Should have just spiked it. 3 downs is plenty. TO was too important to waste. Should be plenty of time to get a play call in.
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I don’t get why we still do the sideline check when the clock is important. We’re not always gonna get the perfect play, we just have to go.
1:50 with no timeouts is still a lot of time in the college game where the clock stops on first downs.
Not if we are going to let 30 seconds run off after every play.
Not if we are going to let 30 seconds run off after every play.
It’s a check with me offense. Morgan has to look to look to the sideline. If they don’t get the play called in time, it’s in the coaches. If he calls his own play, he’s going against what he’s been told to do. That’s not going to happen.
The lack of a hurry up offense is perplexing, considering so many games come down to the wire. The coaching staff needs to change their best.
We didn't have a kicker, what the hell are you talking about, 'should have taken 3'?
The defensive scheme got fixed at the half.
Fleck has taken those timeouts all year, and they have won us about 4 games.
W/o them we wouldn't have been in this game. They led to a key conversion and a touchdown.
These bandwagon fans are off their rockers.
The bad timeouts have to stop. This has been an issue dating back to last year.
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I defend PJ's use of timeouts. He uses them that aren't exactly the way everyone else uses them, but he uses them during crucial times, to make sure the team is on the right page during these crucial moments. For the timeout that's the biggest in question, which is the first and goal on the 1 with 3 minutes left, I'd much rather have him take a timeout there, as opposed to taking a 5 yard penalty...
the issue with that play however, is that his team had no idea what they were doing. They should know that they are running a dive play, and if they were trying to get creative with a pass or something, know that the audible goes to a dive play. That's a coaching mistake, not having the team prepared for that scenario...but I don't view it as a bad timeout, it was a needed timeout to not take the penalty. Again, the issue was not being aware of the situation...****, they could've even spiked the ball there. It wouldn't have been great, but it would've been better than how unprepared they were for that situation.
Yeah. It's not as much that using timeouts persay is bad.. but it seems like the reason we burn them it's because the team is at the line of scrimmage looking lost and unprepared for what to do. That's what's most frustrating. And then Fleck has to burn a timeout to salvage the play.
Not if we are going to let 30 seconds run off after every play.
That happened one time today on the goal line when Morgan pretty obviously missed the play call.
That's the exception. Not the rule.
He typically uses them after reading coverage which I absolutely love.
The timeout with 4:08 left in the first half seemed pretty bone headed too.
Green got stuffed on 3rd and 1 at 4:40.
Then they just sat around for 30 seconds and didn't even line up for 4th down before calling at timeout at 4:08. You can't excuse that as 'reading coverage'.
That was a pure waste of 30 seconds + a timeout which would have came in handy on the last drive of the half.
Video of the sequence:
https://youtu.be/pe6TR7KqwQ8?t=2970
I don't have a problem with that one. Take a minute to check the chart, talk through the kick or go decision, find a new play for 4th and short, make sure you don't take the delay, and make sure that everyone knows the play call.
They converted on 4th down. That's definitely a spot where I'm okay with taking your time to make sure you get it right.
If this was the NFL, I would agree with you. But with 4 minutes left in the 2nd in college?
9/10 times, you're not going to need that timeout, and 4/10 times, a college player is going to mess up trying to go fast in a high pressure situation.
I think he did the right thing here.
I don't have a problem with that one. Take a minute to check the chart, talk through the kick or go decision, find a new play for 4th and short, make sure you don't take the delay, and make sure that everyone knows the play call.
They converted on 4th down. That's definitely a spot where I'm okay with taking your time to make sure you get it right.
If this was the NFL, I would agree with you. But with 4 minutes left in the 2nd in college?
9/10 times, you're not going to need that timeout, and 4/10 times, a college player is going to mess up trying to go fast in a high pressure situation.
I think he did the right thing here.
Very few games are lost on time-outs.
Yesterday time out usage wasn't why we lost.
Not in the top 5 reasons.
Top five reasons we lost yesterday (in no order).
Missed tackles
Dropped ball(s)
O-Line play
4th down decisions
Kicking game
Cold start on defense
And yet some how the Gophers were 9-0 going into this game.
If only they had managed timeouts better imagine what the record would’ve been.
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It’s a check with me offense. Morgan has to look to look to the sideline. If they don’t get the play called in time, it’s on the coaches. If he calls his own play, he’s going against what he’s been told to do. That’s not going to happen.
The lack of a hurry up offense is perplexing, considering so many games come down to the wire. The coaching staff needs to change their best.
Bandwagon fan?? I've been to 50 games in the last decade.
We should have kicked the field goal late in the third. And PJ's time-out management has been crap all year even though it hasn't hurt us until tonight.
How can you have seen 50 games and not have figured out that the head coach is calling time out ONLY because there is no played called and the clock has reached "1" second left. What do you want him to do, take the five yard penalty?!? How will that help? The problem is that the offensive play caller is not getting the play call to the QB in time and yes that is a big problem that needs to be fixed.
We weren't getting the ball back thereCant be running on the field either when it's going to be first down on the 2 yard line.
I love Fleck, but he was brutal today!