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Originally Posted by FirstandTen
Wow ur furious  ! I never said anything about 80's or 90's or the Hogs where did that come from? You dusted them off for no reason. Scoring 35pts I think the O is fine. Everyone's not just hung up on the 25 sec's everyone just knows that there were 5 or 6 reasons we lost this game.
Running the ball on third down was guaranteed to keep the clock moving, and a high percentage to get the first down considering how were running the ball. A pass could be incomplete stopping the clock, picked off, or Brunell could get sacked and loose yardage. Oline had to chance to step up and win the game and they did not. That still left our Def with a good chance to stop them. |
Well the flow of the game was defiently tilting towards Tampa, they found our week spot down the middle and we weren't stopping them, so the correct call is to get a first down, the key in that situatuation is not to run one minute off the clock, the key is to not allow Tampa an opportunity on offense, without a firstdown Tampa gets the ball back with enough time to drive the length of the field, considering how fast they were carving up our secondary at that point we should have played desperate for a 1st down, not go into a shell worried about a possible TO, or stoppage of the clock.
But I guess we don't learn, Gibbs is bent on proving Portis is the all around back that he keeps telling us he is, Portis is not going to make yards on his own powering the ball, then consider our line and the lack of push and there it is, we can't run the ball in obvious running situations, so why try when the game is on the line? That is the weekest part of our offense and yet at the most crucial point in the game we go to our weekest link to win it, kind of like Mariano Rivera throwing 3 changeup's in a row with the bases loaded up 3 in the 9th, just doesn't make sense.