CharlotteDeac1
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Uhhh yeah Tabari Hines’ twitter activity definitely doesn’t look good
A team is always going to make bad plays. It is tue nature of competition. Coaches are paid millions of dollars to prepare for and make the right play call. We simply didn't and it cost us the game. When you make that kind of money, expect to be called out when you blow a game. If a golfer hits a 9 iron in the water in a clutch moment people understand. If a golfer is tied going into the par 5 18th hole and his caddy hands him a sand wedge because he is scared to give him the driver then that caddy should rightfully be excoriated.
I love Clawson, and I don't want anyone else for our coach, but the staff lost this one. Special teams and playcalling are the result of coaching above all else and they were our two main areas of weakness tonight. Again it is worth repeating. 32 runs for 37 yards and we decide to run a delay to halfback and a qb sneak. Neither of which had done anything all day. We curled up in a corner and just hoped fsu would break their hand on the ropes. You can't knock someone out if you are unwilling to throw a punch.
A team is always going to make bad plays. It is tue nature of competition. Coaches are paid millions of dollars to prepare for and make the right play call. We simply didn't and it cost us the game. When you make that kind of money, expect to be called out when you blow a game.
I love Clawson, and I don't want anyone else for our coach, but the staff lost this one. Special teams and playcalling are the result of coaching above all else and they were our two main areas of weakness tonight. Again it is worth repeating. 32 runs for 37 yards and we decide to run a delay to halfback and a qb sneak. Neither of which had done anything all day. We curled up in a corner and just hoped fsu would break their hand on the ropes. You can't knock someone out if you are unwilling to throw a punch.
And for the record, we threw on all 3 plays the prior series and went three and out. 2 dump offs to Colburn and the miss on the throw to a wide open Dortch about 5 yards past the chains.
Out of curiosity, what was the "right" call? Are we just to assume that calling a pass play would have been a success? First of all, I totally agree that our continued reliance on a slow-developing read option has not worked for the last 4 years. However, many are acting like all we had to do was pass the ball on that first play, and we would have automatically won the game (we were tied then and at our own 10). What if Wolford missed a wide-open receiver (like he did the previous possession)? What if a pass bounced off of a receivers pads for an INT? What if a WR fumbled after getting hit? What if Wolford fled the pocket right into the rush for a sack? Our offense isn't exactly Mike Leach era Texas Tech. The game was tied and we were on our own 10. It seems odd to me to claim that it was that single first down call that made us lose the game. That our guys were prepared to make some spectacular play, but the coaches prevented it. And that all that happened in the previous 58 minutes was less important.
Oh give me a break. There are way more lemmings saying "coaching cost us the game." I'm not saying that we saw the world's best coaching job, and the fact that we continue to rely on the world's worst read-option scheme frustrates me to no end. But tell me this, what had more of an impact on our loss? Calling a running play on first down with the ball on our own 10. Or the semi-bad snap that went through Wolford's hands that led to him throwing it out to Wade, who proceeded to cough it up. All of this while we were down around their 25 or so.
The fact of the matter is the game is played on the field. And if you repeatedly fail to make the plays that can change a game when they are presented to you, you probably aren't going to win the game.
Uhhh yeah Tabari Hines’ twitter activity definitely doesn’t look good
More people are talking about the coaching because it happened at the end of the game. During the game, people talked about those players not making the plays.
Wrangor, good posts. Here's my golf analogy. It's a pro-am. The amateur lips out a 5 footer. Tough break. He's an amateur. The pro does the same and it's an unexpected disappointment. Clawson is the pro. These players are amateurs.
What a stupid analogy. Clawson isn't out there throwing the ball, making tackles, etc. It would be more like a PGA Tour caddie telling an amateur player to hit a PW to the middle of the green,and then people blaming the caddie after the player blocks it into the bunker. Stupid caddie, if you would have told him to hit a 9 iron, I bet you he would have holed it out.
The right call was to give ournoffense a chance to win. Any number of passing plays would have given us a chance. If we failed then we failed. The outcome was secure for fsu after we ran it for no gain twice. We showed that we could move the ball through the air. We also showed that if fsu forces Wolford to scramble he could make some big plays. We knew what running would get us. 1 yard per carry. We also know that dropping to pass offered us a chance to advance and either kill the clock or go for he score.
I think Clemson could be pretty rough this coming week. They are a lot better than FSU.