This is a term Matt Millen used yesterday to criticize the lack of a avoid a review play in the play book on our first drive of the second half. After a gift of a spot, the offense milled around for 30 seconds before WI called their time out and challenged. This decision, or, lack of a plan, took away a first down, and resulted in a WI touchdown on the ensuing possession. Millen thought this was a huge mistake on our part and I agree.
Then there is the universally agreed upon bad decision to blow two timeouts on the final drive around a QB sneak for a first down.
There are two other instances from the first half, that at first glance, seem to be innocuous but illustrate that our coaching staff needs to improve on their game awareness:
1) ARob's long run on the first touchdown drive. Live, I thought to myself, he stepped out on the 8. We mill around for 25 seconds, booth challenge. The play stood, with a review is imminent play in the playbook, this never happens.
2) On the touchdown drive to end the half, Stanzi throws an incomplete pass into the first row on first down leaving 55 seconds left, then we take a time out with the clock stopped. Again, it didn't cost us, but it certainly raised red flags for me.
All in all, I feel like this coaching staff does an excellent job preparing the players for the game, but there is a gaping hole in their preparation. It doesn't seem to me that KF realizes that these types of things add up, and just because they don't factor in the outcome of the game 9 times out of 10, it doesn't mean that when they do, you can shrug off the mistakes.
Then there is the universally agreed upon bad decision to blow two timeouts on the final drive around a QB sneak for a first down.
There are two other instances from the first half, that at first glance, seem to be innocuous but illustrate that our coaching staff needs to improve on their game awareness:
1) ARob's long run on the first touchdown drive. Live, I thought to myself, he stepped out on the 8. We mill around for 25 seconds, booth challenge. The play stood, with a review is imminent play in the playbook, this never happens.
2) On the touchdown drive to end the half, Stanzi throws an incomplete pass into the first row on first down leaving 55 seconds left, then we take a time out with the clock stopped. Again, it didn't cost us, but it certainly raised red flags for me.
All in all, I feel like this coaching staff does an excellent job preparing the players for the game, but there is a gaping hole in their preparation. It doesn't seem to me that KF realizes that these types of things add up, and just because they don't factor in the outcome of the game 9 times out of 10, it doesn't mean that when they do, you can shrug off the mistakes.
