11-08-2024, 02:43 PM
(11-08-2024, 02:32 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I’d have kicked it. 38 seconds is 38 seconds. Lots of other ways to gamble. With Tee I go for 2. But 39 seconds even with Tucker is not easy.
I'd have kicked it too.
I think my biggest problem with the 2pt try is that they let the playclock go all the way down and then took the timeout. I am firmly a believer in that if you go for 2, you are best off doing it up-tempo after the TD you got. The defense is reeling from giving up a TD, guys might be looking at who-let-who-get-open and thinking about the last play, and you are just immediately ready to take advantage of them reeling to get a quick conversion.
Between the playclock after the TD, the timeout, and then the playclock after the timeout, you're giving the defense over a full minute to catch their breath and collect themselves for the task at hand.
It's a bit like how the best time to try to take a deep shot is right after a turnover when the defense has to run on the field when they thought they were taking a break still, and might not be fully mentally checked in yet.
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