FG was the right call

[U2Cane]

Mario is that yo

U know y, & I know y.

If this was Manny Diaz, on God he would be blasted. Like if we’re going to talk about it, let’s talk about it, but justifying this type of bull **** is mind numbing. If we had all 3 T.O’s “maybe” I can rationalize it, but again, if we were going to need to score a TD regardless, y not just try to score the TD? Cam was cooking on that drive, too. A FG literally does nothing for u besides take more time off the clock.

the point being missed here is that we should have kicked the 3 AND THEN GONE ONSIDE. if we get that, we get THE BALL. The onside is the element most of you are missing. Read the whole OP.

 

[Tinman64]

the point being missed here is that we should have kicked the 3 AND THEN GONE ONSIDE. if we get that, we get THE BALL. The onside is the element most of you are missing. Read the whole OP.

Onsides are pretty slim ….not to mention our special teams are worst in nation

 

[CBurrr93]

FG was the wrong call and he always plays to LOSE. As it stands it not only was a stupid call its laughable he thought the defense could stop them. Another thing he kicks the field goal and the right call is an onside kick. The guy is BRAIN DEAD! I guess it was the right call to play Sam Brown and take out Martinez too.

Agreed. At least with onside might have enough time to just hold them to 3. Even though I’m sure we wouldn’t have. Kicking was waiving the white flag. But analytics ya know

 

[Fort_Lauderdale954]

Not moving any goalposts. We used analytics all season and most of the time it worked in our favor and every close game we won we had analytics dictate favorable plays .... the Cal comeback alone had 2 or 3.

If we trust the offense to score at 4th & goal from the 9 and happen to tie the game doesn't the defense still have to get a stop with Syracuse having 3 minutes and 3 timeouts needing only a FG?

Syracuse murdered us all day passing so also by kicking the FG it essentially forced them to run instead of pass which should have been to our advantage. Of course we proceeded to give up the edge, get physically beat up-front, and commit a stupid penalty.

They need a new data analyst then if it told them kicking a fg down 7 with 3 min left against a team they couldn't stop at all was the right call

 

[U2Cane]

Onsides are pretty slim ….not to mention our special teams are worst in nation

Brother , i understand. But you have to coach the situation. It was a bad one with that defense but there were 3 options, not 2.

 

[Rellyrell]

the point being missed here is that we should have kicked the 3 AND THEN GONE ONSIDE. if we get that, we get THE BALL. The onside is the element most of you are missing. Read the whole OP.

I read ur OP, & just b/c u capitalized ur point doesn’t mean it makes any more sense.

 

[RVACane]

That field goal down 7 points with three minutes left deep in their territory when we couldn’t stop anyone all day anyhow made no sense to me at the time. We need a stop either way but even if we get the stop, we can’t win or tie with another field goal, we need a touchdown either way.