stop the clock whenever we want if need be. Then on 3rd down, hopefully, you score with the game clock being somewhere around the 30 second mark. You take the lead, go into halftime, KNOWING that they get the ball 1st in the 2nd half.

You allow them very little time to do anything. - Instead - here's what we did:

1st down......hurried up and our MeatHead QB ran out of bounds, stopping the clock.....but it didn't matter because THAT play, the clock was going to be stopped at the 2 minute warning anyway..... I think it stopped at 1:58. Now it's 2nd down. Meathead threw an incomplete pass to a WIDE OPEN receiver less than 10 yards away. Clock stops. Now it's 3rd down.... MeatHead scrambles around and nearly takes a huge sack but throws it incomplete. Clock stops. - We kick a field goal. Go up 17-14

But then we have to kick off to them and when they got the ball back......instead of having under 30 seconds on the clock.......they had 1:44 and 2 timeouts...... and marched right down the field and scored a TD.

You just CANNOT make those kinds of mistakes against the #11 ranked team in the country. It was GROSS mismanagement of the clock.
Edited to add: and I'm still not arguing with you, just explaining the logic, down by down.

 

[bayrooster]

I thought people were calling for Woods because Sellers got injured.

 

[TheRoo]

You just CANNOT make those kinds of mistakes against the #11 ranked team in the country. It was GROSS mismanagement of the clock.
Edited to add: and I'm still not arguing with you, just explaining the logic, down by down.

Apparently you can because we still won the game.

But any more detail you can add to this horrific situation would be welcomed.

 

[Lurker123]

I thought people were calling for Woods because Sellers got injured.

Lately yes. Some were calling for " a series or two" earlier when Sellers was not quite making great decisions.

I think some were calling for his outright benching too.

Some were calling for more Woods in those early games when it was out of hand too.

 

[I4CtheFuture]

I thought people were calling for Woods because Sellers got injured.

If we had a competent coaching staff, Woods would have played the entire 2nd half of our opener against cupcake #1 and Duckworth or someone else would have played the entire 2nd half of our game with cupcake #2.

But we like to squander opportunities like that.

 

[TheRoo]

I thought people were calling for Woods because Sellers got injured.

Yep. He's the #2 guy if Sellers wasn't able to go or throw off the leg.