Request: Is anyone willing to break down the 2nd half offensive possessions (specifically the play calling).

Everyone is complaining about going too conservative. From my perspective, they went conservative once they were in FG range and a FG would make it a 3 possession game? That seemed like a defensible decision.

Then in the final offensive possession they ran the ball to try to drain the clock which is defensible too

All the other possessions I was paying very close attention and ARod was calling 2 pass plays for every 1 run play. That does not seem like he was rolling over and giving up. A lot of those pass plays ended up with dump off throws or a throw out of bounds, but that's because our WRs down field were covered. That doesn't mean it's a conservative play call...it means our dudes weren't open.

I'm not sure I buy the "BYU went too conservative" complaints. It seemed like the bigger story is that our OL got injured and couldn't snap the ball well, couldn't run block, and were shakey in pass protection...all after our OL injuries occurred. So the plays were not as effective. So it seemed more to do with execution than "too conservative playcalling".

There's a difference. ARod could call a super aggressive deep route passing play, but Jake dumps it off to the RB because no one is open, then CB whines about conservative playcalling