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re: If tre mason kneels on the 5, does auburn win?
Posted on 1/7/14 at 12:29 pm to JB Bama
Posted on 1/7/14 at 12:29 pm to JB Bama
Excellent point. I started a thread in the score board on this very topic. Everyone said I was stupid, while everyone watch Auburn go down like a $2 whore. Everyone against this train of thought just saw Auburn lose but are too set in their ways to see an alternative.
The bottom line for me is that Auburn hasn't been very good on defense all year long. They couldn't stop FSU in the 4th quarter. FSU was moving the ball at will in the 4th quarter. 1:19 is an eternity in CFB. Do you trust your offense with a first and goal or do you trust your defense with 1:19? The answer was very clear to me watching the game.
As soon as Auburn scored, I said to several people the game was over and FSU was going to win. Coincidentally, everyone of them agreed with me that Auburn left too much time on the clock like dummies. Hell, even Musberger asked if it was too much time left on the clock.
Football has evolved. The 2 yards and a cloud of dust mentality is over. Teams can move the ball in this pass happy, clock stops on every first down, we call PI if you blow on someone, game. It's ludicrous to give your opponent a CHANCE to beat you. You bleed the clock then go beat them.
Anyone trusting Auburn's defense was just foolish. They were what we thought they were. Porous, leaky, and inept. Way to setup Winston for his Heisman moment. Stupid.
The bottom line for me is that Auburn hasn't been very good on defense all year long. They couldn't stop FSU in the 4th quarter. FSU was moving the ball at will in the 4th quarter. 1:19 is an eternity in CFB. Do you trust your offense with a first and goal or do you trust your defense with 1:19? The answer was very clear to me watching the game.
As soon as Auburn scored, I said to several people the game was over and FSU was going to win. Coincidentally, everyone of them agreed with me that Auburn left too much time on the clock like dummies. Hell, even Musberger asked if it was too much time left on the clock.
Football has evolved. The 2 yards and a cloud of dust mentality is over. Teams can move the ball in this pass happy, clock stops on every first down, we call PI if you blow on someone, game. It's ludicrous to give your opponent a CHANCE to beat you. You bleed the clock then go beat them.
Anyone trusting Auburn's defense was just foolish. They were what we thought they were. Porous, leaky, and inept. Way to setup Winston for his Heisman moment. Stupid.
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No what's dumb is the archaic belief that "You always take the points when you are losing".
The game has changed the good coaches adapt (Belichik, Gus, etc.) You should go for it on 4th and less than 5 most of the time. You should call time outs on defense when another team is about to score to preserve enough time for your offense. There are certain times where running the clock is much more important than scoring points.
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Posted on 1/7/14 at 12:39 pm to GatorNation4Lyfe
And if you were to take a poll prior to Auburn scoring the last TD, I bet you a significant amount of people would have told you last night that Auburn left too much time on the clock by scoring too quick. I was on multiple forums, including this one and there were a bunch of folks all commenting that Auburn scored too quick. So if all of us were thinking that, Brent Musberger was thinking that, heck I heard several of the coaches on the ESPN2 channel comment the same thing THEN WHY THE HELL DO YOU SCORE SO QUICKLY?
Coaches need to better understand clock management (especially, Auburn and Kansas City Chiefs) and teach their players situational football. I saw Maurice Jones Drew take a knee at the 1 to setup a win for the Jags a few years ago. I saw Belichek instruct his RB (was it Blount?) to do the same but his momentum took him in the end zone but they still escaped with a victory.
You can go back in history and see a ton of last minute heroics (the drive, the catch, the immaculate reception, etc.)
Coaches need to better understand clock management (especially, Auburn and Kansas City Chiefs) and teach their players situational football. I saw Maurice Jones Drew take a knee at the 1 to setup a win for the Jags a few years ago. I saw Belichek instruct his RB (was it Blount?) to do the same but his momentum took him in the end zone but they still escaped with a victory.
You can go back in history and see a ton of last minute heroics (the drive, the catch, the immaculate reception, etc.)
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