Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
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.
I agree. And I guess I need to be more clear on my 4th and short thoughts. My point is, you can't be in shotgun formation, against a SEC D, everyone know what's coming, and plunge Dak forward for a yard. You get his ass up under center and QB sneak it...that way you only have to get 1 yard instead of 5. I hate running short yardage in shotgun. And I know Dak doesn't practice much under center, but we need to be able to get under center in a 4th and inches situation. We can out physical a lot of teams, but it doesn't matter if it's an inch against Bama and LSU that is still hard to get from shotgun