The very fact that our game plan was to chew the clock and keep KU’s offense off

Nov 18, 2024
2:21:04pm

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the field is an indictment of our offense. We don’t have the confidence that we could out score them. The question is what is the biggest reason we can’t trust our offense?

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The very fact that our game plan was to chew the clock and keep KU’s offense off

NOCAL_YFAN

2:21pm

Or did we not trust our defense against Daniels and Neal?

RGGeemer

2:22pm

That wouldn't make sense. The defense had basically allowed 10 points.

bluecheese

2:28pm

Well yeah we know that now. We didn't know that before the game started and the

RGGeemer

2:29pm

I think you have that backwards.

reagan21

2:23pm

Not trusting your players is a bad sign.

DiamondDog

2:23pm

The gameplan is good as long as your offense can finish drives.

CougarTwins

2:25pm

If we would have scored a TD end of the first half it would have been

Zerigke Ally Zerigke

2:25pm

I think it’s the opposite, they were too confident on that last drive. They

Blew

2:26pm

That's silly. It's a great plan - they just forgot to score...

Eddie

2:27pm

The plan to waste time always sucks. I like watching football.

JAGA97

2:32pm

I think the actual plan was to win. I like winning.

Eddie

2:42pm

IMHO, we weren't going to beat KU

BYU71

2:32pm

The game plan was good enough to beat Kansas by 3 scores, which we would have without

Skeptical Optimist

2:33pm

I will take the thumbs down but

BYU71

2:35pm

Even with those mistakes, we were on the 11 yard line with a minute to go and 2 time outs

Skeptical Optimist

2:37pm

Huh? Giving the ball to the offense and telling them to get 4-5 yards per play isn't an indictment of the

Skeptical Optimist

2:32pm

Well, we didn't outscore them. Looks like our coaches were right.

IronPotato

2:32pm

The chewing clock strategy it to protect a defense, not the offense which has

Ghost of Peanut

2:34pm

3 Redzone trips with a total of 3 points, and giving them the ball at the 3 yard line were more than

Skeptical Optimist

2:38pm

It did a good job in taking the crowd out of the game.

Cosmodiar

2:43pm

Absolutely! Crowd had little energy after such long and unproductive drives.

Section31 Coug

3:30pm

It's a strategy used by mediocre and bad teams against superior opponents

CameronG

2:39pm

This is Kalani-ball. He learned it from Whitt-ball. This is our team now.

RGGeemer

2:41pm

If that's the case then we're looking at a ceiling of 3-4 loss seasons just like

CameronG

2:45pm

I hope we have fewer than 3 losses this year.

RGGeemer

3:30pm

I'm not going to say either way because people will accuse me of being too

CameronG

4:11pm

Don't know if I'd call it Kalani-ball. That drive in the 3rd q is the first

jwalk

3:35pm

Wrong.

RedSox

3:28pm

You can't be this daft.

RedSox

3:27pm

RE: You can't be this daft.

NOCAL_YFAN

3:32pm

It’s more like our offense has horrible 3rd down play calling and doesn’t set itself up for manageable 3rd downs

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