roadkill
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This is silly logic. “Let’s give ourselves bad field position so we can play more keep away.” The primary objective is to score more points than your opponent. Bobby Dodd would be shaking his head in bewilderment.I was thinking about it later and similarly I bet he was coached to take it out for this game. Key wanted to be aggressive in terms of taking risks but methodical in the offensive drives to eat clock. As you mentioned, Singleton taking it out does both. It is a risk to take it out but Singleton has the speed to bust it for a TD if the blocks are there. Then if not he likely has one more set of downs available in yardage to eat more clock.
Of the 3 drives we started after Singleton ran it to around the 15, 2 resulted in punts, and the one we scored on was only a 3-minute drive. The first punt gave Miami the ball back at their 33, resulting in a Miami score. Our two clock-eating drives that resulted in TDs both started from touchbacks.