Questionable End Game Strategy

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dlew

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Did anyone else wonder why we decided to just waste those last 30 seconds and go ahead with the kick rather than try and gain another few yards? I thought this was very questionable especially considering Daniel Lincoln had already missed a kick (he missed it short) from less than that range already. I was just curious if anyone else had an opinion on this...
 
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One holding call would have screwed it up. It's not too much to ask that a kicker make a 44 yard field goal. Sure we could have moved the ball more, but the end result would have likely have been the same.
 
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What would you do? Put the ball in the air again. We should be able to make 40 yard kicks.
 
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BookVol said:
One holding call would have screwed it up. It's not too much to ask that a kicker make a 44 yard field goal. Sure we could have moved the ball more, but the end result would have likely have been the same.
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really good point. Penalty and we are done. Also we were in between the hashmarks.
 
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I would have liked to see one more pass play. If we get another first down, then you can try to put it in the end zone without kicking.

In the post game the coach said Lincoln has been kicking with a bad quad. Why put the game on a bad leg from 40+ yards.
 
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Ok lets play that game of what ifs.
What if Crompton throws the ball under a blitz package right into the hands of a Bama safety, would we be questioning if Kiffin should have just played conservative and given our kicker a reasonable shot at winning a game?
 
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Kiffin said he would rather have done that than have Cromp throw a pass and it get tipped for a pick, or take a sack or get a holding penalty.

He believed the team had done all it could to get in the position to win and taking another risk would not be a good call.
 
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i would agree also...but...kiffin had faith in his kicker and i stand behind that...kiffin is a great coach i think .....
 
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No time outs, potential holding penalty, potential turnover, should be a makeable FG...
 
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What happens if you get a holding penalty, get sacked, or throw a pick? Kiffin and/or Crompton would have been crucified by this board if any of those happened.
 
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In this case is danged if you do, danged if you don't. There was just less chance of being danged if he didn't.
 
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Hey guys, listen to Lane's post game comments. We had eight penalties to Alabama's one, I think he thought that the ref's could easily take this opportunity to win the game away from them if they tried to move the ball, whether it be a holding penalty or anything that could take them out field goal range. After listening to the post game radio show comments it seemed that Lane might have thought the ref's could take the field goal chance away.
 
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But it was 3rd down and not short. A run short of the first would have kept the clock running and that would have rushed the kicking unit probably causing the same effect. A pass could have been intercepted and that would have been a death sentence too. In short Kiffin made a reasonable call. Lincoln just couldn't do it.

And penalties could have been a factor too...
 
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BookVol said:
In this case is danged if you do, danged if you don't. There was just less chance of being danged if he didn't.
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I think Lincoln got mind f'ed after the short FG, and was trying to kick it lower to drive it sub conciously, and that was the problem...

Who knows, all that matters in retrospect is that he left 9 points on the field tonight.
 
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If we picked up another first down we could have spiked the ball easily and still kicked from a closer range. I'm not blaming Kiffin for making the decision he made... It was however the conservative call IMO and I think we could have been in a better position to win the game had we been a little more agressive.
 
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dlew said:
Did anyone else wonder why we decided to just waste those last 30 seconds and go ahead with the kick rather than try and gain another few yards? I thought this was very questionable especially considering Daniel Lincoln had already missed a kick (he missed it short) from less than that range already. I was just curious if anyone else had an opinion on this...
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Questionable Stupid Post:good!:
 
#21
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I don't see how Kiffin could have played it any differently. Everything had to happen just right to even get into FG range. We were an INT, sack or penalty away from screwing it up.
 
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dlew said:
If we picked up another first down we could have spiked the ball easily and still kicked from a closer range. I'm not blaming Kiffin for making the decision he made... It was however the conservative call IMO and I think we could have been in a better position to win the game had we been a little more agressive.
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Nah...as a coach you expect your kicker to make a 44 yard field goal and for it not to be blocked twice in one game. You don't run a play where a fumble, interception, penalty etc. could happen for an extra 3 to 4 yards.
 
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If you trust your QB, then you take a shot at getting closer. Obviously. But if you have a fragile, questionable QB like Kiffin does, then there's way too much risk of completing a pass in the middle of the field and then being unable to get the team up on the line to spike the ball on time. The absolute worst thing that can happen there is that you don't even get a chance to get a kick off. I have no problem with the way Kiffin played it.
 
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jaxvol said:
I would have liked to see one more pass play. If we get another first down, then you can try to put it in the end zone without kicking.

In the post game the coach said Lincoln has been kicking with a bad quad. Why put the game on a bad leg from 40+ yards.
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because we wanted to win the game!!
 
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vader said:
No time outs, potential holding penalty, potential turnover, should be a makeable FG...
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Yep, if Cromp gets sacked or we have another penalty people are complaining about how we should have went ahead and kicked.
 
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