FlabLoser
10-06-2013, 01:10 AM
Actually, this takeaway is from tonight and the other L's this season.
When we have a change for a major momentum shift, the other teams makes the play. When we have a chance to really put the other team on their heals, the other team makes the play.
Exhibit A: End of the 1st half with the lead, we need to either score or run out the clock. Instead we go 3 & out. I question the 3rd & 1 play call but regardless the play was there to be made but Tubby & Russell don't connect and we punt to LSU. And LSU does what winning teams do...score at the end of the 1st half.
Same thing happened at several points in the game. We have a chance to extend the lead or turn the game in our favor, but don't. LSU, probably sensing the same thing, steps up and makes the play.
Exhibit B: OSU game, we block a kick at the end of the 1st half, and have blockers set up to return it for a TD, but OSU still manages to split the blockers and make a tackle.
Exhibit C: @ Auburn, many chances on offense and defense to seal the win at the end of the 4th quarter, but Auburn made every play instead of us.
I don't know what the answer to this is.
2009 - Tyson Lee stopped at the goal line to give LSU a W
2010 - Against Cam Newton's Auburn - We drop a pass at the 5 yard line at the end of the game. If we score a TD there, we win (and Auburn doesn't win the national title)
2011 - Going for comeback win @ Auburn, we drive the length of the field in our 2 minute offense. Then Chris Relf is upended at the 1 yard line on 4th down.
2012 - @ LSU, pretty much the same as tonight. When we have chances to push the lead or have a big momentum swing, Milton fumbles, or LSU makes a play instead of us.
We have enough athletes to compete. We have enough athletes to win an upset now and then, but we don't do that. We don't have the depth that the LSU's have. We have weak spots that the LSU's don't have. Sure part of this is that we just need a few more players. But I think the bigger issue is that at critical times, we just don't make the play.
When we have a change for a major momentum shift, the other teams makes the play. When we have a chance to really put the other team on their heals, the other team makes the play.
Exhibit A: End of the 1st half with the lead, we need to either score or run out the clock. Instead we go 3 & out. I question the 3rd & 1 play call but regardless the play was there to be made but Tubby & Russell don't connect and we punt to LSU. And LSU does what winning teams do...score at the end of the 1st half.
Same thing happened at several points in the game. We have a chance to extend the lead or turn the game in our favor, but don't. LSU, probably sensing the same thing, steps up and makes the play.
Exhibit B: OSU game, we block a kick at the end of the 1st half, and have blockers set up to return it for a TD, but OSU still manages to split the blockers and make a tackle.
Exhibit C: @ Auburn, many chances on offense and defense to seal the win at the end of the 4th quarter, but Auburn made every play instead of us.
I don't know what the answer to this is.
2009 - Tyson Lee stopped at the goal line to give LSU a W
2010 - Against Cam Newton's Auburn - We drop a pass at the 5 yard line at the end of the game. If we score a TD there, we win (and Auburn doesn't win the national title)
2011 - Going for comeback win @ Auburn, we drive the length of the field in our 2 minute offense. Then Chris Relf is upended at the 1 yard line on 4th down.
2012 - @ LSU, pretty much the same as tonight. When we have chances to push the lead or have a big momentum swing, Milton fumbles, or LSU makes a play instead of us.
We have enough athletes to compete. We have enough athletes to win an upset now and then, but we don't do that. We don't have the depth that the LSU's have. We have weak spots that the LSU's don't have. Sure part of this is that we just need a few more players. But I think the bigger issue is that at critical times, we just don't make the play.