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First of all, I'm firmly in the "fire Manny Diaz" camp. Was there long before Saturday night.
I'm also dumbfounded at our clock management at the end of the game, as are all of you.
In the "Can someone explain the last :58 seconds" thread, the consensus was that we should've let them score, as the likelihood we stop them from the 1 foot line 4 times in a row was so so low. Then we would have had :50 left and a timeout, instead of the :25 seconds and 0 timeouts. And hey, it's a rivalry game against a trash team, anything can happen.
As a fan I agree with that. All of it.
As a fan who was on my couch watching the game, I agree with that thought.
But to be a coach, IN THAT MOMENT, and to be a player IN THAT MOMENT, I'm not going to claim to know what that's like. Most of us don't know.
From the Herald today:
“You’re in a situation at times as a leader where there are no great alternatives,’’ Diaz said. “You’re simply choosing between the best worst alternative, and that’s kind of the way I feel about that sequence there. But our players were up for the fight.
“If you watch those plays and the way they were fighting and clawing and trying to keep those guys out of the end zone. Man, it’s tough to say, ‘Hey, you know what, let’s stop fighting.’ That’s a really hard one.”
But the play that haunts Diaz the most, of course, is the fourth-and-14 that FSU converted before the tough decision at the goal line.
It's gotta be so hard to, in a sense, tell your players to let your hated rival just walk into the end zone. What kind of message does that send to your team? As fans, we get it, but would the players take it that way too? Would they view it as giving up? Again I don't know the answers.
None of this should have happened though. There's no excuse for giving up 24 yards on a 4th and 14 that would have ended the game.
Trust me, this is no defense of our current head coach.
He's worse than Shannon and Golden. I hate him. Fire Manny Diaz yesterday.
All I'm saying is, in a weird kind of way, there might be a small part of me that says "I get it, try to stop them from scoring."
Even when I know in my head that that's wrong.
I'm also dumbfounded at our clock management at the end of the game, as are all of you.
In the "Can someone explain the last :58 seconds" thread, the consensus was that we should've let them score, as the likelihood we stop them from the 1 foot line 4 times in a row was so so low. Then we would have had :50 left and a timeout, instead of the :25 seconds and 0 timeouts. And hey, it's a rivalry game against a trash team, anything can happen.
As a fan I agree with that. All of it.
As a fan who was on my couch watching the game, I agree with that thought.
But to be a coach, IN THAT MOMENT, and to be a player IN THAT MOMENT, I'm not going to claim to know what that's like. Most of us don't know.
From the Herald today:
“You’re in a situation at times as a leader where there are no great alternatives,’’ Diaz said. “You’re simply choosing between the best worst alternative, and that’s kind of the way I feel about that sequence there. But our players were up for the fight.
“If you watch those plays and the way they were fighting and clawing and trying to keep those guys out of the end zone. Man, it’s tough to say, ‘Hey, you know what, let’s stop fighting.’ That’s a really hard one.”
But the play that haunts Diaz the most, of course, is the fourth-and-14 that FSU converted before the tough decision at the goal line.
It's gotta be so hard to, in a sense, tell your players to let your hated rival just walk into the end zone. What kind of message does that send to your team? As fans, we get it, but would the players take it that way too? Would they view it as giving up? Again I don't know the answers.
None of this should have happened though. There's no excuse for giving up 24 yards on a 4th and 14 that would have ended the game.
Trust me, this is no defense of our current head coach.
He's worse than Shannon and Golden. I hate him. Fire Manny Diaz yesterday.
All I'm saying is, in a weird kind of way, there might be a small part of me that says "I get it, try to stop them from scoring."
Even when I know in my head that that's wrong.
