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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 315186, member: 297"]
Nice job, Nova.
 
A couple of rebuttals to your points.
 
3. We didn't have a Mike Williams to run a bunch formation with. We can agree to disagree on philosophical grounds though on this one. Given our personnel I think a bunch formation was the worst thing we could have possibly used in most cases. Let's take our guys that already aren't burners or block particularly well and make them easy pickings for a defense by putting them all in one place.
 
5. Fair points on 5, and I definitely exaggerated. When I watch other teams execute their offense they all seem to play faster than we are. I figure the strategic reason for that is to keep the defense on their heels. It is a lot easier said than done to play fast. That said, I would have emphasized that from the start. We seem to play slow by design in the interests of ball control. I just don't think that's the way to win.
 
6. Part of my thought is that if we're playing faster and spread out more we get more snaps in general so those guys will have more opportunities to make plays. Part of my frustration last year is that we kept hearing how the staff's objective was to establish the run. When I watch other teams I see a concerted effort to utilize playmakers in the passing game. I'm not as convinced that we decide to do that yet.
 
7. Well, yeah, I exaggerated again. But where I differ from a lot of people is that I feel when it's OT and you're on the 6 inch line it is the right call every time to go for the TD, [I]regardless of the outcome[/I]. I don't know how it would have turned out, you're right. I do know it was the wrong call, regardless of the outcome, and going for it would have been the right call, regardless of outcome.
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