45 seconds is an eternity in a goal to go sutuation with no timeouts

[Don]

I had no issue with the running play, In fact its hard to pass from that far away the defense can take away short passes and longer passes like fades. On a normal team with even a mediocre line its ok to run there maybe you get to the 4 or 5 yard line which opens up more of the field for slants and quick outs or even the QB takes off and runs if the defense follows the receivers that can get you close or even in the end zone. The run even made the defense call a timeout to reset, Its what happened after the timeout that was terrible. The first play after that has to go to the and zone and it needs to be quick. there is no real defense of the last two plays or non plays if you call the spike a play.

I will say this for 59 and a half minutes Rex did everything you want a backup QB to do , no turnovers, made some plays in the passing game , marched the team to a goal to go in the last possession giving his team a chance to win. All that without a single drop of help from the running game.

Rex didnt with the game yesterday but he dam sure didnt lose it.

 

[Chip]

I had no issue with the running play, In fact its hard to pass from that far away the defense can take away short passes and longer passes like fades. On a normal team with even a mediocre line its ok to run there maybe you get to the 4 or 5 yard line which opens up more of the field for slants and quick outs or even the QB takes off and runs if the defense follows the receivers that can get you close or even in the end zone. The run even made the defense call a timeout to reset, Its what happened after the timeout that was terrible. The first play after that has to go to the and zone and it needs to be quick. there is no real defense of the last two plays or non plays if you call the spike a play.

I will say this for 59 and a half minutes Rex did everything you want a backup QB to do , no turnovers, made some plays in the passing game , marched the team to a goal to go in the last possession giving his team a chance to win. All that without a single drop of help from the running game.

Rex didnt with the game yesterday but he dam sure didnt lose it.

The running play wasn't a big concern since they were only playing 3 on the line and backing everyone up.

But THREE times on that drive, we needed to heave the ball out of bounds for the most productive play. Once Rex just ran out of bounds and took a loss of 4. Once he threw it right into the arms of a DL and got lucky. And once he ran back into the middle after wasting too much time and then took a sack.

We don't know what the coaches are telling him so we can't speculate if he just wasn't listening, or the coaches didn't make it CLEAR what could and couldn't happen.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

The run in of itself is not an issue. Not be prepared for the next play is a gigantic issue. The refs blew the play dead at 42 seconds. NC State took the TO with 30 seconds. We were still waiting for a play from the sideline. Why waste all that time? Maybe if we had 5 of those 12 seconds back Rex doesn't get frazzled and spike the ball.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

The run in of itself is not an issue. Not be prepared for the next play is a gigantic issue. The refs blew the play dead at 42 seconds. NC State took the TO with 30 seconds. We were still waiting for a play from the sideline. Why waste all that time? Maybe if we had 5 of those 12 seconds back Rex doesn't get frazzled and spike the ball.

Yeah, the run only makes sense if you know exactly what comes after.