3rd and 10
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But with a QB who may or may not be having head issues.
CycloneErik
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Well, playing for Jim Walden created head issues for everyone.
Anyone… coaches, announcers, Rocco… relying on our OL to get us critical yards …needs their head checked.
Cyclonepride
Thought Police
Honestly, I think Rocco is feeling the pressure of having to carry the team. When you're THE GUY, you will sometimes fail. That's just the way of things. I have no doubt that he'll come back and finish this thing strong.
Cyclonepride
Thought Police
Our line was fine. I thought they played well. QB and receivers lost that game, but they'll bounce back.
All season we have been told how much the staff trusts Rocco to make the right call, and if he thinks the call is not there to check out of it and run something else. The QB draw on 3rd and 10 should have never been ran, and the RPO that he gave the ball to Sama when he saw how everyone on the defense was bunched in the middle should have been a fake to him and keep it going around the corner on 4th and 1.5 We did the same play last week where he handed it off and should have kept it.
I didn’t hate the QB draw play call if you plan on going for it on 4th down. But to run THAT play and then punt on the most crucial drive of the game in Colorado territory is one of the worst play call + coaching decisions I’ve ever seen. It was like we just gave up.
It was a call that he should have checked out of when he saw how the defense was lined up. I would think the OC thought that in 3rd and 10 the defense would think were in a passing mode, but instead they were looking for the QB run, maybe something they say on tape that tipped them off. Play should have never been run.
Beyond this play, Rocco didn't look sharp, in any way, shape or form.
Sure, some drops but a lotta s***y passes, including off target bullets.
Sure, some drops but a lotta s***y passes, including off target bullets.
To go for it on 4th and almost 2 from your own 20 and then later in the game in a much more dire situation run a qb draw on 3rd and 10 and then punt from midfield is borderline insane.
I doubt that anyone who responded to this post is privy to what the coaches thought process was, myself included. My copium is that Rocco checked out of the called play on fourth down and was limited to what was run by the personnel on the field--and it resulted in failure.. The punt on fourth down later in the game was called so the same mistake wasn't made again.
No sane fan thought we would go undefeated and the Iowa and Arkey St games exposed how little our margin for error was, and the injuries since then compounded that. We may still pull off an upset of a title contender, but that is what it will be {an upset] unless we get some key contributors back. Even with our original lineup the kicking game is the only top tier phase of the game we exhibited.
Blame the coaching or the players if that's what makes you sleep better but we were fighting for second place at best and now that would take some mayhem.
No sane fan thought we would go undefeated and the Iowa and Arkey St games exposed how little our margin for error was, and the injuries since then compounded that. We may still pull off an upset of a title contender, but that is what it will be {an upset] unless we get some key contributors back. Even with our original lineup the kicking game is the only top tier phase of the game we exhibited.
Blame the coaching or the players if that's what makes you sleep better but we were fighting for second place at best and now that would take some mayhem.
I could tell on tv they were gonna run the qb draw. Im sure CU saw it too.
And i dont even hate the call per se, but there was no "draw" it was just like a direct snap. It was badly executed too. Never let the rcvrs run a step and maybe draw away the LBs.
Just 1 of 500 mistakes yeaterday
How many 5 yd passes can you throw on 3rd and 10+? Evidently a lot.
Its a fine call if you're going for it on 4th down. Most of the time that gets 4-5 yards, but it was only 2 yesterday. Still, punting there made no sense and made the 3rd down call look bad.
Throwing for RAC is completely fine. CU's defense often left those chances open for us to take, and there was many of them. The problem was putting the ball on a guy's chest at reasonable pace and actually catching it.
After sleeping on it, that 3rd and 10 QB draw is as bad as everyone thought. Sama ran for 7.5 ypc and Rocco’s average completion was 12 yards. Instead, we tried to run a QB draw up the gut where we had zero success all day. A truly awful play call, even if we were going to go for it on 4th down.
We had a QB draw that worked, I think it was the only other designed QB run we did. This was more like QB power and it sure seemed like Rocco checked into it at the line, maybe they had two plays called? The real bizarre play IMO was punting it after that.
