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skinsguy · 12-27-2004, 11:24 AM

This loss has to be blamed on the defense this time. How do you stuff the Cowboys all game long only to let them march down the field in about a minute and score on a 30+ yard TD pass? I kept thinking...okay Skins all you have to do is two stop them on two more downs! Then all of a sudden..the bomb downfield! I was screaming at the television!

As for the playcalling in this situation, you can't run out the clock by passing the ball. I realize ineffective running isn't going to help much..but it does force the other team to burn timeouts. Incompletions stop the clock, and that is one thing you don't want to do in a situation of chewing up clock time...even if you do have a 3 and 15 or whatever. Even if we throw and get another first down, the Cowboys have at least one timeout left to stop the clock...and considering how fast it took them to score on us..we would have still left them with plenty of time to have scored.

12-27-2004, 11:24 AM	#63
skinsguy Pro Bowl Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Greensboro, North Carolina Posts: 6,766	This loss has to be blamed on the defense this time. How do you stuff the Cowboys all game long only to let them march down the field in about a minute and score on a 30+ yard TD pass? I kept thinking...okay Skins all you have to do is two stop them on two more downs! Then all of a sudden..the bomb downfield! I was screaming at the television! As for the playcalling in this situation, you can't run out the clock by passing the ball. I realize ineffective running isn't going to help much..but it does force the other team to burn timeouts. Incompletions stop the clock, and that is one thing you don't want to do in a situation of chewing up clock time...even if you do have a 3 and 15 or whatever. Even if we throw and get another first down, the Cowboys have at least one timeout left to stop the clock...and considering how fast it took them to score on us..we would have still left them with plenty of time to have scored.