Showtime Joe 2.0
Active Member
I have read all of the post-game commentary on here with great interest but I'm only going to lodge one complaint of my own. And it's aimed directly at Sonny.
On our second-to-last offensive play yesterday, Chandler missed Savion on a short pass over the middle, thus bringing up fourth-and-nine from the Colorado 43-yard line. Although the clock was stopped after the third-down incompletion, we only had two timeouts left. Nine times out of ten (if not greater), when you turn the ball over on downs with less than a minute left in the game and only two timeouts left, you're not going to get the ball back.
Consequently, the game was really and truly on the line on that fourth-down play. As such, Sonny should have used one of our two timeouts at that point to calm Chandler down and make sure we had a surefire play to get the first down and keep our hopes alive. A first down there would've put us very close to field-goal range and we still would've had one timeout in our pocket with, as Hubie Brown would say, "plenty of time" to tie or win the game.
Using timeouts wisely --- especially during crunch-time --- is the duty of the head coach and the head coach alone. As we all know, Gary Patterson had some kind of congenital defect that frequently prevented him from using timeouts properly. I was expecting Sonny to do better in that regard but I'm afraid he failed us yesterday.
That is all.
On our second-to-last offensive play yesterday, Chandler missed Savion on a short pass over the middle, thus bringing up fourth-and-nine from the Colorado 43-yard line. Although the clock was stopped after the third-down incompletion, we only had two timeouts left. Nine times out of ten (if not greater), when you turn the ball over on downs with less than a minute left in the game and only two timeouts left, you're not going to get the ball back.
Consequently, the game was really and truly on the line on that fourth-down play. As such, Sonny should have used one of our two timeouts at that point to calm Chandler down and make sure we had a surefire play to get the first down and keep our hopes alive. A first down there would've put us very close to field-goal range and we still would've had one timeout in our pocket with, as Hubie Brown would say, "plenty of time" to tie or win the game.
Using timeouts wisely --- especially during crunch-time --- is the duty of the head coach and the head coach alone. As we all know, Gary Patterson had some kind of congenital defect that frequently prevented him from using timeouts properly. I was expecting Sonny to do better in that regard but I'm afraid he failed us yesterday.
That is all.
