What happened to picks? I was totally gonna win that thing

That is a good point about the kicker though.

This is college football. Maybe you missed some of the fantastic finishes we’ve already seen this year. We have one of the best teams in the country. No reason to think they’re not capable of beating the odds once in awhile.

The reason I’m glad you’re not coaching our kids is that you would apparently have given up and taken a knee after LSU made their once and final TD. In 2006, that attitude would have lost the South Carolina game, possibly the Tennessee game, and maybe even the SEC CG.  So as you can tell, I’m not too thrilled with your opinion on this.  :)

I tell you what I would probably do (like to have seen). Throw a couple of screens against that pass rush and run some of those fake reverses (where the flanker comes back towards to QB as if on a reverse to hold the end and safeties a split second longer). But I thought Florida called a great game. We just lost, no shame in that.

But of course you disagree. The coaches were stupidly shortsighted and blew the game on that timeout. If not for that we would have won!

That’s the difference here. You think we would have won with those 29 seconds and I don’t think it would have changed anything and there for is not important.

I’m looking at the matchups on the field between the teams and the style of play. You are looking at this with an X-Box mindset and thinking back to all the great NFL Alcoa Fantastic Finishes you remember seeing on TV as a kid. Teams just don’t drive 80 yards with 90 seconds against good defenses very often, let alone against a great defense that was fresh from sitting out most of the quarter.

Yep, we were only outscored 21-7 in that second half. I can see your point. Dismissing the fact that Ole Miss and Troy were able to shut us down in the second half, LSU had no chance against our two minute offense (which we don’t really have by the way, not a true hurry up attack. Which is what I’m trying to explain to you guys.  We are a spread offense, not fun and gun.  The offense is predicated on RUNNING the ball.  Spurrier is with the Gamecocks now.  That was a great two minute offense.  This offense is not designed to utilize a bunch of plays with deep and intermediate routes combined like the ole ball coach liked to run.  It just isn’t.  Look at the tapes.  Our deep passes are fly and post patterns with one or two recievers running deep.  That isn’t going to drive you down the field against a cover 3 or prevent late in a game.).

“It was time for us to assert ours offensively and we didn’t answer the call.”

Yeah, that’s my exact point. We didn’t assert in the previous two quarters so now we were going to dominate in a minute and a half???

“This team played good ball for 3.25 quarters.”

Kestahn Moore fumbled just before the end of the 3rd quarter with the score 24-14. Florida had a 3 and out and a 2 play interception drive before the final drive of the game as time expired. To me that sounds like slightly less than 3 quarters so where does your “3.25″ come from? This game could easily have been 34-24 had their kicker not pulled a Chris Hetland for us.

NFL teams practice the two minute drill all the time, they have very sophisticated passing schemes (aka they do not need to rely on the threat of the QB to run the ball to open up the middle of the field) and their percentages in that situation are very low. LSU had bracketed coverage on the outside all game which is why Cooper and Caldwell were non-factors. By the end of the game their LBs were dropping 15-20 yards downfield.

For example, last year when the situation was reversed UF came away with what . . . 3-4 interceptions doing the same thing against a guy who ended up being the first pick in the NFL draft and two other first round WRs?

If Tebow doesn’t throw the pick or Moore doesn’t fumble or Stamper tackles Hester a split second earlier . . . those are game changers. Adding 30 seconds doesn’t guarantee anything. We couldn’t block LSU when they were pinning their ears back against the pass. Without the threat of the run Tebow had no time to throw.

Don’t buy into the Danielson hype. That game was over and we are lucky no one besides Tart got hurt on that last drive. The LSU defense is built to destroy a one dimensional offense.

However…

If the defense holds on at least 1 of those LSU fourth down conversions then it becomes a non-factor…

Coaching mistake? Yes…

Meyer is still a relatively VERY young coach and UF will be lucky to keep him as a career guy…

But in alot of ways he’s like alot of these young kids we’re watching play for him…

Still learning and earning his chops…