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[QUOTE="SU94, post: 5256775, member: 202"]
Everyone seems to be placing this entirely at the feet of the HC. I am not as sure.

I think everything was going well, as the HC eluded to: "To me it's -- I think we handled it the right way, I do believe that you just rerack the play, get it in bounds and call timeout, and that's why we held it and didn't work out the way we wanted it to."

He's telling the media/fans -- [B][U]without telling them[/U][/B] -- that things were progressing as they should have been (more than likely a throw underneath for 7-10 yards) UNTIL the QB (he's young and inexperienced) thought he had to change the play to go deep (score the TD), most likely because he lost track that they had another TO.

What Eberflus should have done when he saw Caleb changing the play was bang the TO right there, maybe with 11 or 12 seconds left. That was really his only coaching botch: trusting a 23yo QB making his 12th NFL start to make the right call.

For me, this was 75% on the QB for not having situational awareness (how many time outs, what they need to accomplish, etc.) required in the moment. And for that, the HC and his 25% has to eat it.
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