Worst play call ever?

beej67 said:
Stop being a dumbass.
You were probably bitching
That's a total crock.
I suck as a poster

beej67
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All of your posts just represent my 2nd post. I appreciate your input, I asked for it, but why are you talking to me like I am a Georgia fan? Talk to me like a Tech fan and give me input, not input from a 20 year old girl on her period. Thanks.
 
GTfanNBama said:
bingo! Go back and look at the play (ramblingamblin), the two recievers on that side completely fanned on their blocks, Bebe missed the backer who tackled 'Shard for the loss, but even if he would have made his block, Johnson(i think, could be Smith) missed Tribble who came flying in as well. Wasn't the play call, it was the lack of execution.
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I will BINGO your BINGO. Good play call, bad execution...Mike
 
All of your posts just represent my 2nd post. I appreciate your input, I asked for it, but why are you talking to me like I am a Georgia fan? Talk to me like a Tech fan and give me input, not input from a 20 year old girl on her period. Thanks.
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Here's what I responded to:

This might have been said already, but what was the deal with the play called on 3 and about 4 on our first drive I believe. We were I would say in fg range and we ran a freaking swing pass and t. choice lost 8 yds. or so. Why did they run that. Why not run a play that does not have a chance of losing yardage and at least getting a fg early in the game?
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Reread what you wrote. It's really quite silly. "Why did they run the lose 8 yards play?" Clearly because it wasn't designed to lose 8 yards.
 
BJ, why waste your breath? Anyone who would describe that call as the "worst call ever" clearly just doesn't get it, and it is unlikely they will by arguing with them. I'm just saying...Mike
 
Play calling is a lot like a very very complicated game of rock-paper-scissor.

No one play is guaranteed to work, and there is a defense that can stop any play. I pick a play, you pick a defense, we run the play, and the players execute. Assuming all players on both sides are of equal talent and execute properly, a play's success comes down to whether they picked the right defense to stop it.

We called rock, they threw paper. It's exceedingly dumb to go on the internet on monday and post a thread titled "IS ROCK THE WORST PLAYCALL EVER?"

There's no doubt BC called a defense that worked against our offense during that sequence, but saying that swing passes are worthless on 3rd and 4 is foolish.
 
Great post beej, I just think that running a swing pass that starts off with a player catching the ball behind the line of scrimmage with a redshirt freshman receiver blocking in front of him was not the best decision. I just thought that running a play that doesnt consist of a player catching the ball 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage would have been better.
 
ramblingamblin said:
Great post beej, I just think that running a swing pass that starts off with a player catching the ball behind the line of scrimmage with a redshirt freshman receiver blocking in front of him was not the best decision. I just thought that running a play that doesnt consist of a player catching the ball 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage would have been better.
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Need I remind you that hindsight is always 20/20?

Please keep that in mind when questioning playcalling.

Remember, the plays that don't work can always be second-guessed...Mike
 
Great post beej, I just think that running a swing pass that starts off with a player catching the ball behind the line of scrimmage with a redshirt freshman receiver blocking in front of him was not the best decision.
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To date, our receivers had blocked very well. Whether or not the play was predictable or not is a very valid debate. I know I didn't predict it, because I was expecting us to run behind a line I thought was pretty good. I know ND didn't predict it when we took a very similar play for 20 yds vs them. I also know it's very easy to predict a play on Monday. :)

Now I can't make any really firm calls about what sorts of D they were running, because I was drunk in a bar. But it looked to me like most of the game BC played containment on the line, had one guy spy Choice, and played Cover-1. Against that, screens might work better than swings, if we can get a hat on the spy, but we didn't know their defensive tendencies first drive. Furthermore, a middle screen on 3rd and 4 in a rushing situation isn't a great call, because lots of pretty standard "stop them from running 4 yards" defenses would flush it out. So the high percentage pass play for 4 yards, not counting on a RB spy, is the swing pass.

I was disappointed we didn't line Cox up at QB vs that D, with Taylor and Choice wide to either side, because it would pull the spy to the sideline. I suspect we didn't because their safties are both very strong, and we didn't think Cox was a good interior mismatch. But hey, what do I know? :)
 
The idea that someone could watch this game and get concerned about calling a swing pass on 3rd and 4 is kind of surreal.
 
beej67 said:
beej67,
realizes that plays aren't designed to lose yards, and if that makes me sound like a girl to you, then so be it, dipwad.
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Your realization that plays are not designed with the purpose to lose yards DOES NOT make you sound like a girl...

Your custom, wacky "sigs"...well, that's another story.
 
beej67 said:
We called rock, they threw paper. It's exceedingly dumb to go on the internet on monday and post a thread titled "IS ROCK THE WORST PLAYCALL EVER?"
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Yes, but WHY DIDN'T WE CALL SCISSORS?!?!!???

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I GOT A ROCK!

Rock Paper Scissors World Championships
 
mm42 said:
The idea that someone could watch this game and get concerned about calling a swing pass on 3rd and 4 is kind of surreal.
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You cant tell me that play didnt set the tone for the whole game. We had our best drive and were on the 33 yd. line then lost 7 yds. We didnt even make it into BC territory for the rest of the first half. That is how I got concerned with the play call.
 
So if the receivers had actually blocked somebody what would you have thought. I will admit that between the WR problem on the play and what seemed like an eternity for Taylor to get the ball out there the play was doomed. But I don't think it was necessarily the call.

Besides, I don't buy one play setting the tone for the whole game, especially when it was that early. Any number of other plays would have reversed the "tone" you felt.
 
ramblingamblin said:
You cant tell me that play didnt set the tone for the whole game. We had our best drive and were on the 33 yd. line then lost 7 yds. We didnt even make it into BC territory for the rest of the first half. That is how I got concerned with the play call.
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Oh, if I'm going to pick a "tone for the game" play, it's going to be the one where Ryan hit a receiver parked 15 yards downfield by the sideline, when we had NOBODY REMOTELY NEAR HIM, and he ran down the field for a 60 YARD GAIN.

lol.

There's definitely some confusion about "bad playcalls" and "wrong playcalls" going on here. If I call Rock and they call Paper, that doesn't mean Rock was a bad playcall, it just means it was the wrong one vs Paper. Swing pass was clearly the wrong playcall if we knew they were going to throw paper, but since we didn't know they were going to throw paper, it wasn't "wrong" when Bond called it, just wrong after we lost 8 yards.


beej67,
throws more than paper
 
beej67 said:
If I call Rock and they call Paper, that doesn't mean Rock was a bad playcall, it just means it was the wrong one vs Paper.
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So true, and yet still I want to know WHY DIDN'T WE CALL SCISSORS???!?!?!!!???
 
RALPH FREIDGEN WOULD HAVE CALLED SCISSORS!

FIRE CHAN GAILEY!



beej67,
smiling
 
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