Glenn Sosbee wrote:George S. Patton wrote:Glenn Sosbee wrote:I am sick and tired of losing healthy leads only to get beat in over-time. SMU should be 5-1 right now and making noise nationally. The Navy and Washington St. OT losses were almost identical, and they were both equally damaging.
We are probably gonna be 3-5 in a couple of weeks, when we should have been 5-3 and a near lock for a bowl bid. God, I'm so tired of losing. I'm also tired of waiting till "next year". I've had it with that crap. This team has the personnel to win now.
Do you remember how the passes looked on the TD drive that tied the game to send it into overtime. Looked like we took what the defense gave us.
But in this offense, something is always going to be available. It's a matter of the QB making the right reads and hitting the receiver.
Having to throw the ball to send the game into overtime is a no-brainer. Of course you are gonna throw the ball in desperation time. I'm talking about sustaining drives that eat up the clock when you have the lead, in an attempt to avoid the last minute urgency. Get the lead, then put your boot on their throat. It's called a killer instinct and we don't have one.
You have to complete the passes to get there. Please don't diminish the drive Mitchell engineered. If he doesn't do that, then you're all over him for failing to put the team in a position to tie the game. That was a darn good looking drive.
Now, I agree that we blew the two chances late in the second quarter when we had great field position and came up with nothing. If we're up at the very least 27-7 at the half, that really changes how Navy has to approach the second half. Alas, it was not.
And keep in mind how much better field position Navy had for the second half.
I've moved on from this game. I'll bet the football team has as well.