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That last drive…

Play calling wasn’t great but I understand why not being overly aggressive with a QB that threw 4 picks. I wonder what’s the stipulations in his NIL contract. At what point has he breached his contract.
 
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slice it however you want, beck and staff are ******* trash and we bit the dust just like every year. brace yourselves, good chance it happens again any given week moving forward
 
U2Cane said:
Was embarrassing and pathetic. Dawson , with decent field position, 4 minutes, 3 TOs and the 2 Minute stop was playing for a FG. No attempt or even hope of a TD to steal a game. I get that beck had 3 picks but if you don’t trust him he shouldn’t be in. We’re trying to win the game , not appease his feelings. Bunch formations. 3 yard outs . Hoping to make a 40+ FG for what? An OT loss?
Scared to win. Flat out embarrassing.
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You know that white stuff in chickens**t?

It's chickens**t, too.
 
U2Cane said:
Was embarrassing and pathetic. Dawson , with decent field position, 4 minutes, 3 TOs and the 2 Minute stop was playing for a FG. No attempt or even hope of a TD to steal a game. I get that beck had 3 picks but if you don’t trust him he shouldn’t be in. We’re trying to win the game , not appease his feelings. Bunch formations. 3 yard outs . Hoping to make a 40+ FG for what? An OT loss?
Scared to win. Flat out embarrassing.
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The last drive of the game started at our 15 yard line after Toney’s fair catch of the punt
 
https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Marty_Ball

Had one year with an NFL QB showing how prolific an offense could be, even with an ooga booga run scheme, and Mario still went right back to Marty-ball like Pookie hitting the spoon

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You can hate gattis and his route concepts that put all of the receivers into the same spot of the field, you can hate Dawson and his weird tendency of calling dumb **** in the redzone, but both offenses did the very same things that have been and will continue to be the endemic issue of this team on that side of the ball and in the overall grand scheme of championship success.

I’m bipolar and my thought processes ride the highs and lows like a mf (pause) and therefore I try to not reactively porst as much as I used to, but one thing I’ve been consistent within my line of thinking is:

The common denominator of this issue starts at the top, and the common denominator needs to have a Dabo Swinney moment of realization & deviate away from whatever vision it is that we keep trying to **** two sticks together in hopes of creating a fire, because it’s not working in terms of the success that’s being aimed for.

Do you wanna win, or do you wanna win your way??
 
Sitting watching the game I was thinking what a perfect time to go two back, motion one out and run off tackle into the boundary. They were looking pass all the way. Would have been an easy 10+ run. And with the timeouts it would keep them honest allowing for P/A. But I guess if we didn’t do it all game probably not the time to start. Zero play calling deception. Terrible
 
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P-Tizzle said:
The last drive of the game started at our 15 yard line after Toney’s fair catch of the punt
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We were inside the 50 with 3 to’s, and the 2 minute warning with 3 minutes left iirc. Ran it down to 36 seconds doing 3 yard passes.
 
U2Cane said:
We were inside the 50 with 3 to’s, and the 2 minute warning with 3 minutes left iirc. Ran it down to 36 seconds doing 3 yard passes.
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Yes, I know we got to UL 32 yard line with :30 to play and still three timeouts. But the drive started on our 15 either way four minutes to play and 3 timeouts. My post is responding to where you said we had decent field position. That last drive didn’t start with decent field position.

The problem is that it took 3 1/2 minutes to only get the the 30 yard line. Typically with :30 left play, you’re either kicking the extra point after the go ahead score, or it’s at the goal line….not still 30 more yards to go. That entire drive play calling and execution was a video of what NOT to do.
 
Genghis Cane said:
Am I crazy? I didn’t see what many of you are seeing (not saying you’re wrong)

I thought we were playing to win the game by scoring a TD. It seemed the mentality was, score a touchdown with basically no time left for Louisville.

Could we have gone faster? Yes. But we were at their 30 yard line with two timeouts left when the ball was picked off. There was at least 30 seconds left on the clock. I’d prefer we had at least 45 seconds at that point, so I get the frustration. But it seemed like we were going to take a couple of shots and settle for a chip shot FG if we couldn’t punch it in.
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Looked to me we were relieved and happy to be in FG range and were just trying to pick up a few more yards to make the FG a little easier.

That play call after we got the 1st down told me all I needed to know. We throw a 3-4 yard out to Lofton. Even if the ball doesn't get tipped and Lofton makes the catch, the LB is there to tackle him for minimal gain and the clock still running. That means we either have to take our 2nd TO or hurry up to the line and run another play, losing valuable seconds. If we were inside the 10 yard line, that play would have been fine, but we still had 30+ yards to go with 36 seconds left. We were not going to take a shot downfield or over the middle. Dawson was only going to dink and dunk to the sidelines and hope that one of our guys would make a play by breaking a tackle, or was hoping for a Louisville mistake.
 
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TexasCane90 said:
Being there in the section behind the bench there didn’t seem to be any sense of urgency… how you didn’t want to push all your chips in when you were lucky to be in a position to win or tie with 4 clock stoppages is mind boggling

Louisville deserved to win that game and we had a chance to steal it and sneak out with a win. Beck was awful all night and he capped it off but Dawson/mario doubled down with that decision making down the stretch
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10000%…was at the game too and literally 0 sense of urgency last few drives. Felt like we were playing at a pace where we were up by 3 touchdowns
 
You run two min offenses in the off season… your practice during the week. To be quick and attack and get the ball down the field in case you don’t have the luxury of 4 clock stoppages…

Played scared and got what we deserved… win the **** game
 
TaylorWalls said:
Who was open for anything farther downfield?
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Im talking the pace( or lack of it) of the drive, the short passes. I have not broken the film down, so yes maybe no one is ever open. If thats the case then what has the staff done all off - season regarding WR's and TE's?
 
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