They really are a team right now and have been all this year. I want an offense that takes it personally when they don't score more than the opponent and a D that takes it personally when they let a team score more than our offense. Whether the final score in a loss is 9-7 or 48-43. Let us fans squabble over which unit cost us the game.
They had to do more than just run out the clock, they had to score. I still say it's better to play from ahead than behind no matter how much time is on the clock. I wish we had just marched methodically down the field, but you never refuse a gift score in the mouth.
It's bigger than sure points vs maybe points. It's telling the defense you have no confidence in holding a lead. We didn't even need them to get us the ball back this time, we just needed them to not let UNC go through them like a hot knife through butter. Nobody refuses a score when LOSING. Nobody. It's sends all kinds of bad messages. Losing the trust of your team is bigger than the chance of losing any game, and that's all it was... a chance. It's not like our D has never made a stop in it's life.@dressedcheeseside knowing how the game played out, now that we are on the other side of the game... would you still choose the same loss or attempt to change history by asking Smelter to go down after the 1st down? I know this is a dumb question
I think we had a bigger chance to win with our O leading ~70% of drives to a TD versus ~30% of drives that the team stopped a TD... I go with the bigger chance.
I also realize the benefits of your point of view of points on the board versus maybe points... you go with for sure points on the score board.
Shoot, I would have loved for sure points followed by all or nothing defense to get the ball back wither way.
I think it is more reasonable to just not call a play that has a decent chance of being an explosion play than to instruct Smelter to only get the first down. However when you have to go 25 yards to get a first down already and you are losing the game the potential explosion play call makes a lot of sense.@dressedcheeseside knowing how the game played out, now that we are on the other side of the game... would you still choose the same loss or attempt to change history by asking Smelter to go down after the 1st down? I know this is a dumb question
I think we had a bigger chance to win with our O leading ~70% of drives to a TD versus ~30% of drives that the team stopped a TD... I go with the bigger chance.
I also realize the benefits of your point of view of points on the board versus maybe points... you go with for sure points on the score board.
Shoot, I would have loved for sure points followed by all or nothing defense to get the ball back wither way.
That's pretty much what CPJ said last night on the radio show. Sell out to get a stop and if you get burned at least you get the ball back.
What gives? Why in the hell didn't he do it then???
He just said if we could do it again that's what we probably should have done. He was being candid.
I apologize for my cryptic remarks. I assume people know what I'm thinking sometimes, and in this case I assumed you guys listened to the show. My bad. A caller asked him if he wished Smelter had run out of bounds or gone down and he said we would all be really upset if he did that and we didn't score. Then he made the comment about what we probably should have done on D.