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#241 Oriole85

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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:51 PM

I think the Military Bowl is too good for this team. Isn't there a bowl game in Yemen or Somalia yet?

Siberia?


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:52 PM

Siberia?

Greenland. There are people in Siberia. Why subject them to this?


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:54 PM

I'm mad as hell, and sorry if I'm missing something (very possible) BUT WHY did Edsall call a timeout on that 3rd and four play with 30 some seconds left?? Why would you stop the clock and help the opponent's chances of continuing their drive when they were either out of timeouts OR had one remaining? He hoped a third down stop would give our prolific offense a chance to get the ball back? LOL



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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:55 PM

Maybe they can convert some barren farmland in a North Korean gulag into a football field and send them to a bowl game there. And if we're lucky, the North Koreans will detain Edsall.


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:56 PM

I'm mad as hell, and sorry if I'm missing something (very possible) BUT WHY did Edsall call a timeout on that 3rd and four play with 30 some seconds left?? Why would you stop the clock and help the opponent's chances of continuing their drive when they were either out of timeouts OR had one remaining? He hoped a third down stop would give our prolific offense a chance to get the ball back? LOL

You mean the second down play with 44 seconds, right? From what I recall (and according to the PBP) that's the only one they called. Well, other than the obvious...

 

That was to try and get the ball back themselves if they could get a stop. They didn't (the next play was the long run), and then BC spiked, ran one more play, then kicked.


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:57 PM

Maybe they can convert some barren farmland in a North Korean gulag into a football field and send them to a bowl game there. And if we're lucky, the North Koreans will detain Edsall.

 

http://news.yahoo.co...-091522068.html


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:57 PM

Some coaches just seem to make the wrong calls at the wrong times... 

Regardless, allowing the ONE guy -that everyone knows is getting the football- to run for 263 yards is simply pathetic. Another in a series of terrible losses.



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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:58 PM

You mean the second down play with 44 seconds, right? From what I recall (and according to the PBP) that's the only one they called. Well, other than the obvious...

 

That was to try and get the ball back themselves if they could get a stop. They didn't (the next play was the long run), and then BC spiked, ran one more play, then kicked.

 

It was third down and four, not 2nd... before the long Williams run at the end. Yeah... unbelievable.



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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:00 PM

Hate the call to ice the kicker.  Have always hated it. 

 

Good to see the team playing well again though.  After that Syracuse game it certainly looked to me like they would lose out.  They should beat State next week and be on there way to a bowl, however uninspiring it may be.

 

Frustrating game for sure.  Not at all a bad loss as BC is a good team, just too many things they let slip away


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:01 PM

No, I mean the play in their territory on third and four, before the long Williams run at the end.

http://espn.go.com/n...270120&period=4

 

OK, I had the down wrong, but the time right. Same reason, though: if they got the stop on third down, they call the second TO with ~35 seconds left, BC punts, and Maryland has one timeout to try and pull out a final drive.


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:01 PM

I'm mad as hell, and sorry if I'm missing something (very possible) BUT WHY did Edsall call a timeout on that 3rd and four play with 30 some seconds left?? Why would you stop the clock and help the opponent's chances of continuing their drive when they were either out of timeouts OR had one remaining? He hoped a third down stop would give our prolific offense a chance to get the ball back? LOL

 

I thought the first TO was a good call.  Just got unlucky with Williams busting the big run after it



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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:05 PM

I thought the first TO was a good call.  Just got unlucky with Williams busting the big run after it

 

 

http://espn.go.com/n...270120&period=4

 

OK, I had the down wrong, but the time right. Same reason, though: if they got the stop on third down, they call the second TO with ~35 seconds left, BC punts, and Maryland has one timeout to try and pull out a final drive.

 

Right... we are on the same page... I just hated the call. Was yelling at Edsall when he did it. Ah well...



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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:08 PM

Right... we are on the same page... I just hated the call. Was yelling at Edsall when he did it. Ah well...

 

I don't have an issue with them wanting to take one more shot before overtime. Though I can see why you would want them to just let it go.


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:08 PM

I thought the first TO was a good call.  Just got unlucky with Williams busting the big run after it

Yeah, this stuff always looks worse in hindsight. Knowing what we know now, it was a pretty stupid TO.


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:13 PM

Maybe they can convert some barren farmland in a North Korean gulag into a football field and send them to a bowl game there. And if we're lucky, the North Koreans will detain Edsall.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.co...-091522068.html

 

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Posted 23 November 2013 - 07:15 PM

I don't have an issue with them wanting to take one more shot before overtime. Though I can see why you would want them to just let it go.

 

I hear ya. It was just an infuriating game to watch.


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