4th and 1

bpjacket said:
I think you might be right. Josh used to take the short yardage plays himself.
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Yeah, what JT lacks in size, he makes up for in speed and throwing ability. We need someone with Josh's size, but JT's throwing ability. That may be Lucas Johnson. How's Matthew Jordan's passing ability though?
 
I hated the call to go for it. Punt the ball, play D, get to OT. I said so before the play and I will say right now with that amount of time on the clock, I would have to be beyond my 45 to consider going for it on 4th and 1. Sometimes it might work, but it is not smart football.
 
I would have punted it there. Given the field position and time left. I do understand the gamble to.
 
I would have punted and watched Pitt drive 40 or 50 yards for the winning FG. At least that would have been the safe, no balls decision. Sike, I would have went for it knowing I have more faith in getting one yard than my D rushing 3 at the QB and stopping him.
 
TechRush said:
I would have punted and watched Pitt drive 40 or 50 yards for the winning FG. At least that would have been the safe, no balls decision. Sike, I would have went for it knowing I have more faith in getting one yard than my D rushing 3 at the QB and stopping him.
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Shouldn't you only go for it because you have confidence you can march down the field and score to win outright?

Going for it because there is no faith in the D is an entirely different issue.
 
Typically when on the road you go for the win. That's football 101. Gain just one damn yard and we likely kick for a win.

Right decision to go for it, but wrong play call (IMHO). Our D today showed little possibility to have held them had we'd punted.
 
rosebud said:
Meh.. He'd be a genius if they would have made it.
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Paul said this last game re: the 4th and 2 that was incomplete in the end zone. But at some point the buck has to stop with him.

Time to put up or shut up.
 
JRJacket said:
Stop being such an asswipe. trashing the guy who gave you the only elite bowl victory in 20 years.
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Clearly JT was the only reason we won the orange bowl. Lol. It's becoming clearer and clearer that those other players on the 2014 team elevated JT's play.... not the other way around.
 
ForsythJacket said:
Typically when on the road you go for the win. That's football 101. Gain just one damn yard and we likely kick for a win.

Right decision to go for it, but wrong play call (IMHO). Our D today showed little possibility to have held them had we'd punted.
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Likely kick for win? Still had to gain at least another 30 yards to have a chance at a kick.
 
77GTFan said:
I hated the call to go for it. Punt the ball, play D, get to OT. I said so before the play and I will say right now with that amount of time on the clock, I would have to be beyond my 45 to consider going for it on 4th and 1. Sometimes it might work, but it is not smart football.
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It took them one and a half minutes to go 75 yards the previous time they had the ball, and even if we got them into OT we still would have had to stop them there, which I think we only did once or twice all day. I was fine with the decision to go for it.
 
Thomsonjacket said:
I would have punted it there. Given the field position and time left. I do understand the gamble to.
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In their final drive they moved the ball with ease and we knew all they were going to do was run it. No way we would have stopped them.

PLUS. The thing no one is talking about is that we may have the worst punter in P5 football. How stupid would PJ have looked if our punter had come in and boomed out one of his signature 15 yard punts!? No guarantee that a punt would have flipped the field.

If you ask me, I think the probability of having a WTF play by our punter was higher than Mills not gaining 1 yard.
 
What people don't understand is Roof would have employed his leaky roof prevent defense which only prevents Tech from winning.
 
GTMensLax&SoccerD1Soon! said:
In their final drive they moved the ball with ease and we knew all they were going to do was run it. No way we would have stopped them.

PLUS. The thing no one is talking about is that we may have the worst punter in P5 football. How stupid would PJ have looked if our punter had come in and boomed out one of his signature 15 yard punts!? No guarantee that a punt would have flipped the field.

If you ask me, I think the probability of having a WTF play by our punter was higher than Mills not gaining 1 yard.
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Do punters get recruited? Or do they just walk on? From the soccer team?

Just asking...., why can't we have a punter who can reliably kick one 40 yds?

Is it the calculus book in the hands of the Auburn recruiter?

How many punters are available to be recruited from HS that can kick one 40 yds every time ?
 
It was simply a bad call, bad decision. I agree we should be able to get 1, but when the cost of not getting 1 is the ballgame, and the alternative is at least a coin flip chance to go to OT, you've gotta punt.

The benefit of getting 1 yard is that, WOW, you've got 1st and 10 on your own 35. It's not as though picking up the first down wins the game. The risk/reward is not there for me at my own 35. Anywhere on their side of the field, fine with me.
 
We did it against Wake Forest in 2009 as well.

It was an attempt by CPJ to get the team to buy in and believe in themselves and the offense. Because that is what is needed. Total team buy-in. It didn't work. We don't have the belief on offense.
 
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