The end of the 1st half drive symbolized the Offense

[orangepassion]

Ill-prepared-Hunt isn't good enough to overcome Mcdonald and Mcdonald isn't good enough to overcome Hunt. How does Hunt not know and/or not be told going into that drive that there's no timeouts left? How does he not know/no one tell him that you can't spike the the ball with 2 seconds left? I don't totally blane Hunt or Mcdonald, but between the 2 of them and Lewis dropping 2 TD passes, we are inventing new ways to stink on Offense.

 

[CU44SE]

I would say that drive symbolizes the coaches, not just the offense. Using timeouts at will, coming into a new quarter and then you leave yourself with no timeouts for the end of the half. And then thats not communicated to the players and the players don't understand that. Throwing the ball 5 yards with 50 seconds left that obviously doesn't get a first down and then running 15 seconds off the clock before the next snap and then trying to clock the ball with 2 seconds left when you need 3 to run 2 plays. Just an absolute mess and it falls on both the coaches and players.

 

[Chris02M]

Ill-prepared-Hunt isn't good enough to overcome Mcdonald and Mcdonald isn't good enough to overcome Hunt. How does Hunt not know and/or not be told going into that drive that there's no timeouts left? How does he not know/no one tell him that you can't spike the the ball with 2 seconds left? I don't totally blane Hunt or Mcdonald, but between the 2 of them and Lewis dropping 2 TD passes, we could inventing new ways to stink on Offense.

I didn't know you cant spike it with less than 3 seconds left. The no timeouts thing is right and why throw a 5 yard pass on first play

 

[TexanMark]

Truthfully I learned that too (need 3 secs)...but the coaches sure as should know that.

 

[Chip]

I didn't know you cant spike it with less than 3 seconds left. The no timeouts thing is right and why throw a 5 yard pass on first play

I didn't know it either, but that doesn't mean the coaches should be learning right along with us.

Let's just hope it doesn't happen again, or we really have problems.

 

[orange79]

Truthfully I learned that too (need 3 secs)...but the coaches sure as should know that.

Yup - I didn't know that either, but then again, I'm not paid to know that. The coaching staff is...

 

[Toga]

I would say that drive symbolizes the coaches, not just the offense. Using timeouts at will, coming into a new quarter and then you leave yourself with no timeouts for the end of the half. And then thats not communicated to the players and the players don't understand that. Throwing the ball 5 yards with 50 seconds left that obviously doesn't get a first down and then running 15 seconds off the clock before the next snap and then trying to clock the ball with 2 seconds left when you need 3 to run 2 plays. Just an absolute mess and it falls on both the coaches and players.

Well there's that.

 

[Crusty]

Using timeouts at will, coming into a new quarter and then you leave yourself with no timeouts for the end of the half.

I thought it was just me. Drives me nuts that Shafer seems to waste more timeouts than any coach we have had. He never seems to save anything for the end. He did it in the Pitt game last year as I recall as well.

FHCDM was no time clock genius but Shafer is really learning the hard way.

 

[orangepassion]

It's a new rule this year