So you think they tell the QB's to not throw it and take the loss? Did Dungey, Mahoney Welch do that as well? Honest questions. Not trying to dispute just want to know what others see.
No tape?
So I just finally watched the last two plays of the game. What I saw was a player with absolutely no situation awareness. To me this is more on the player than the coaching. 1st on third down he ran around doing loops and chasing his tail for 10 seconds before taking a sack. On 4th down he had a brain fart they would have blown out Kevlar underpants. While the coaching has been questionable all year, this is on Rex. Every program runs and practices the 2 minute drill, goal line every day. I couldn’t tell you how often it’s emphasized to not take a sack and throw the ball away. This is simply a player who stuff the bed. You can see it in his face, he had no idea it was 4th down.
I don't have a dog in this particular debate, but I am wondering about how much time is spent in practice going over situational awareness and concepts, going over rules on grounding/throwing the ball away, how to stop the clock (or keep it running), and running offense against the clock. There was a TO after the 1st down run. As you know, after getting the play called every staff at every level is going to hammer situational awareness during most of the TO.
The opposite. They don't drill into them that instead of stepping out of bounds and taking a loss, just throw it out of bounds. Bad enough that Tommy was doing it. The fact that Rex is now doing it too says to me that the coaches are ignoring it.
Absolutely. Coaching has been an issue all year and 4 of the last 5 years but that was on Rex in that situation. People want to tie all their emotions on those two plays because of their frustration with Dino. Not denying he has poor management and poor development but I also judge the situation. He had a 1-8 team in position to beat a team with 7 ACC wins. I saw a staff trying to taper plays that allowed an extremely limited QB to have some success. I saw a defensive staff make great calls while the defenders played their ass off. This team could have quit after the Liberty game. That's what young players do but they didn't quit. The game plan worked most of the game but the last 4 plays were ugly. Its a totally different type of pressure when executing plays in that situation. You can stay poised or you can panic. Feel sorry for the kid.
Ok gotcha
Rex should be our 4th or 5th QB. Poor recruiting and development has pushed him up. 5th string QB's that have never been in those situations before tend to panic.
Yes we had the wind behind us in the 3rd quarter with a couple of strong gusts.
