Quote Originally Posted by CadaverDawg View Post
I agree, but it frustrates the hell out of me when a team has a 3rd and 1, doesn't make it, then on 4th and 1 they try running it up the middle when everyone knows that is the obvious play call, and they get stuffed again. Why not run a normal play? Or better yet, if you know you'll go for it on 4th down if you don't make it on 3rd down, why not stay in your same formation and just run a play as if it is 2nd and 7 or something? For some coaches to be so smart at football, you sure see a lot of them that allow situations to dictate what they do, and completely take them away from what has been working for them.

Another example would be the prevent defense, or going conservative on offense to try and run clock. If prevent kept teams from scoring, you would run it all game. If what you have been running on offense has gotten you a lead, keep doing it and you won't need to run clock because you will be ahead by more points.

It's shit like that that drives me insane.

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I agree with much of what you said, but we should be able to run an obvious play and get one yard. That's about being physical more than anything. It's about down and distance and odds. I like to be conventional on 4th and 1 because we HAVE to reduce the chances of screwing up as much as possible. Who would you rather have the ball on 4th and 1? Morrow or Robinson? And yes, that's a strawman arguement, but you get my point. I wish we had run a conservative play against LSU five years ago- I know that much.

I agree that we go into prevent WAY too soon. We should only go to prevent with 30 seconds on the clock as opposed to 2 minutes and change.

And I don't mind running it late in the game, but we need to be more creative with the run calls. We start running Dak and that's about it.