Tabb kicks a field to win with 3 seconds left. From the Poquoson perspective this was an absolute embarrassment! Three passes right on the numbers dropped, two muffed punts for turnovers, horrid play calling, a fumble within the Tabb 10 yardline, and penalties up the ying yang with an officiating crew just itching to litter the field with laundry. Disgusting performance!
My apologies Islandersfan. I didn't see your post before I started the other thread. Islandersfan, what did I tell you was critical to put the game away? Score TD's when inside the Tabb redzone and not turnover which would basically put them away and they would have believed they were finished if down 14 or even 21-0 zip early in the game. We did exactly the opposite. The fumble inside the ten late in the first quarter with a chance to go up 14-0 absolutely handed, begged, pleaded for Tabb to take the momentum and make it a game. In a rivalry game, you simply can't turn the ball over early. We all know that Tabb was playing their Superbowl. They were going to get the breaks, maybe get some calls at Bailey Field, and that we wouldn't play anywhere close to our potential. We knew that would happen. The way you overcome that is exactly why and what I wrote about. Put them AWAY early and that we would have that chance. Well, we had that chance and the only way we don't put them away is by.....not scoring inside their ten early in the game and turning the ball over with a chance to go up 14-0 and pretty much/very likely putting the game away in the first 12 minutes. Again, we did opposite. All the credit to Tabb. When you refuse to put a rival team away, you get into a situation late in the fourth quarter where anything can happen. You give chance "a chance." That's what happened.
Within a 3 minute span at the end of 1st quarter and early into the 2nd quarter. We are up 7-0, fumble inside their ten with a chance to go up 14-0. We hold Tabb and force them to punt and we fumble the run back and they recover and have first down! We would have had the ball at their 38-39 yardlineish. From that point, I told my wife. We are in trouble and this game will be decided in the last minute with us having a chance to likely lose. Tabb on that possession went right down the field and tied it. What suddenly looked like a 21-0 game was now 7-7 in the mid second. Credit Tabb. No excuses here.
