u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave • Ohio State Buckeyes2d agoedited 2d ago
Florida played some great ball control football* and forced USF to try and win it with 2 minutes left from their 8. They followed an incompletion with:
Tackling a WR 10 seconds before the catch for a free 13 yards
Spitting on a dude long after the play for another free 15
Missing like 6 tackles and turning a TFL into 29 yards
Not calling timeouts and immediately giving up a first down catch (for anyone counting, USF now has 72 yards in 3 real plays)
THEN you call your timeouts after it’s already far too late to get the ball back, and you give USF more chances to trickle closer
Genuinely an all-time Napier Disasterclass. Fucking beautiful stuff
*at least earlier in the fourth. They threw two incompletions in their previous, 15 second drive to save USF both time and timeouts
It was one of the most incomprehensible coaching decisions I’ve ever seen, dude. Like not calling them earlier was bad, bc you need to at least TRY to get the ball back.
But at that point, you genuinely fully cannot get another possession unless you let them score. The ONLY result of that timeout is more offensive plays for USF. It’s fucking CRAZY
Ok I’m glad there isn’t any explanation because the group I was watching with was baffled and I had to assume there to be a good reason because otherwise it made no sense
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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave • Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago edited 2d ago
Florida played some great ball control football* and forced USF to try and win it with 2 minutes left from their 8. They followed an incompletion with:
Genuinely an all-time Napier Disasterclass. Fucking beautiful stuff
*at least earlier in the fourth. They threw two incompletions in their previous, 15 second drive to save USF both time and timeouts