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Pittman & KJ embrace after the game last night

Posted on 12/30/22 at 12:32 am
Posted by hawgfaninc
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Posted on 12/30/22 at 12:32 am
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He’s got a connection with his players and they (usually) play hard for him. Not sure why they sometimes appear not to play hard, maybe the changes this offseason will fix it.
Posted by Arkapigdiesel
Faulkner County
Member since Jun 2009
15401 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:44 am to
I'm tired of playing not to lose when we go up. What a loser mentality. Keep playing the same style of ball that got you lead in the first place.

Pittman has been a good stabilizer with the shite show he inherited. Worse case scenario, when he does retire (hopefully not get fired), hopefully we will be attractive enough to not hire another Chad.
Posted by Jon Ham
Member since Jun 2011
29587 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 6:30 am to
Up by 14
Under 3 minutes
We have the ball on Kansas’ 30
Kansas is out of timeouts

What you call “playing not to lose” put us in that position. Sorry you’re too dumb to understand basic football.
Posted by Arkapigdiesel
Faulkner County
Member since Jun 2009
15401 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:11 am to
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Up by 14
Under 3 minutes
We have the ball on Kansas’ 30
Kansas is out of timeouts

What you call “playing not to lose” put us in that position. Sorry you’re too dumb to understand basic football.

Well, frick. You've got it figured out.

We started sitting on our thumb well before the 3 minute mark in the 4th. Keep on thinking you're right and I'm wrong. You'll never change my mind and I won't change yours either.
Posted by Pygthagorean Theorem
Member since Aug 2015
8084 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:12 am to
Oh JFC. Shut the frick up already. You're so narrow minded and act like this is a one time thing in how this staff gives up big leads or goes on scoring droughts. Pull your head out of your arse.
This post was edited on 12/30/22 at 11:48 am
Posted by gohogs141
Fayetteville
Member since Jun 2011
7651 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:54 am to
The thing is most coaches do this. Our fans get frustrated with Muss for his stall ball tactics toward the end of games but it typically ends up winning you the game more often than not.

Now maybe Pittman could get away with it more at a place like Georgia since they have better players and a run for no gain would turn into a 40 yard TD run instead, but burning as much clock as possible with how fast college offenses can score these days isn’t that unheard of.
Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55
Gods country
Member since Sep 2016
18165 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:58 am to
I personally don’t have a problem with a coach trying to milk some clock to get the game over with when he has the lead. I do have a problem when you do it too early like in the 3rd quarter just because you don’t want to hurt the other teams feelings.
Posted by FayetteNAM
Boston Mountains
Member since Jun 2013
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Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:05 am to
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I personally don’t have a problem with a coach trying to milk some clock to get the game over with when he has the lead. I do have a problem when you do it too early like in the 3rd quarter just because you don’t want to hurt the other teams feelings.


Me either, but when they are loading the box and trying to win, you pass on them. So you can keep the downs going.
Posted by Jon Ham
Member since Jun 2011
29587 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:09 am to
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We started sitting on our thumb well before the 3 minute mark in the 4th.


Up by 14
Under 3 minutes
We have the ball on Kansas’ 30
Kansas is out of timeouts

What you call “sitting on our thumb” put us in that position. Sorry you’re too dumb to understand basic football.

quote:

Keep on thinking you're right and I'm wrong.


Doesn’t require any thinking really. The situation sorta speaks for itself. Up by 14, under 3 minutes, we have the ball on Kansas’ 30, Kansas is out of timeouts. Every single coach in America would take that situation. Maybe “thinking” is where you start running into issues. You should try thinking less; it seems you’re not very good at it.
Posted by Porker Face
Eden Isle
Member since Feb 2012
15949 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:12 am to
We better beat western Carolina by 70
Posted by FayetteNAM
Boston Mountains
Member since Jun 2013
8914 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:25 am to
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Doesn’t require any thinking really. The situation sorta speaks for itself. Up by 14, under 3 minutes, we have the ball on Kansas’ 30, Kansas is out of timeouts. Every single coach in America would take that situation. Maybe “thinking” is where you start running into issues. You should try thinking less; it seems you’re not very good at it.


Not when they scored 2 touchdowns in the last 15m of playing and you haven’t scored any… and they are still trying to win and you are just trying to survive. Maybe if you had broken their will… we didn’t keep stepping on them until their will was broken.
Posted by Pygthagorean Theorem
Member since Aug 2015
8084 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:26 am to
We won't. We'll probably come out unprepared and uninspired as always against a G5 team.
Posted by gohogs141
Fayetteville
Member since Jun 2011
7651 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 10:38 am to
We had a 40 yard pass play to Landers on that same drive did we not? I really wish that “fumble” hadn’t happened because we probably would have scored again and won by 22 and none of this conversation would be happening lol
Posted by FayetteNAM
Boston Mountains
Member since Jun 2013
8914 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 11:13 am to
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We had a 40 yard pass play to Landers on that same drive did we not? I really wish that “fumble” hadn’t happened because we probably would have scored again and won by 22 and none of this conversation would be happening lol


What about the 5 drives before that? We ran it 3 times into a wall. Not one pass to keep us rolling. Is that Sam saying don’t pass because it looks bad? Or is it just the clock killing they’ve devoloped? Idk. But I know it’s happened multiple times. Maybe they saw a stacked box and thought wow if we throw we can score at will, so let’s not beat them like that? But after they scored on us multiple times and were trying to claw their way into it? You score on them and say no, we are your daddy today.
Posted by Riggle
Member since Feb 2013
4593 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 11:22 am to
Great moment between 2 people that reinvigorated our fan base
Posted by beaverfever
Arkansas
Member since Jan 2008
35388 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 11:45 am to
Milking the clock against an inferior opponent is terrible strategy. More possessions equals less variance and fewer possessions equals more variance. If you’re the superior team you want as little variance in outcome as possible.

Most coaches are of average intelligence and should be outsourcing their logic. You’re already seeing it with analytics. Evolve or die.
Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55
Gods country
Member since Sep 2016
18165 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 12:20 pm to
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We had a 40 yard pass play to Landers on that same drive did we not? I really wish that “fumble” hadn’t happened because we probably would have scored again and won by 22 and none of this conversation would be happening lol
the drive that the fumble occurred was us no longer playing conservative because it was never about running the clock out. What Pittman started doing was running the ball up the gut to be nice. Once he realized Kansas wasn’t lying down he told briles to kick it back into gear (smart move imo.) my gripe is that we should’ve never took our foot off their throat to begin with in the 3rd quarter. We wasted 3 or 4 possessions just running the ball and maybe throwing on 3rd down but really not trying to do everything in our power to win. That’s my issue
Posted by Latarian
Thug POS
Member since Jul 2010
27626 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 12:27 pm to
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What Pittman started doing was running the ball up the gut to be nice. Once he realized Kansas wasn’t lying down he told briles to kick it back into gea


Lol
Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55
Gods country
Member since Sep 2016
18165 posts
Posted on 12/30/22 at 12:51 pm to
Wait so you don’t think we were just trying to coast to victory after that 1st td of the 2nd half? Because that is 100% what it looked like to me. And briles is an offensive minded guy like kiffin or huepel, leach, kingsbury etc. and those guys normally prefer running it up even sometimes to their detriment where they get to aggressive and let teams back into games they shouldn’t. But that means it’s most likely Sam telling briles to throttle down anytime you see the offense start randomly stalling out in the 2nd half of games that we’ve been dominating
Posted by Latarian
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Posted on 12/30/22 at 1:57 pm to
I’m laughing bc you have it all figured out, do you stand between them on the sidelines for this intel? Every game you either blame Briles, Pitt or both depending on how it plays out. Just makes me laugh how deeply people think about the game even after a W.
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