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Originally Posted by Nutriaitch
That makes sense, I hadn't thought about it that way. Seems a little risky though.
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very. so much for mr. conservative vrs. the riverboat gambler eh?
if tOSU comes out and drives down the field and scores inside of a minute there is 5 1/2 minutes left. thats waaaaaaaaay to much time to milk the clock 3 and out and count on your d to hold a 7 point lead. anyone and their sister can run a 4 or 5 minute offense. the last thing we wanted with 5 min left and down 7 was lsu to come out thinking they absolutely had to score again. however, if your sitting on 3 min and 7 points you probably think kill the clock leave them with a min or so and the d will either stop them or run them out of time.
at the end of the day with the game on the line tOSU had to put its trust in either the offense or the defense. if you trust the d you have to drive down the field fast and count on your d to stop the opposing team to get the ball back into the hands of your o as many times as possible. you would do this if you didn't trust your o to score on consecutive drives. if you are counting on your o to win and not your d you have to limit the amount of time and drives the opposing team has to put you in a deeper hole. so you bank on your d having a better shot of stopping the opposing team once with time running out and hopefully playing conservatively sitting on a lead rather than twice with atleast 1 of those drives intended to win a now tied game. make sense?