Clock Mis-Managment

HillsboroDuck said:

creepycoug said:

Swaye said:

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Domicillo said:

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/9/23/17891902/oregon-washington-week-4-reaction

Nice link, but you still have a coach who persists in using a QB that eliminates any chance of you capitalizing on your window of opportunity to do something.

People forget that Peterman bungled the clock in the same way a few years ago at Arizona.

But he learned from it maybe. I have low odds on Cristoball being functionally capable of learning.

On the other hand, when Peterman made that mistake, he had already been a head coach since b4 whitey was hunting Geronimo in the mountains of New Mexico. Mario's head-coaching experience consists of trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit at FIU. Of all the many things I've ever read about crystal balls, stupid is not one of them. And, if you turn your head for five seconds, he'll fuck your wife. The guy still has those swarthy Cuban good looks. And you know it @Swaye !!!

So it's a mistake or it isn't a mistake, pick a side here.

I'm on the side that it was a mistake, same as I was when Pete did it.

Turning into a Quook doesn't mean you have to talk out both sides of your beak.

Fair point. You're forgetting that behind this whole discussion is that the call was evidence that Cristo is a shitty coach. Someone said Pete did it too. Then someone said, yeah, but he learned from it, to which I pointed out that it was awfully late in his career to be learning those lessons. Just tit for tat shit.

As to what I actually believe? I like to play to win and I like being aggressive. It bites you in the ass once in a while, but in my estimation, playing not to lose costs you much more often and as a culture or style keeps you out of games unless you are just clearly physically better than the other team, which is harder to pull off in today's game. Short yardage handoff to the running back is not high risk. Passing is high risk.

I don't know who was available, though I guess we now know that Brooks-James was hurt, and he's light and easily stopped. #34, whatever his name, ran hard that night. You might question the freshman bit, but I don't think there was a Kani Benoit on the sideline to call into the game, and again, #34 had run very well that night ... run well and physical. If nobody told him two hands, etc. etc., then that was a mistake. Shit they may have told him and he may have just fucked it up anyway. Who knows.

Still say Duck fans should be generally happy with what they saw. I'm comparing it to the dumpster fire of last year and particularly the year before. But I'm a Jimmy Johnson fan and will take "let's build a physical running game" all day long.