No coach would send your Qb on the sideline into the game with 32 seconds to go without the 2nd play

This will be the last time I comment on this. There was no second play, because the second play is a no brainer. Clock it. The "second play" depends TOTALLY on what happens with the first play. It may have been a situation where they need to send Lee and a bunch of receivers in, had play #1 been a big loss. THERE WAS NO SECOND PLAY!!

 

You are right, JJ was not given a second play. According to Coach Stud, Crowton sent JJ in with one play. If the run failed, Crowton was to send in a pass play. There was no mention of spiking the ball to stop the clock. The intention was to take two more shots at the endzone. They had enough time but Crowton got too cute again and all the players were confused as to what the second play was, substitutions became chaos. Hebert saved the day by just snapping the ball to give a chance that something good might happen.

 

They would have only had one more shot. It was third down. There were nearly 30 seconds on the clock when Jefferson was tackled. That's plenty of time to run two more plays. The next play needed to be a throw into the endzone. Should have run a sprint out, so Jefferson could throw the ball away without risk of intentional grounding if nobody is open. Better yet, just leave Lee in the game and hand off to Ridley on second down, so you have Lee's arm in the game for third down. They had plenty of time to exhaust their downs without having to waste one.

 

See that's were I have a VERY big problem.

WTF is CGC doing taking JL out of the game? First play is a run that Ridley could have done, and you want to give JJ the ball in a PASS situation with the game on the line?

 

He's in love with options and misdirections. Look at the ridiculous play they ran on first down the previous time they got down near the endzone. He seems to think the defense won't be able to react to what he's drawn up, but most of the time the formation and personnel give everything away. Who didn't know Jefferson was going to run (or option) the ball?

They had first and goal from the 2 with :36 to play. Plenty of time for two passes and a run before fourth down (third down has to be a pass to stop the clock and settle things down before fourth down). Pass-run-pass would have left them at least :10 (the first down pass took just :04). It was completely obvious that they had no plan. They were just running one play at a time on the fly, which led to the keystone kops routine. Once everything went awry, they needed to get to the line and clock the ball, but apparently, none of them can think quickly enough to figure that out. Totaly inexcusable.

If they had wanted Jefferson to clock the ball after the failed rush, they wouldn't have been trying to make mass personnel changes. That episode was entirely on the coaches (again). I've never seen a staff more inept at clock management. They are in a class by themselves in that regard, and that's not an exaggeration.

 

2 good observations. We do give away the play by the formation and personnel most of the time. If we are going to do that, why not put in Sheppard to take the direct snap and run. Everybody, knows Jefferson is going to run, so you've already lost the element of surprise. You might as well put in your best runner. You second point is also painfully true. These guys are about the worst I've ever seen at clock management.

 

Corrrect. JJ was confused because he wasn't given really good instructions on the sideline. He should have been given at least 2 plays - the option play he ran and the "if necessary" play that we ended up needing.

Instead, with the clock ticking, our coaches decide to get cute. They were going to try and get 2 more plays instead of a "clock-it" and then the 4th and goal play with Ridley to win the game.

So our coaches sent a totally different personell package in the game while the clock was ticking. They were gonna try a quick pass on 3rd down (which would have stopped the clock or scored we hope) and then the 4th and goal play.

And JJ wasn't ready for any of it, because he wasn't properly coached through it.