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I’m not a huge Enos guy. Some head scratchers out there. But the screen on the 1st TD was a **** of a call then goes for the gusto on the first play of the second drive and Pope drops a ball that was put in the bread basket. Was a great design he was wide open, Pope decelerated at the end and flat out dropped it.

Couple big drops by Hightower and Osborn on first down is the difference between 2nd and 4 and 2nd and 10. Doesn’t show up on the stat sheet, but it’s huge for sustaining drives.

Again some head scratchers but there were a lot of plays players were set up for success and they failed.
 
Once their best player #34 Hall went down on the special teams injury I could not believe we were not attacking the replacement, or moving things around to force them to make adjustments and decisions while shorthanded.

Hall is a top pro prospect with a crazy number of passes broken up, something like twice as many as any other defender in the nation in recent years. You could see how much he meant to Virginia's team by the way they reacted to the injury. Yet we seemed content to pretend it didn't happen, until the final drive anyway.

Yeah, some of our 3rd and short calls seemed like they sourced from Adam Gase.

But throughout the game I wasn't particularly worried due to two aspects -- the short week at home advantage, and seeing how incredibly limited Virginia's offense was. I basically was never worried about them driving the field. They weren't creating spacing so it wasn't going to happen 6 or 8 times on one drive. I was concerned they might pop something. Fortunately it never happened and they really didn't attempt a deep ball until the closing Hail Mary.

BTW, I thought that was poor coaching by Manny to call time out prior to the Hail Mary. Given our relentless rush and intensity level there was no way the Virginia receivers were going to have enough time to get to the end zone, nor the quarterback have enough time to wander around and launch it there. Only Manny's decision to call time out and then peel everybody back gave Virginia an opportunity it did not deserve.

I realize stuff like that gets lost during a victory but it absolutely was the wrong decision from a situational standpoint.

Also I would have gone for 2 while up 16-9 instead of kicking the extra point. I was screaming for that from the stands. But I realize the vast majority of fans and analysts and coaches are not prepared for futuristic moves like that, even if it is absolutely the correct move from a probability standpoint of winning the game. I mentioned a few days ago here that Pete Carroll wisely went for 2 against New England in the same scenario -- up 7 late -- during the 2016 season. I would have be praising Manny profusely and have considerably more confidence in his long term prospects if he had gone for 2 there.
 
MiamiVice7 said:
That’s what we did after our first TD drive. All 6 possessions ended in punts.

I just don’t get it.

Even with a bad oline. Even with a bad OC. Even dropping passes. How do you run 23 plays and only have 33 yards?

That’s stupid bad.
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funny how we were in spread that whole time, then we finally get back to 22 personnel and we drive the field for a score. I thought spread was the only way we could succeed?
 
Awsi Dooger said:
Once their best player #34 Hall went down on the special teams injury I could not believe we were not attacking the replacement, or moving things around to force them to make adjustments and decisions while shorthanded.

Hall is a top pro prospect with a crazy number of passes broken up, something like twice as many as any other defender in the nation in recent years. You could see how much he meant to Virginia's team by the way they reacted to the injury. Yet we seemed content to pretend it didn't happen, until the final drive anyway.

Yeah, some of our 3rd and short calls seemed like they sourced from Adam Gase.

But throughout the game I wasn't particularly worried due to two aspects -- the short week at home advantage, and seeing how incredibly limited Virginia's offense was. I basically was never worried about them driving the field. They weren't creating spacing so it wasn't going to happen 6 or 8 times on one drive. I was concerned they might pop something. Fortunately it never happened and they really didn't attempt a deep ball until the closing Hail Mary.

BTW, I thought that was poor coaching by Manny to call time out prior to the Hail Mary. Given our relentless rush and intensity level there was no way the Virginia receivers were going to have enough time to get to the end zone, nor the quarterback have enough time to wander around and launch it there. Only Manny's decision to call time out and then peel everybody back gave Virginia an opportunity it did not deserve.

I realize stuff like that gets lost during a victory but it absolutely was the wrong decision from a situational standpoint.

Also I would have gone for 2 while up 16-9 instead of kicking the extra point. I was screaming for that from the stands. But I realize the vast majority of fans and analysts and coaches are not prepared for futuristic moves like that, even if it is absolutely the correct move from a probability standpoint of winning the game. I mentioned a few days ago here that Pete Carroll wisely went for 2 against New England in the same scenario -- up 7 late -- during the 2016 season. I would have be praising Manny profusely and have considerably more confidence in his long term prospects if he had gone for 2 there.
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We did. Remember the drive that started with the 3 completions to KJ? Those were where Hall would have been.
 
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