Nothing wrong with our offense. You don’t deserve to win by giving up a 4th and 17. Plain and simple.
He does that a lot. Against LSU when we were down 10 and had to get a touchdown he went dive, dive on 3rd and 4th down and failed to get the first. Ball game. There are numerous other times that has happened.
I'll be the first to admit that I had Missouri winning handily so I am really proud of the effort for the Gators. Sometimes a guy goes out of bounds, sometimes you have questionable play calls, sometimes there's a special teams cluster or a penalty at the exact worst time. Great teams can win despite those. Good teams minimize those. Bad teams are the ones who commit them and lose. Teams with zero margin for error can't afford any of them.
What a game! Heartbreaking loss, but those Gators did not quit. If we had lost one more player on the offensive line, we would be pulling people out of the stands. Losing Mertz is a real blow, but I was very impressed with Max Brown. Don’t blame Etienne for stopping the clock running out of bounds there was plenty of plays in that game. 4th and 17 hurt worse. Th defense hung in well just couldn’t get it done. Lots of good stuff coming up the next few years. BN will get it done.
I think he says it best about the defense. However not running to the ball, horrific pursuit angles, and poor tackling........
Your argument and point are different than those saying we should throw the ball. Thanks for the response.
It really wasnt though. Look again. We have a man there and he is sort of screened by the MIZZOU mistake. They have two WR in the same spot. if it were man, the second gets covered. In a zone THEIR bad route actually hurt us.
I couldn't help but think that mizzou didn't know what Brown was going to do from play to play. Mertz going out put a lot of confusion on their defense. Why didn't we keep doing what got us down there? ETN was running through them, but so was Brown. That series should have been more of the same.
This. People are arguing as if the only thing that we could have done is a drop back pass, or that people who are complaining about playing for the field goal wanted us to go for it on fourth down. It's convenient if not downright intellectually dishonest to pretend that we've never seen exactly this sort of prevent offense from Napier in other clutch situations. The entire series was plainly and obviously about settling for the field goal. Call it going conservative, call it going into his shell, call is scared money. It is what he does because it is who he is.
It wasn't Patrick Tony last year, it's not Austin Armstrong this year. It's the Jesse's & Joe's, a little too young and thin @ key positions.
You don't deserve to win if the coach KNOWS that is a possibility and STILL decides to play offense close to his chest. This one was on the OC. Plain and simple.
And that's kind of the idea. You have the ball out early with DBs, safeties, and a LB even with the first down stick. When the ball comes out they make the play before the receiver/back makes it to the stick instead of watching a receiver catching the ball beyond the first down marker and, then, tackling him. I would also load up heavier on one side or the other and try to force the QB to roll in one direction so that you take away half of the field.
When our team is loaded with Seniors and Juniors, and not Freshmen and Sophomores. I mean, I can't speak for everyone else, but that's when I'll stop using the young players excuse.
We had a chance to win and we needed to put pressure on them and take away the possibility of a late drive for them and we did neither. The last Super Bowl is a perfect example the way the Chiefs played on their winning drive. Didn't give the Eagles a chance to come back.
