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SC BeachSep 27, 7:58 PM

That loss is on Lincoln

If your defense is not holding them you bleed the clock, PERIOD! You don’t give them the ball back. You are getting 3-4 yards a carry, you bleed the clock. Even if the defense tries to let you score so their offense can get the ball back for a winning drive you get the first and go to the ground. Peewee football coaches know this. Lincoln called a great balanced game, but this one simple fact cost us another game. No other way to say it other than it is just dumb coaching. Fix this blind spot Lincoln, you had this game and you let it slip. Fight On ✌️
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Bigmac51

Sep 27, 8:00 PM

SC Beach said:
If your defense is not holding them you bleed the clock, PERIOD! You don’t give them the ball back. You are getting 3-4 yards a carry, you bleed the clock. Even if the defense tries to let you score so their offense can get the ball back for a winning drive you get the first and go to the ground. Peewee football coaches know this. Lincoln called a great balanced game, but this one simple fact cost us another game. No other way to say it other than it is just dumb coaching. Fix this blind spot Lincoln, you had this game and you let it slip. Fight On ✌️
Wrong- all on defense, couldn't get a stop all day-defensive line got their ass whipped al game
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Puckhog16

Sep 27, 8:01 PM

SC Beach said:
If your defense is not holding them you bleed the clock, PERIOD! You don’t give them the ball back. You are getting 3-4 yards a carry, you bleed the clock. Even if the defense tries to let you score so their offense can get the ball back for a winning drive you get the first and go to the ground. Peewee football coaches know this. Lincoln called a great balanced game, but this one simple fact cost us another game. No other way to say it other than it is just dumb coaching. Fix this blind spot Lincoln, you had this game and you let it slip. Fight On ✌️
Everyone watching the game other than our moronic coach knew that. It’s almost like he wanted to make sure they score so he looks good on offense instead of trying to win. Maybe he wants an NFL OC job and is auditioning? Maybe wants to be bought out. It might be the worst coaching blunder I’ve seen since Can’t Hackett.
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Puckhog16

Sep 27, 8:02 PM

Bigmac51 said:
Wrong- all on defense, couldn't get a stop all day-defensive line got their *** whipped al game
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SC Beach

Sep 27, 8:03 PM

Bigmac51 said:
Wrong- all on defense, couldn't get a stop all day-defensive line got their *** whipped al game
Wrong, as a head coach he screwed it. If your defense isn’t stopping them you as a head coach you don’t put it on your defense, period. That is what head coaches do. If LR was an OC fine, but as a head coach he screwed this one up. i have coached many games we won by letting a team score so we got the last drive and they knew we could score on them.
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Puckhog16

Sep 27, 8:03 PM

As HC you see how bad your defense is and try to win the game by controlling the clock. As bad as D is, this was winnable, kept snapping with 16-21 seconds left on clock. Could have left them 20-30 seconds but wanted to score too badly.
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TrojanFan848

Sep 27, 8:03 PM

Who’s going to ask Riley what the fck was he thinking not bleeding clock
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Mr Know It All

Sep 27, 8:04 PM

We had it won. Jut bleed the clock and score with less than 10 seconds left.
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TheRealUSC

Sep 27, 8:04 PM

100%
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rdktsi

Sep 27, 8:04 PM

This one on the Coach.
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rdktsi

Sep 27, 8:05 PM

Imagine having a coach that understands play clock. We would have much different record past few seasons.
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SC Beach

Sep 27, 8:05 PM

Puckhog16 said:
Everyone watching the game other than our moronic coach knew that. It’s almost like he wanted to make sure they score so he looks good on offense instead of trying to win. Maybe he wants an NFL OC job and is auditioning? Maybe wants to be bought out. It might be the worst coaching blunder I’ve seen since Can’t Hackett.
Exactly Puck! I wouldn’t fault an OC doing it if the head coach told him, just score. but as a HC, plain and simple, he screwed it.
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TroyBill

Sep 27, 8:06 PM

Our D line did nothing to pressure Altmire. All of these great stats on sacks and pressuring the QB look good when you play lower tier teams. LR cannot seem to win consistently on the road. I think he has only won twice in the last 3 years. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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USC_FB_5

Sep 27, 8:06 PM

Illinois had 3 timeouts. Didn’t even need it for offense. If we run the ball a few times and how much time actually comes off the clock?
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SC Beach

Sep 27, 8:08 PM

rdktsi said:
Imagine having a coach that understands play clock. We would have much different record past few seasons.
100%! If your defense is a liability, you play to score last. This is not a hard concept. 8 year olds playing Madden Football understands the concept. It has been a major blind spot for CLR! and I’m a Riley fan, but dang he just doesn’t see this part of the game!?!
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Austinhalloran

Sep 27, 8:09 PM

It’s on everyone. Lincoln did a horrible job of dictating pace and the first half went exactly how Illinois would draw it up if they could. And he’s a bozo for scoring with 1:55 left and not running the ball Waymond stepped out of bounds and fumbled on the opening drive. Maiva threw a pick, which is fine, but sabotaged the next drive because he couldn’t get it out of his head. And Lincoln had to tell him to keep the ball on the read option to get it off his mind and keep the defense honest Braylon Conley is an absolutely horrible football player all around. Worst player on the field for either team J’onre Reed is robbing hov donors blind. I would cut him immediately if I could, I don’t care. If anyone on the d line thought they were a first round talent there’s about 50 plays to look at to see why you’re not a first rounder Lynn is absolutely horrible. His pass defense is so bad it makes the awful run defense look good. 3 and a half quarters of play that is embarrassing to be considered USC Trojan Linebackers from EG and Stephens anyone that blames coach Reed shouldn’t… he didn’t replace anyone. He was added to the staff, there was no subtraction in the secondary. It falls on Lynn and belk before him, even though the corners suck The team should apologize to makai for not being worthy and everyone making more than 6 figures should donate to the makai lemon foundation
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calikilo

Sep 27, 8:11 PM

Puckhog16 said:
Everyone watching the game other than our moronic coach knew that. It’s almost like he wanted to make sure they score so he looks good on offense instead of trying to win. Maybe he wants an NFL OC job and is auditioning? Maybe wants to be bought out. It might be the worst coaching blunder I’ve seen since Can’t Hackett.
You sound stupid af 🤡🤡. You score when you can and it’s on the defense to hold up and make a stop. Unfortunately they couldn’t do that.
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AMyers44

Sep 27, 8:13 PM

Last year he tried that strategy and that failed. You cannot protect them forever. Without some opportunistic turnovers this year, the record could be worse. Simply put, the D needs to get better.
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uncle lo

Sep 27, 8:13 PM

It was nothing more then a team lost D line no pressure, still looking for LBers to do something other than gentry and D- backs make to many mistakes to young maybe but if that's all you have you have do, O line underperformed.
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SC Beach

Sep 27, 8:16 PM

USC_FB_5 said:
Illinois had 3 timeouts. Didn’t even need it for offense. If we run the ball a few times and how much time actually comes off the clock?
We had it on the 17 yd line with 2:00 on the clock. We get another first down on the 7 yd line. Do the math, easy to burn 3 timeouts and score with best case for Illinois less than a minute And no timeouts. You win that game.
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BlemBlam

Sep 27, 8:17 PM

Bigmac51 said:
Wrong- all on defense, couldn't get a stop all day-defensive line got their *** whipped al game
Doesn’t matter what happened before. He had a chance to win the game. YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME. We had first and 10 at the 16. We could have run six or 7 plays and eaten up all their timeouts and at least 75-90 seconds.
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usc88

Sep 27, 8:17 PM

No the loss is not on Lincoln He gave the team a lead to protect with 155 sec to go. The blame is on recruiting not having enough defensive backs
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ToddSC

Sep 27, 8:18 PM

You score when you can, yes, if you have some semblance of a defense. But not with this piece of crap D. This is a D as bad as any of the hall of fame bad defenses this guy has fielded. I honestly think it’s a culture thing, still. The defenses consistently wilt like a dead flower.
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BlemBlam

Sep 27, 8:19 PM

TrojanFan848 said:
Who’s going to ask Riley what the fck was he thinking not bleeding clock
I can guarantee you that someone will.
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Gold Trojan

Sep 27, 8:20 PM

1. You always score if you’re behind (we were) 2. Most people forget that it took Illinois all of 1 minute to get into FG range (without using their TOs) 3. This loss is completely on the defense (specifically pass defense) for not getting off the field. 1 punt, 0 Ints (again), 2 (that’s right 2) pass breakups for the whole game. And, Illinois isn’t even a passing team. But that stat line reads 21/27 (78%) 331 yards 3 TDs 0 Ints. You’d have thought we were facing Tom Brady and Larry Fitzgerald.

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