WFcatamount22
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That Was some chickenshit playcalling. Hate to say it but we deserve to lose.
James should've been tossed for that targeting call
but seriously, our coaching staff lost that one for us
I would've tried the very long field goal at the end of the first half.
The coaching staff lost it narrative is so lame. Are the coaches the reason that we:
Dropped an INT in the red-zone, which would have prevented a FG
Had a safety make a terrible play on the ball on a 3rd down and 20. A stop there would have prevented another FG.
Lost a fumble inside their 25 - probably took points off of the board for us
Threw a pass 5 yards short to a wide open receiver on 3rd down on the key second to last drive. A completion there totally changes the end of the game.
Totally missed on another wide open throw on the last possession
Had a pass bounce right off a WR's shoulder pads leading to an INT in our own territory - again they end up scoring off of it
Totally screwed-up two easily downed punts inside FSU's 2 yard line
Committed a defensive holding penalty to negate a play that would have likely changed the way the last couple of minutes played out (in all fairness it looked like a pretty lame call, as the TE grabbed the Wake player)
Let's go!!!!!
(Posted as close to midnight as I could!)
And can we talk about the 2x chances to pin FSU w/in the 1 yard line on punts that we fucked? Disgraceful, and those alone would've changed the outcome of this game.
and yet, we were tied with FSU with and had the ball with 90 seconds left
Exactly - the game shouldn't have been in question in the last 90 seconds. If you continuously fail to put a team like FSU away when the opportunities present themselves, then you risk getting burned at the end. If you want to win games, you have to make game winning plays during the entire game.
Hard to have a problem with the call at the end of the first half. The no timeout followed by 2 no-chance run plays inside your own 10 yard line are really unthinkable. We hadn't gained yardarge on those plays all night, so we knew we weren't going to get the first down. The timeouts FSU called are meaningless because they are in all likelihood going to get the ball back on the Wake Forest side of the field. So our gameplan is going to be to hold them to less than 8 yards ? Thats our best shot? Why not throw the ball all three times. If you don't get it, you still have to hold them to less than 8 yards. Either way if we punted from the 8 we were going to have to stop them from getting a first down. It showed a real lack of awareness and statistical intelligence.
Wolford had a 26 yard scramble and a 33 yard scramble. Outside of those two broken plays we ran the ball 32 times for 37 yards. So in a game in which we are averaging just barely over 1 yard per carry, we are going to line up and run it twice, when we know, in all statistical probability that if we don't get a first down, that FSU will have a very good chance to kick a field goal to win the game. Yet that is exactly what we do. It is just crazy.
I'm not sure what you're arguing. We had a chance and we blew it. At that point, it doesn't matter what happened beforehand. It was a tied game.
ETA: Wrangor said it better.