Two bad calls...two losses...and a season squandered.

It' kind of sad really....

Why does everybody think a squib with not much time left is a bad idea? That is extremely common practice. It probably happens more often than not during a kickoff by a winning team with little time remaining.

The only reason people think it's stupid this time is because it didn't work.

1st and goal at the 4 is the same thing. Honestly, with HM at the helm, it's a pretty safe play. He doesn't make stupid decisions. Unfortunately he did that time. That one is more on HM than it is any coach, imo. Had he not grounded the ball, we probably would have scored regardless. It's the grounding that kept us out of the endzone, not the playcalling.

I won't argue that these were good calls, but by no means are they bad calls that cost us the game. We had so many chances to win that USCe game and we never capitalized. Don't place blame all on a single playcall.

Terrible idea. Is does hpen note than it should though.

You want the team to have to go as far as possible to kick the FG. Kick it deep.

If a TD is needed squib it.

kneehigh

what part of "Finish The Drill" is missing here?..

what happened during the game is history at this point. Richt made the wrong decision by his own admission and cost the team a victory.

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How do you feel about the call to throw on 4th and goal on the 3 at the end of the game? Was that a bad call too?

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You lost me here. I think the 4th down call was great...does that mean I can't dislike the call to squib kick it and give the other team an easy shot to set up a FG try?

I dont agree with the squib kick when you factor in everything else. They had 3 returns for 36 yards to that point. Our kick coverage had actually been good all year. But even if you squib kick the execution was weak. Didn't get it far enough and it popped up to the guy in a hurry. Would have been better off hitting the pooch kick that we can't seem to figure out how to cover, or hell even kick it out of bounds.

I did have a problem with the last defensive play though. Not a big fan of spying the qb with a guy who is slower than the qb. Also we should know if they get close to the 35 they had a shot at a FG, have to defend that area better. That and the TO when tech was scrambling for the last second kick (that we didn't try to block) were head scratchers to me. Granted if we don't fumble on the goalline so many times this all doesn't matter, but still.

good point. Hated missing out on watching Gurley this year. Although if you would have told me we would be favored in every single game this season and lose 3 of them... I would have said figures, sounds bout right.

ya if we don't have those mistakes then we wouldn't be in that situation your right. But we could do something about losing a game up 3 with 18 seconds left. Regardless of what else happened, we got to that point, you gotta win it.

haha, I was paranoid of the same thing. If we kick it deep and cover it the game is essentially over. Maybe i'm still recovering from our prevent defense experiences form last year but I was terrified of being in a prevent situation. We always seem to screw that up. I think a 21 yard scramble and out of bounds in 9 seconds would definitely qualify there.