That is true about the Ole Miss score not indicative of the competitiveness of the game. Alas, Wake Forest fans are at this moment consoling themselves that in the fourth quarter they were driving for a go ahead score only for Griffis to throw an interception. That boy's problem is he following the footsteps of a quarterback that is probably the best in living memory at Wake Forest while King has a much lower bar to hurdle.
Watching the end of that game must have been excruciating for Dabo. He had his team right in the middle of the field for a makeable field goal not exactly as I recall chip shot but 9 times out of 10 the Tiger kicker probably nails that in practice. Oops! Must have been the tenth time.
Griffis admittedly suffers from comparisons with the previous Wake quarterback Sam Hartman but he was no slouch coming out of high school. Griffis was all state in Virginia and his region's player of the year. His father was his high school coach so he should know what he is doing, I would think. Wake has a good team, just not a great one and one that is not on par with the ones in recent years.
Tough draw, I agree. But I think they'll have a shot at N C State, Syracuse and even Duke. All they need is one win from that group to be bowl eligible, right?
I do think we have tried to "hold on to leads" in both Louisville and WF games, rather than trying to continue attacking. This concerns me greatly. I would love to have a dominating offensive line that could allow us ot run out the clock and hold leads, but I don't think we're there (yet).
Regardless of who made the decision, we have got to finish games. Our 4th quarters excluding SC State have produced much weaker offense and left the defense on the field. Though we outscored Wake due to turnovers, we would have been outscored again. Hopefully will not matter against Bowling Green but it will against most of our remaining opponentd.
We aren't powerful enough in the running game -yet- to sit on a lead. Our defense has continued to give up yardage. Finally got turnovers at Wake to preserve the win
We don't know and probably never will but Coach Key is heavily influenced by Saban who had the players to run in the fourth quarter with a lead and then run some more. We don't have that but get more linemen and one day we just might be able to line up and say "Here we come, just try to stop this off tackle play...bet you can't do it."
it was always so weird to me. it seemed like the main reason a lot of the people who wanted him actually wanted him was just because he was an industrial engineer and nothing to do with his actual coaching.
Which burns more clock—a 3 and out running the ball, or getting first downs completing passes 3/5ths of the time?
What is your math here? It'd be great to run opponents to death in the 3rd and 4th quarter but slugboy is right -- we haven't showed any ability to do that, so I'd rather pass and keep attacking (generally -- more context needed of course to really decide run vs throw). Run, run, run, punt or run, run, incomplete pass, punt with a lead is predictable and very stoppable against us -- a good formula for continuing to blow leads.
In the 3rd quarter, it doesn’t make much sense to me to adjust your play calling to burn clock at the expense of explosive plays, unless you have a ridiculous lead. A 15-point lead is not enough. In the fourth with a 15-point lead, it might help, but would still be circumstantial.
