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I Rewatched the Five Straight 3-and-outs

Elmer Leghorn said:
Dawson is Jekyll and Hyde. Sometimes good, sometimes terrible. I'm assuming guys being dinged up changed the game and play calling, but is was really just typical Dawson. He's never out schemed anybody. Never. Doesn't matter who the opponent is, same play calling. Very easy to figure out for opposing coaches.
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Wake DC must have turned Dawson’s brain to mush. He had no answers whatsoever. They might has well have had our entire playbook. It’s what it looked like.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
A few things.

1. By the time we went cold, both Mensah and Toney were banged up. Obviously not bad enough to pull them, but it certainly impacted the quality of their play. You could see both of them stretching and working on impacted body parts while the defense was on the field.

2. The overthrow to Lofton was hurried, and while Mensah has hit that pass before (notably, the first TD to Toney against Stanford), the earlier pain and the desire not to be hurt more at this point in the game may have caused him to throw it a bit harder than he should have.

3. Don't listen to the announcers, they have no idea who was hurting at that time in the game.

I will say the same thing that I have said in other threads related to the mishandling of the clock at the end of the first half and the decision to kick a 54 yard FG, we should have been trying to score more points to take the fight out of Wake. Their players were pushing our guys to fight, they were going for 2 points when down 24, and they were calling timeouts while down 2 scores with 5 minutes to go. They were doing everything possible to fight as hard as possible, and we needed knockout blows earlier. NOT FOR POINT SPREAD, but to end the game and allow us to play the backups and nurse our injuries.

In one game, we took hits to:

1. Possible first-round DL
2. Our top-2 RBs
3. Our All-American QB
4. Our All-World WR
5. At least one somewhat-needed DB

Now, some of those injuries may be minor, but if Wake was a more physical team that could hit harder, that would be SIX brutal injuries in one game. That is a game where you need to administer the knockout as quickly as possible to get your best players off the field.
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The field goal try was a mistake. This game was our Antietam
 
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