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Post game: time to hit the panic button?

406football said:
We are in the middle of the pack on 3rd down conversions. Not great, but not terrible. The problem against EWU was we only had 53 offensive plays mostly due to poor 3rd down execution on offense. The defense was on the field literally the whole second half.
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Because they didn't get off the field on 3rd down.
 
HikeGlacier said:
No, we had fewer opportunities to score because our defense didn't get off the field. We could score in one play if we had the ball.
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Both contributed to the issues this past Saturday, when the offense had the ball we couldn't convert on 3rd down, and on Defense we allowed EWU to convert too many 3rd downs.
 
HikeGlacier said:
No, we had fewer opportunities to score because our defense didn't get off the field. We could score in one play if we had the ball.
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You are making it seem like EWU boat raced us all game long. Our offense completely sputtered in the 2nd half and left the defense out there the entire time and gave up only 10 points. You have no clue what you are evaluating. We had 23 offensive plays in the 2nd half, why didn't we have 23 touchdowns?
 
BWahlberg said:
I just don't see it - going plain to win a game by the grace of a fumbled spike seems way too risky for a coach that likes to be in control of everything / all the time.
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Oh I think it got away from him for sure, but I do think he was trying to manufacture a very vanilla win. It got away from them I think partially due to questionable calls on the staff's part. Pass on 2nd down when run wouldve bled the clock further, then a failed fake punt that gave them a short field.

We all love fake punts and mixing up the offense, I was shocked with those 2 choices in those moments. I was finally getting used to the fact we weren't actually going to boat race ewash and be satisfied with a 2 score win, then all of a sudden all hell broke loose. 😵🤨
 
nicktaber58 said:
Oh I think it got away from him for sure, but I do think he was trying to manufacture a very vanilla win. It got away from them I think partially due to questionable calls on the staff's part. Pass on 2nd down when run wouldve bled the clock further, then a failed fake punt that gave them a short field.

We all love fake punts and mixing up the offense, I was shocked with those 2 choices in those moments. I was finally getting used to the fact we weren't actually going to boat race ewash and be satisfied with a 2 score win, then all of a sudden all hell broke loose. 😵🤨
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do fake punts ever work when the upback takes the snap and runs straight up the middle? that one never seems to work, for any team.
 
406football said:
You are making it seem like EWU boat raced us all game long. Our offense completely sputtered in the 2nd half and left the defense out there the entire time and gave up only 10 points. You have no clue what you are evaluating. We had 23 offensive plays in the 2nd half, why didn't we have 23 touchdowns?
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because we have Bobby and Pease.
 
HikeGlacier said:
Or their defense got off the field on 3rd down.
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Sure, but since the Griz offense had the ball 7 times, you could say the Griz defense got off the field a few times and the Griz offense didn't score, how did you put it, "We could score in one play if we had the ball." on any of those 7 drives. You are such a cuck.
 
Returning to the team health issue. Gillman has had his fewest touches of the season in the last two games 12 and 13, roughly half of all touches for the team. In the biggest conference games of the season, Idaho and Sac, Gillman is 27 and 20.
 
406football said:
You are making it seem like EWU boat raced us all game long. Our offense completely sputtered in the 2nd half and left the defense out there the entire time and gave up only 10 points. You have no clue what you are evaluating. We had 23 offensive plays in the 2nd half, why didn't we have 23 touchdowns?
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You are 100 % correct. Griz defense in 2nd half had two INT's (which led to only TD in second half), forced 2 punts, stopped 2 4th down conversions and gave up a total of 10 points. Griz drives 2nd half. 3rd Quarter 3 plays 6 yards time 1:15, 3 plays 65 yds TD time 1:04 SET UP BY INT, 5 plays 23 yards time 2:29, 3 plays 7 yards time 1:15, 4th Quarter 3 plays 7 yards Time 1:19, 3 plays 3 yards time 1:29, 4 plays 6 yards time :20. There is now way you win many college football games when those are the lengths of your offensive possessions unless you are scoring quickly. Not saying the defense played great but when you are out there that much and you are beat up in secondary playing a bunch of young guys it is not as bad as it could have been.
 
UncleRico said:
You are 100 % correct. Griz defense in 2nd half had two INT's (which led to only TD in second half), forced 2 punts, stopped 2 4th down conversions and gave up a total of 10 points. Griz drives 2nd half. 3rd Quarter 3 plays 6 yards time 1:15, 3 plays 65 yds TD time 1:04 SET UP BY INT, 5 plays 23 yards time 2:29, 3 plays 7 yards time 1:15, 4th Quarter 3 plays 7 yards Time 1:19, 3 plays 3 yards time 1:29, 4 plays 6 yards time :20. There is now way you win many college football games when those are the lengths of your offensive possessions unless you are scoring quickly. Not saying the defense played great but when you are out there that much and you are beat up in secondary playing a bunch of young guys it is not as bad as it could have been.
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Our offensive inconsistency mirrors the inconsistency of our QB. He could not miss early on, then turned ice cold, missing targets. 3 and outs. Could not buy a 1st down. Reminded me of last year's UND game.
 
kemajic said:
Our offensive inconsistency mirrors the inconsistency of our QB. He could not miss early on, then turned ice cold, missing targets. 3 and outs. Could not buy a 1st down. Reminded me of last year's UND game.
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Kem, the offensive inconsistency wasn't because of the QB, it was a failure of the offense in general. They had 8 first down plays, all runs, for 15 yards. 8 of those were on one run.
 
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