Cougs up 5 with under 4:00 to go

[LeachPack]

I’m looking at Donovan Ollie with a corner pressing him with no other DB in sight. Was it never a consideration to throw him the ball on first, second or third down? Are our outside receivers not able to get open 1 on 1?

 

[anon_1nb5kgc7kwlls]

nah just run it every time on 1st down every time for a 3 yard loss every time

 

[Coug90]

I’m looking at Donovan Ollie with a corner pressing him with no other DB in sight. Was it never a consideration to throw him the ball on first, second or third down? Are our outside receivers not able to get open 1 on 1?

The way Oregon’s moving the ball at that point and how much time is left you’ve basically got two options - run your regular aggressive offense ahead by 5 and string some first downs together and perhaps a game clinching score …OR run your regular aggressive offense down by 3 with a minute left. Everyone in the stadium knew if we went 3 and out there we were going to need another scoring drive. We should have stayed aggressive and played to win…when you play not to lose you usually do.

 

[chipdouglas]

After we went into prevent defense AND prevent offense, they obviously score right away after chunk yardage, we get the ball back, and we draw on 1st. The ultimate give-up play, and it's on first down. They also got to him almost concurrent with the handoff for a 3-yard loss. Then we stop the clock twice by throwing it? Either commit to burning clock by running all 3 downs, or put the pedal to the metal, but we called the worst possible sequence of events.

Got real strong Falcons/Patriots Super Bowl vibes from this one. Totally ignoring what got you to this point, forgetting the basics, and thinking you can actually ice the conference power, up a score and a half, in a 2-3 possession game.