Part of me doesn’t blame Mario or Dawson for getting a little conservative at the end of games when we’re up by 2 scores. Look, I don’t want to take away anything from Beck. He had a fine season and made some excellent plays that helped lead us to a Natty. But in those “play from behind” type situations? He either throws a pick or throws 2 passes that should have been picked until he eventually throws a pick. Murder murder murder wasn’t so much his style. I’m not blaming him for the Natty loss because in my opinion we were very fortunate to even get another shot to take the lead, but that pick on the last drive was a bad one. Double coverage. Poorly thrown. And totally not necessary considering we had plenty of time to get in the endzone with 51 seconds left and 41 yards away. We could have gotten closer and maybe get into a situation like we did against Ole Miss where Beck had an option to take it in himself. Although that was probably unlikely.
Now next year with Mensah…I think he could be that murderer we seek