A good coach would not play Lombardi/W Hayes/ Ray Goof football and act surprised when he loses every other game late innthe fourth like clockwork.
This. The best part of all this(or worst if l guess if you’re Usce) is that he’s completely dismissed the fact that in the last two 4th quarters against us, he’s been out scored 35-7, including his garbage time 7 Saturday, and with us taking a knee at his 1 last year. That stat could easily have been 42-0. So maybe start there when trying to dissect your problems.
And as others have said, it was a bad day all around. But let’s say by chance they call the false start or illegal pick. Is there any basis for saying we don’t go right down the field and score anyway? On the second example, we were inside their 5, had the lead and all the momentum. Backing us up a few yards doesn’t guarantee no score. And I’d love to have begun the game with a stop on 3rd down before the near side official gave them an extra yard and a first down. They forget that the announcers were critical of that one also. Who knows how things go if we get the ball and a chance to score first, rather than playing catch-up all afternoon. I won’t even get into Pitts and what may have been at midfield with a correct PI call.
But by the time it was all done, we led by 18. Not a last second FG or final stand. An 18 point deficit. That’s not getting hosed on a play here or there. That’s just losing a game that happened to also contain some really bad calls. As always, WM can’t just accept that he’s not particularly good at his job. It always has to be something else and the world looking on is wrong.
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