Questionable Clock Mgmt?

[fishwater99]

Anyone else think Dan waited to long with game under 3 minutes to take a TO? Another 30 seconds could have helped us win the game.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

No, he played that perfectly. On LSU's last drive, they got a first down, then on the next first down play they gained something like 7 yards. Dan didnt call a time out then because if they had gotten the first down on the next play then we would have waisted that TO. We stopped them on second down and Dan called a TO. Perfectly played.

His problem is, we didn't use the TO on our last drive when we could have a couple of times and saved 15 seconds or so. I totally understand what his play was... Get down to FG range, run once to the middle of the field, call a TO, kick it straight on. It just didnt work out that way.

 

[57stratdawg]

Was the play call late coming in on the delay of game? Mullen blamed the delay on Ross coming in motion, but I'm guess that's just the last piece of the puzzle.

If it was late getting to Dak - that is absolutely inexcusable.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Yep, played the defense TO game perfectly. Had they converted the 2nd and 3, we then had all 3 timeouts to use. They didn't, so we used them and came up with a huge stop.

I don't know how we stopped them that last drive- Fournette was running like a man possessed to start the drive.

 

[philduckworth]

Was the play call late coming in on the delay of game? Mullen blamed the delay on Ross coming in motion, but I'm guess that's just the last piece of the puzzle.

If it was late getting to Dak - that is absolutely inexcusable.

Dan couldn't decide if we should run another play or not. Then he was late getting the play in. Bear was late lining up. And then to top it off Mullen called a play with motion. Of course when all else fails that bad, you just turn to the side judge and call time out which Dan of course failed to do. It was a comedy of errors. Also, Dan could have taken a timeout earlier in the drive on a 6 yard completion to Bear and saved 20 seconds.

 

[rugbdawg]

Prior to the penalty, all we had to do was run Dak off left

tackle. At that point, they were getting way upfield with the pass rush. Pick up 4 or 5 yards and we have a very makable 42 yarder. We had done the hard part. All we needed to do was run it to setup the kick and call a timeout. But no, we had to play Msstate football against LSU.

 

[57stratdawg]

Prescott is at fault as well. He had no idea the play clock was low.

 

[121Josey]

tackle. At that point, they were getting way upfield with the pass rush. Pick up 4 or 5 yards and we have a very makable 42 yarder. We had done the hard part. All we needed to do was run it to setup the kick and call a timeout. But no, we had to play Msstate football against LSU.

Again, a good suggestion if Dak's long run is not 3 yards. They had been spying Dak the whole game. Why stop on the last play?

 

[fishwater99]

No, he played that perfectly. On LSU's last drive, they got a first down, then on the next first down play they gained something like 7 yards. Dan didnt call a time out then because if they had gotten the first down on the next play then we would have waisted that TO. We stopped them on second down and Dan called a TO. Perfectly played.

His problem is, we didn't use the TO on our last drive when we could have a couple of times and saved 15 seconds or so. I totally understand what his play was... Get down to FG range, run once to the middle of the field, call a TO, kick it straight on. It just didnt work out that way.

I would have called the TO after first down. You could say the same thing about taking it after 2nd down.
Several of us were screaming at Mullen to call that TO after that 1st down run. You knew they were going to tun it again.
Dan never took that 3rd TO, so we could have had another 30 seconds on our final drive.

Letting the play-clock run out is on our coaching staff.
Someone needs to let Dan know so he can call the TO from the sideline.
No excuses there, and Dan has already said it was his fault...

A better question is why did we wait until the 2nd half to figure out that we needed to throw the damn ball.
Why was Wilson not targeted until the 2nd half?

This is going to be a long season...

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

Again, a good suggestion if Dak's long run is not 3 yards. They had been spying Dak the whole game. Why stop on the last play?

Anything from 1-3 yards would have been perfectly fine. We were on the 29 yard line, so we would have been looking at a 43-45 yard field goal with the ball in the middle of the field.....and considering that Graves is 4-4 on the year and had drilled a 43 yarder at the end of the first half, the correct call is to tell Dak to center it up and pick up whatever he can and then you call your timeout and send out the FG unit.

 

[Klovis]

tackle. At that point, they were getting way upfield with the pass rush. Pick up 4 or 5 yards and we have a very makable 42 yarder. We had done the hard part. All we needed to do was run it to setup the kick and call a timeout. But no, we had to play Msstate football against LSU.

Got to agree here

 

[Bulldogg31]

If I could go back in time I'd love to see the shovel pass called with 8 second left. Plenty of time to run it and get the TO with 8 seconds.

 

[Drebin]

We had already run that play twice. The golden rule about a play like that is the shelf life on it is only a play or two.

 

[DancingRabbit]

While re-watching the end, the announcer said Dan was trying to get a timeout.

The camera never showed the sideline during the whole ordeal so I don't know.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I would have

had no problem giving him the ball and getting the ball to the middle of the field, on 3rd there. Hell that's what I thought we were going to do, and I wish we had, in retrospect.

 

[Bulldogg31]

I hear ya, and would normally agree, but no way they're looking for it there. You only need 4 yards or so, and if he drops it, so what? Low risk play.