L.C. YOu kind of miss the point. The question isn't so much what we should have run on the last drive of the first half. The first question is what could we have possibly run that would have been more conservative? NOthing. That was the absolute heighth of conservative.
We should have run our regular offense. We shouldn't have played stupid, conservative, locked down, boring, crappy ball.
We should try Irons. We should try two back sets. We should find a way to use Papi and Walker's speed. We seemed not to have targeted Heitzman much. A million things. Maybe an inside shovel pass run to a crossing back or receiver. Any of many, many reasonably standard things. I'm not calling for a throw it long, bomb on every play offense. Just a confident, smart offense that takes it to the other side and isn't deathly afraid of a turnover.
It's amazing to me that you cannot see that what we are doing isn't working. Almost the entire game after the first drive were nothing both today and versus Herd.
Daz, Papi, AJ, Walker, Smith, Brown, Irons, Cope, Heitzman. I'm sure that I'm missing names--but I'll bet that our skill guys are better, more abundant than what Minne has.
We should have won today.
Hell, we almost did playing locked down, conservative, no-challenge ball.
It's always interesting to me that when I point out specifics I get very few responses...here, only one.
The stuff that I point to is pretty basic, nothing particularly extreme. But when I actually support my general theme (instead of just posting general complaints..I actually point out what we could do to be better), pretty much dead silence.
So, either I'm right and you agree with me (fat chance) or you have no answer--which may mean that I'm making sense (which most wouldn't here admit).