Winning Ugly is this the game that changes the culture?

[adam]

The Hail Mary ended Flus's run, the team was sleepwalking after that game.

My hope is this is the signature gritty win they were looking for, battling for 60 minutes to scrap out a last second win.

Johnson needs to improve his play calling; felt like he was forcing the runs that were turning into instant lost yards. Then, with first and goal at the 2, you score on first down when you could have burned the clock all the way down and forced them to use their timeouts.

A lot of learning points while getting a win going into the bye. They really need Edwards, Jarrett, Gordon, and Wright back. 

[Pixote]

4 minutes ago, adam said:

The Hail Mary ended Flus's run, the team was sleepwalking after that game.

My hope is this is the signature gritty win they were looking for, battling for 60 minutes to scrap out a last second win.

Johnson needs to improve his play calling; felt like he was forcing the runs that were turning into instant lost yards. Then, with first and goal at the 2, you score on first down when you could have burned the clock all the way down and forced them to use their timeouts.

A lot of learning points while getting a win going into the bye. They really need Edwards, Jarrett, Gordon, and Wright back. 

I understand your point.

However, if they burned the clock and something happened, and we failed to score, we'd be 1-3 going into the bye.

The way things were going, I could see us trying to score with 5 seconds left, Caleb gets sacked, or a WR drops another pass, and we lose the game.

[AZ54]

5 minutes ago, Pixote said:

I understand your point.

However, if they burned the clock and something happened, and we failed to score, we'd be 1-3 going into the bye.

The way things were going, I could see us trying to score with 5 seconds left, Caleb gets sacked, or a WR drops another pass, and we lose the game.

I’m with you here.  This was not the game to burn clock expecting mistake free football on the last drive.  

[adam]

Can't count on a blocked FG to win, glad that happened, but could've avoided that situation with better clock management. 

I understand the theory of just scoring, but teams sometimes allow teams to score to get the ball back with more time. With how the defense was playing in the 2nd half, you can't give the other team that much time and allow that big of a return. 

[DABEARSDABOMB]

2 hours ago, adam said:

Can't count on a blocked FG to win, glad that happened, but could've avoided that situation with better clock management. 

I understand the theory of just scoring, but teams sometimes allow teams to score to get the ball back with more time. With how the defense was playing in the 2nd half, you can't give the other team that much time and allow that big of a return. 

It would have been impossible to burn the clock out. You got to score. I’m actually think it worked out well as bears still would have had 38 seconds and 2 timeouts had the kick gone in - which to me would have been a much better place to be in then if the Bears gave the raiders 1 minute to go and no timeouts. 

[jason]

4 hours ago, adam said:

The Hail Mary ended Flus's run, the team was sleepwalking after that game.

My hope is this is the signature gritty win they were looking for, battling for 60 minutes to scrap out a last second win.

Johnson needs to improve his play calling; felt like he was forcing the runs that were turning into instant lost yards. Then, with first and goal at the 2, you score on first down when you could have burned the clock all the way down and forced them to use their timeouts.

A lot of learning points while getting a win going into the bye. They really need Edwards, Jarrett, Gordon, and Wright back. 

Don’t agree on this one. You don’t dick around when you can score a TD, because TDs aren’t guaranteed.