I've been reading some garbage about people being upset with Richt's use of timeouts in the 2nd half against Tech.
REALLY?
How seriously are you hurting for something to complain about when you try to attach the use of 2 timeouts in the 3rd quarter to "bad clock management"? The big issue seems to stem from the fact that Georgia called two timeouts within two plays and one yard of one another.
Now, forgive me as I am not at home and can not look at the DVR of the game right now, but I don't recall the situation behind the FIRST of the two timeouts. I know Chapas had just made a run to the 2 on 1st down. So, we're at 2nd and goal from the 2. I don't know if Murray or Richt called the 1st timeout. If it was Murray, then it would have been because he didn't like the playcall given the defense. I just don't know.
Of course, it's doubtful that with 2 minutes remaining in the 3rd quarter, people would be all up in arms about using the first of 3 timeouts. No, people are upset because a little more than a game-minute later, with 55 seconds remaining in the 3rd, Richt called the second timeout. I remember this one well. I remember Richt running down the sideline and calling the timeout. And I know WHY he did it.
Ealey had just been stoned on two up-the-middle runs to the endzone. His knee touched before he got the ball across on the first play, and he failed to extend the ball on the second. The team lined up quickly on 4th and goal from the 1. My guess is that the call was to run the dive again. Richt saw that it was not going to work, so he called the 2nd timeout. What was the result? We got the right play called, Ealey went off to the right instead of up the middle, and Georgia took a 28-21 lead with 40 seconds remaining in the 3rd.
Oh, and what of that pesky third timeout? We never used it. Didn't need to.
People think that timeouts are there just to prolong the end of a tight game...that you MUST save them in order to give yourself a chance to win it at the end.
Because Richt called that 2nd timeout, we took a lead which we never surrendered and didn't NEED additional timeouts at the end of the game.
But no, I don't expect Joe Fan to understand that.
Go Dawgs.
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I think the frustration comes with the fact that we squander timeouts quite often. The Vandy game was the worst example this year. Color me Joe.
You did a good job of analyzing the timeouts. If I remember correctly Murray called the first one and Richt called the second one, and then changed the play. Maybe the complainers would have rather Richt not call it and watch Georgia get stuffed? What's seven points compared to saving your timeouts?
To call that bad clock management is pretty dumb. That is in fact a truly nitpicky thing to try to criticize Richt about.
Just went back through Dawgbone to see who you might be responding to. Saw that Sports and Grits wrote something about timeouts. That is truly a blog run by morons -- they make the folks at Bleacher report seem smart.
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http://dawgsandbstreet.blogspot.com/2010/12/only-in-florida.html
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