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[OUnabomber]

Pretty good article. The reason none of us should have felt any comfort with a 17 point lead I guess

http://newsok.com/rose-bowl-not-the-first-big-lead-ou-has-blown/article/5578010

 

[8085sooner]

At halftime I posted about the same thing on the Hoopla board game thread.

 

[anon_5z68cgtvj4ggn]

4th and 1 from the 16 in overtime this was the call

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article44176974.html

Would have been an easy conversion with the rule of being able to aid and push the qb. Every team should have this in the playbook.

 

[JConXtsy]

4th and 1 from the 16 in overtime this was the call

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article44176974.html

Would have been an easy conversion with the rule of being able to aid and push the qb. Every team should have this in the playbook.

Any call on 4th and 1 besides a field goal would have made more sense.
Their kicker already hit a 55 yarder that afternoon. That's a kick from the 38 yard line. OT starts at the 25. Only a touchdown was going to win an overtime battle that day. The defense had finally made a "stop" by holding Georgia to a field goal. The next choice was, and only was, to score a touchdown. 4th and 1 with our offense seems like a no-brainer when you have no trust in the defense.

 

[OUnabomber]

Any call on 4th and 1 besides a field goal would have made more sense.
Their kicker already hit a 55 yarder that afternoon. That's a kick from the 38 yard line. OT starts at the 25. Only a touchdown was going to win an overtime battle that day. The defense had finally made a "stop" by holding Georgia to a field goal. The next choice was, and only was, to score a touchdown. 4th and 1 with our offense seems like a no-brainer when you have no trust in the defense.

Did anyone really have any confidence that Seibert would even make a chip shot under that kinda pressure? I have no faith in that guy whatsoever. I told myself this is either gonna get blocked or he'll miss it. I have to say I think Bob would have went for it

 

[BillyRay]

Any call on 4th and 1 besides a field goal would have made more sense.
Their kicker already hit a 55 yarder that afternoon. That's a kick from the 38 yard line. OT starts at the 25. Only a touchdown was going to win an overtime battle that day. The defense had finally made a "stop" by holding Georgia to a field goal. The next choice was, and only was, to score a touchdown. 4th and 1 with our offense seems like a no-brainer when you have no trust in the defense.

I dunno man. If Riley doesn't kick that FG to tie it back up, then fails to get the 1st down he would be getting eaten alive by OU fans. I just wasn't impressed with the play calls prior to that. You KNOW a TD wins the game at that point, and ZERO attempts were made to the end zone. All 3 running plays that ended up with that HORRIBLE handoff to Smallwood to the short side of the field. That one Georgia LB came in untouched and blew that play up. Words cannot describe how just god awful that play call was. Just unbelievable.

 

[Salt City Sooner]

Did anyone really have any confidence that Seibert would even make a chip shot under that kinda pressure? I have no faith in that guy whatsoever. I told myself this is either gonna get blocked or he'll miss it. I have to say I think Bob would have went for it

Seibert in 2016? No. Seibert in 2017? Absolutely; he had a damn fine year (17-20 FG's coming into the game & one of those misses was due to a call by Riley which resulted in a low snap vs. tOSU throwing off the timing of the play; he also didn't miss a PAT all year long). Getting that kick blocked was a line issue, not a Seibert issue.

 

[OUnabomber]

Seibert in 2016? No. Seibert in 2017? Absolutely; he had a damn fine year (17-20 FG's coming into the game & one of those misses was due to a call by Riley which resulted in a low snap vs. tOSU throwing off the timing of the play; he also didn't miss a PAT all year long). Getting that kick blocked was a line issue, not a Seibert issue.

Seibert had a terrible squib and two punts under 30 yards at critical moments. Like I said.... I just don't have confidence in him in moments like that

 

[JConXtsy]

kicks vs punts.

We did need a real punter. I really don't know. How many great college kickers have done kicks, kick offs, and punts? I doubt many.

 

[Salt City Sooner]

Seibert had a terrible squib and two punts under 30 yards at critical moments. Like I said.... I just don't have confidence in him in moments like that

I was talking about FG's specifically. Heck, he'd just hit one in the first OT (that was longer than the one that got blocked) with OU down 3 just to get it to double OT in the first place, & FWIW, I agree with you that that was a bad squib, but I also have to partially blame Riley (or Boulware, whoever called for it) for calling for it in the first place. Either let him kick it out the back of the end zone like he's done all year long, or kick it out of bounds. If you squib it, you've basically got a pinball & 11 potential bumpers, which puts the unpredictability factor through the roof as opposed to the other 2 scenario's.

 

[OUnabomber]

I was talking about FG's specifically. Heck, he'd just hit one in the first OT (that was longer than the one that got blocked) with OU down 3 just to get it to double OT in the first place, & FWIW, I agree with you that that was a bad squib, but I also have to partially blame Riley (or Boulware, whoever called for it) for calling for it in the first place. Either let him kick it out the back of the end zone like he's done all year long, or kick it out of bounds. If you squib it, you've basically got a pinball & 11 potential bumpers, which puts the unpredictability factor through the roof as opposed to the other 2 scenario's.

He also had two horrible punts in crunch time. Maybe its just the fact that I don't trust kickers in general. I'd much rather take me chances on 4th and 1 with our offense............but oh well whats done is done