Quote:I just like the mentality of going for the win right then and there.

So do I, but when your short-yardage game is as abysmal as ours has been and you're, for whatever reason, more apt to play the 195-lb. scatback on 4th and inches than you are your stud, why invite the door slam?

 

Quote:The one play had decent blocking across the line.  I think if they had Yeldon in there he would have scored.  But it isn't hard to arm chair offensive coordinator the decisions.

I don't know that Yeldon would have made much of a difference. On the one hand, running D-Rob up the middle three times in short-yardage made no sense. On the other, if Yeldon was really showing something in practice short-yardage situations, why would the team be going to D-Rob and Gerhart? Makes me wonder if he's just not a great short-yardage player at this point in his career.

 

Quote:Didnt mind the field goal at all with our short run game in disarray all season.

 

But like another poster said, they shouldve tried a hard count and try to draw them offsides. Atleast give the illusion you are going for it and then take a timeout and kick it.

I kind of wondered why they didn't do this, and here's the best I can figure: they expected that if Tennessee did score a touchdown, it would have been a quick hit, and they'd have needed those timeouts to ensure that they had three plays to get into field goal range, and a fourth to make the kick.

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