Fitting it ends on an offsides penalty. I genuinely don't know why defenses jump on 4th and short in situations like that where it's an obvious bait for the penalty
I was sort of half-heartedly rooting for Bama, but I didn't feel great about it. I am particularly NOT looking forward to the fans of two-loss Alabama whining that they deserve to be in the playoff against whatever one-loss conference champ beats them out.
Exactly. I guess they don’t want the stress of being on offense without timeouts, but you have multiple clock management tools on offense, from clocking the ball, to throwing past the sticks, to getting out of bounds, to simply doing shit quickly. They’re there, and the more time you have, the less you will need to rely on them.
You have almost no legitimate equivalents on defense. Every single timeout you use against a team playing four-minute offense saves you 39 seconds of game clock. I’d say that it’s always worthwhile to burn two, and it’s only going to be rarely that keeping the final TO is worth that much time.
That was a bad case of swallowing the whistle to wait for review. Looked pretty to be pretty clearly an incomplete.
Somebody could have got hurt in the scramble.
Been streaming my reptile teams against FCS competition to make sure I can feel safe putting down the denatured alcohol for a week. Looks like both are doing okay.
Really weird 4th down play. Totally botched it, but our RB was totally on the ball when he saw it. Refs on the field called it wrong but it was obvious from the footage the ball was a free for all