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Did Pete con Wittingham?

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,920 Founders Club
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With 30 secs left and the run on 1st down? Sure looked like we were content to go to OT and then Wittingham takes the bait. Was this a feint move?
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  • topdawgnc
    topdawgnc Member Posts: 7,842
    That would require strategery ... something we’re not use to seeing from a Husky coach
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  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,464
    Miley_Cyrus said:

    Just rewatched... Utah only had 2 timeouts left and Whittingham called one after a first down run. They couldn't have gotten the ball back unless we somehow stopped the clock ourselves. Holy fuckall what was Whittingham doing?

    He was probably hoping that Jake would fuck up catastrophically. Not a terrible strategy.
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  • MisterEm
    MisterEm Member Posts: 6,685
    SpoonieLuv said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    YellowSnow said:

    With 30 secs left and the run on 1st down? Sure looked like we were content to go to OT and then Wittingham takes the bait. Was this a feint move?

    maybe Pete told Smith "don't do anything stupid" and Smith thought that meant to call a running play.
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    The obscenity police pulls a LOL out of his ass every once in awhile. This was one.
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  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    Miley_Cyrus said:

    Just rewatched... Utah only had 2 timeouts left and Whittingham called one after a first down run. They couldn't have gotten the ball back unless we somehow stopped the clock ourselves. Holy fuckall what was Whittingham doing?

    I figured he thought he had 3 timeouts remaining.
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  • DoubleJDawg
    DoubleJDawg Member Posts: 637
    EsophagealFeces said:

    Miley_Cyrus said:

    Just rewatched... Utah only had 2 timeouts left and Whittingham called one after a first down run. They couldn't have gotten the ball back unless we somehow stopped the clock ourselves. Holy fuckall what was Whittingham doing?

    He was probably hoping that Jake would fuck up catastrophically. Not a terrible strategy.
    That definitely had to be a big part of it -- who wouldn't want to give Jake more plays to make stupid audibles, bad decisions, and/or get helicoptered on hopeless runs. I don't think it was a bad decision at all.
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  • DoubleJDawg
    DoubleJDawg Member Posts: 637
    DerekJohnson said:

    YellowSnow said:

    With 30 secs left and the run on 1st down? Sure looked like we were content to go to OT and then Wittingham takes the bait. Was this a feint move?

    maybe Pete told Smith "don't do anything stupid" and Smith thought that meant to call a running play.
    My first thought when the play ran was that Browning audibled into it -- everyone was so smug and proud of him when he did that on the 4th and 10 play against Oregon St
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,951 Founders Club
    DerekJohnson said:

    YellowSnow said:

    With 30 secs left and the run on 1st down? Sure looked like we were content to go to OT and then Wittingham takes the bait. Was this a feint move?

    maybe Pete told Smith "don't do anything stupid" and Smith thought that meant to call a running play.
    If this happened, Smith would've thrown because he obviously thinks running the ball is stupid.
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