Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

[Panther789]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

I'm certainly no coach, but the only play call that bothered me was the last. The running the last "series" was standard operating procedure. They had three times outs, and we made them burn them all, upping the level of difficulty of that last drive many times over. I'm not sure I run the edges like that, but the staff has seen more film and knows what they can get better than I.

Exactly. The play that everyone is forgetting is the punt. The punt itself was weak and the coverage was worse.

If they start that drive from the 20 or in their whole mindset has to change.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

Exactly. The play that everyone is forgetting is the punt. The punt itself was weak and the coverage was worse.

If they start that drive from the 20 or in their whole mindset has to change.

I agree, an unsuccessful play.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

I may be the only one that thinks this but with a quality backup quarterback that had proven himself during the year with three road wins over tough opponents and a starting quarter back who is obviously hobbled and needing a first down to win don't you put the best player on the field that gives you a chance to win? Was Pat the best player to have on the field? I don't think Richmond was to worried about him running or throwing the ball that series. We had momentum from the defensive stop and putting in a fully functional backup to get the 10 yards is a pretty safe bet. If he was to throw an interception you are in the same situation the defense having to stop a scoring drive.

Davis looked like he had a lot going on in his head last week.

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

The thing I have NEVER understood is the fake reverse. If we had run the actual reverse, we had about 20 yards or a TD. The defense was crushing the run up the middle and the reverse had them way out of position. But again, why run the FAKE reverse? So we get the defense to go, "wow, I was burnt on that one... next time I better stay at home". So what do we do after the fake reverse? We run an actual reverse!! We show them how they COULD have been burnt, then run it again. That is called "practice". Just a ??? for Salmon.

[jegbomb52]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

I believe the punt was about 40 yards and was caught inside the twenty. Just for the record.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

I believe the punt was about 40 yards and was caught inside the twenty. Just for the record.

That sounds right. The coverage wasn't exceptional, but unless you're going to try and angle it out of bounds or through the endzone, there's not much more the punter can do. It was a pretty good return.

[CincyPanther88]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

The defense did its job - they stuffed the fourth and inches with two minutes left. The OFF needed to make 10 yards and the game was over at that point.

True. But it's hard to believe that that same defense let Richmond go 70 yards in a little over a minute with no time outs.

[dan_beeding]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

I wish Farley would've told Brook to put that thing through the HOF and into the McLeod. That extra 20 yards in field position could've been 14 seconds.

[TH1974]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

True. But it's hard to believe that that same defense let Richmond go 70 yards in a little over a minute with no time outs.

A good point, also.

[jegbomb52]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

Can someone answer this for me, when the injured player left the field (bush league injury) the Richmonds QB was on the sideline talking to the head coach, they didn't start the clock until the QB was on the field under center.

Shouldn't they have started the clock when the injured player was off?

Not like it would have made any different but, you never know.

[CincyPanther88]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

Can someone answer this for me, when the injured player left the field (bush league injury) the Richmonds QB was on the sideline talking to the head coach, they didn't start the clock until the QB was on the field under center.

Shouldn't they have started the clock when the injured player was off?

Not like it would have made any different but, you never know.

I was thinking that too. I know in the NFL, if a team is out of time outs and a player is injured, they run 10 seconds (I think) off the clock before the center can even touch the ball. Guess that's only in the NFL.

[UNIChippewa]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

Shouldn't they have started the clock when the injured player was off?

Good question, I honestly don't know.

Incidentally, I thought the officiating was pretty solid all around. I'm sure there might have been a couple of calls they may have missed, but nothing egregious.

[06panther10]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

Officiating wasn't too bad. Though we never EVER seem to get a holding call. Two straight weeks some of our d-linemen were dragged to the ground and no holding call. And why the hell was there not an intentional grounding call on UR's last drive? That WAS a blown call.

Back to the point, the coaches called a good game in my opinion. They gave the players an opportunity to win the game, but we dropped too many passes, missed too many FGs, and overthrew too many passes. That is the bottom line.

[Leatherhelmet]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

So was their fullback faking an injury or not?

They were out of timeouts and he was lying two yards from the sideline.

[Panther Fan]

Re: Any explanation from the coaching staff yet?

So was their fullback faking an injury or not?

They were out of timeouts and he was lying two yards from the sideline.

No way he was. I wasn't going to bring it up as sour grapes but as long as someone is asking. I was watching parts of the game again last night and from the TV shots I see that he kind of hits his shoulder on the ground after he makes the catch, gets up and flips the ball to the ref and starts walking off the field. TV shows their coach (unbelievably not yelling at an official at the time) and then they go back to the player. I'm probably reading to much into this but the trainer looks up twice almost as if to see if the ref is going to come over and look at what's going on. After a few checks by the trainer guy gets up and walks off the field, not even holding his arm. Probably just part of the game, everyone is looking for an edge, but certainly did help Richmond take a minute to get composed.

As you flip back through parts of the game there are so many little things that if it would have just gone our way it would have been game over.