re: The Loss to Tech

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His long was 46

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According to the TV broadcast, it was 49. A 53 yard field goal was not an unreasonable pipe dream in that scenario.

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FooManChoo, I agree with you. The problem is, there are people around here who are too lazy to figure out what actually went wrong. They'd rather cherry-pick one play that cost us the entire game, as if the rest of the game were played in a total vacuum. The squib vs deep kick is probably #10 on the list of reasons we lost Saturday.

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You and Foo are idiots.

In spite of what happened earlier in the game WE WERE WINNING THE GAME WITH ONLY 18 SECONDS LEFT TO PLAY!!!

We had the game won.

Since we ended up losing the game only a call after we got the go ahead TD cost us the game.

I know which call that was.

Kicking the ball deep into the endzone would have forced GT to run it out and if they ran it out to the 20-25 yard line then it would have taken at least a few seconds off of the clock.

If it had be a longer run to the 30-35 yard line then it would have taken even more seconds off the clock.

GT would have been in the position of having to throw a Hail Mary or a long sideline pass. If they didn't pass and had a long run to even get in field goal range then it would have run out the clock.

BTW, yesterday I caught the end the Chargers vs. the Ravens game and the Chargers went ahead by one point with only 38 seconds left.

On the previous kick off in the game by the Chargers a player on the Ravens had a long run back.

Did the Chargers kick a squib kick because they were afraid of another long run back?

HELL NO!!!

THEY KICKED THE BALL INTO THE END ZONE AND MADE THEM RUN IT OUT!!!

It took 5 seconds off of the clock.

Then the clock ran out before the Ravens could even get into field goal range.

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Don't think I've seen anybody discuss just how terrible the GT placekicker is. Everybody on that field (GT included) probably thought GT had to get the ball to the 25 to even have a fighting chance. Since most of you probably didn't know, I'll go ahead and tell you, the GT kicker was 42% on the season at 30+ yards. His long was 46.

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None of that matters.

The squib kick got GT close enough for their FG kicker to make the FG even though it was the longest of his career.

That bad call gave him the chance and he made it by inches.

If GT had been a few inches further back which is where they would have been if they had to run it out of the end zone or even from a few yards outside the endzone then it would have been too far away for him to make the FG.

Even Richt is now admitting he made a bad call by doing a squib kick.