Let Iowa Score?
November 13th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 1:58 PM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 3:16 AM ^
Offense could not move the ball all night. Gotta play defense.
Ugh.
November 13th, 2016 at 1:31 AM ^
Still a better chance of them missing the field goal than having to march down and score a TD...those were scarce all night.
November 13th, 2016 at 1:37 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 1:42 AM ^
Hindsight is 20/20. I'd take the chances of them missing a 40 yard field goal over having to score a TD to win.
November 13th, 2016 at 1:47 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 3:29 PM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 1:39 AM ^
At the very least, it makes no sense not to stop the clock with that extra timeout. Make them kick the fg with a minute to go so you at least know if you have to score or not.
November 13th, 2016 at 1:56 AM ^
It was a first down... Timeout was irrelevant at that point. D didn't get them to three and out
November 13th, 2016 at 2:13 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 2:01 AM ^
Are you suggesting we turtle, let them score like a bunch of pussies and then do something we haven't done at all in the second half and march purposefully down the field with probably less than a minute on the clock? Don Brown and/or Harbaugh aren't going to let them do that.
Also our D had a chance with 3 TOs in their last possesion to stop them at the top end of their kicker's range to atleast make it a challenging FG. That didn't happen obviously but they didn't really get into the redzone until Beathard dove for it. Letting a team score willingly outside the 20 is bullshit and makes us look fucking pathetic. Either stop someone or die trying.
November 13th, 2016 at 2:05 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 2:04 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 2:07 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 2:08 AM ^
If we'd gotten the stop on third down we would have used the last time out and forced them to kick with 30+ seconds left on the clock. There was literally no point when letting them score was the only way to get the ball back.
November 13th, 2016 at 2:08 AM ^
Maybe not give up a QB draw to make a field goal pretty much a given.
Maybe not giving up rushing yards to a completey braindead offense that can't even throw.
November 13th, 2016 at 3:21 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 8:11 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 2:23 AM ^
I think our best shot was a missed field goal. It was a terrible punt to put them there and then a bad call. We probably should have been less conservative when we had the ball. All we needed was a first down.
November 13th, 2016 at 2:29 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 2:41 AM ^
But that was much better Iowa team. We lost an average Iowa team with an overall weak defense.
November 13th, 2016 at 7:49 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 8:09 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 9:21 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 10:50 AM ^
Dude just shutup. They played their best game of the year and Michigan played obviously their worst. That Iowa crowd and their screaming is enough to make you go insane and not do anything productive. I was there in 2013 when Ruduck was their QB and it was 0 degrees. That same fan base was happier than hogs in shit and I couldn't feel my feet for 3 hours. You tell me that ins't a bunch of inbred loonies who burn a steady diet of field corn in the tank. Loud noise aimed directly at your ear holes in a helmet is impossible to overcome. Not many of us can attest to what that team faced lastnight.
November 13th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^
The dude did not call them the '72 Dolphins. The dude said they are not crap.
November 13th, 2016 at 2:43 AM ^
My TiVo and the superimposed 1st down marker indicate that Iowa got an extremely favorable spot on the 3rd and 7 with 30 seconds left. My take is that we should have challenged the line to gain. If the refs take back the phantom 1.5 yards from the spot then we force Iowa to kick the field goal with 30 seconds left on the clock. Not a ton of time to work with, but better than the walk off they ended up with.
November 13th, 2016 at 2:52 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^
That is only an option when you have already let them inside the 10 and have an offense that has proven it can move the ball
I have seen it work but mostly in the NFL and with Brady/Belichek. Obviously not the same with our 18-22 year olds.
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November 13th, 2016 at 5:32 AM ^
Instead let's challenge a meaningless play up 30+ against Illinois and then be made as hell about it.
The fact that we have a closer eye on a meaningless play like that against Illinois than on a crucial 3rd down play in this game is pretty damn dumb.
November 13th, 2016 at 6:58 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 7:19 AM ^
I guess that shoots down my genius point.
Replay seems to be able to buzz down and review every single iffy play regarding Michigan though.
November 13th, 2016 at 5:13 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 7:38 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 8:01 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 8:03 AM ^
And he definitely would not have passed on 3rd. Hate to say it but in hindsight a run there takes more time off which may have helped
Either way a terrible punt and terrible face mask call doomed us
Is it possible the punt was so bad because Allen is overused? What can we do about that? Probably nothing but hope it doesn't hurt us again
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November 13th, 2016 at 8:58 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 10:36 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 8:00 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^
Especially considering that it would have been a 40+ yard field goal right up until that QB draw. That's hardly gimme territory because #collegekickers
November 13th, 2016 at 8:08 AM ^
November 13th, 2016 at 8:11 AM ^
would have been to approach that last drive the way you'd approach a drive in the 1st quarter. Don't even think about the clock. With them having 3 timeouts there's just no way you're going to drain the clock significantly enough in any event for the clock to become a major issue for them.
There's a higher probability of making the required 1st down if you do that, but even if you throw 3 passes and go 3 and out, there would still be like 1:38 or so on the clock which leaves you in pretty much exactly the same situation except Iowa would still have timeouts. But how are they of use to them? They're more likely to run out of downs than time given the scenario. If anything it would increase the chance for them to kick a FG with perhaps 30 seconds left which gives us another shot (albeit a long one but better than none).
The issue here is IMO that a lot of routine attitudes held by coaches in football today still come from a time where being a score down with 2 minutes left is a big deal, where the 2 minute drill was seen as a 'hero' scenario - rather than the reality of today's game where you can see 3 touchdowns scored in under 2 minutes on a pretty much weekly basis.
Harbaugh is not as stodgy and conservative as he likes to pretend but yesterday he coached down to Ferentz's level and that favored Iowa whose special teams effort basically won the game for them. You got into a game with them where their punter could earn MVP basically and that's not where you want to be.
November 13th, 2016 at 8:17 AM ^
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November 13th, 2016 at 8:35 AM ^
I think they figured they could get that third down stop. Which would leave 30 seconds on the clock. After Allen nailed that 51 yarder they might've felt that was the only chance.