THE SPIKE THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED

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to me, you only spike the ball with like 4 or 5 seconds left, and you have to stop the clock to bring on the FG unit

and you DO NOT run the f'ing ball in that situation, why the hell would he even thing that? it takes a good 15 to 20 seconds to get everyone unpilled and lined back up, minimum.

IMO, you go up and run 3 quick pass plays into the endzone, making sure not to take a damn sack. and if you do get sacked and theres only a few seconds left, THEN you spike the ball and kick the fg

[Harlan Huckleby]

When you get near the end of a close game, scoring opportunities are precious. To throw one of those limited opportunities away by spiking is inexcusable. Argument that a team is too inexperienced or disorganized to line-up and run an audible is defeatest.

(Only exception is if there is not enough time available to use all your available downs anyway.)

[Bretsky]

Naw, spiking was perfectly fine when you have six players, a FB, a RB, two WRs and two guards with a combined experience level of 21 games in GB. Three in their 5th Packer game, two in their second (assuming Morency was in on the passing play, as he had been earlier) and one (Robinson) in his fourth packer game. Even if Herron was in the ball game, his experience is virtually nill.

But, if you insist on not "wasting" a play, rather than go no huddle, I would go with a quick huddle, so at least everyone would be clear on what would happen, Then go no huddle on the second play if for some reason the clock wasn't stopped by the first play.

I know you keep throwing out our youth as a reason that we might not be mentally prepared enough not succeed at this, and maybe it's the right reasoning. But I'd like to think these guys are smart enough to be able to do this w/o the mental errors. They do have a hurry up offense that they should have practiced all week in place and I want to believe these guys are well coached enough so they won't make a mental error in this situation.

So I go back to the physical part; gives you an extra play and MORE importantly I thought the Rams DL was really winded so we don't let them get that extra beather to rush the passer. And we don't let them regroup with their coaches while MM calls a winner play and we score. One can dream.

B

[MJZiggy]

Actually, B, you make a very good point. Our guys may be very young, but the number of mental errors (at least in the form of line penalties, etc.) seems to be way down from the last couple of years.