So I'm sitting here watching the Ok-Boise game, and there was little doubt in my mind that Oklahoma was going to score when it had the ball in the last two minutes. Heck, me and 10 other random 40-year-olds would have had a chance against that defense. The same when Boise got the ball back with under a minute left, down by seven.
For anyone who is even a casual football fan, they know that the scoring blitz within the last two minutes of a game is the rule rather than the exception. I'm not just talking about when a defense is playing soft because it has a big lead. I'm talking about when the game is on the line.
So, my question to you -- Is this simply a case of offenses having a huge upper-hand against the prevent defense, and if so, why does nearly every coach in the country (at every level) continue to go with the prevent in such situations? Or, is it a simple case of an offense opening things up and catching the defense off-guard? If that is the case, why don't we see teams run the two-minute offense throughout the course of a game?
Bottom line -- All too often, you see Team A shut down Team B for 58 minutes when Team A is unsure of what Team B is going to do offensively. Now, in the final two minutes with the game on the line, Team A KNOWS exactly what Team B is going to do with the ball, and all of a sudden the defense is nowhere to be found. WHY?
I posed this question to a number of area high school coaches and received some interesting feedback. Just curious what the RX community thinks.
For anyone who is even a casual football fan, they know that the scoring blitz within the last two minutes of a game is the rule rather than the exception. I'm not just talking about when a defense is playing soft because it has a big lead. I'm talking about when the game is on the line.
So, my question to you -- Is this simply a case of offenses having a huge upper-hand against the prevent defense, and if so, why does nearly every coach in the country (at every level) continue to go with the prevent in such situations? Or, is it a simple case of an offense opening things up and catching the defense off-guard? If that is the case, why don't we see teams run the two-minute offense throughout the course of a game?
Bottom line -- All too often, you see Team A shut down Team B for 58 minutes when Team A is unsure of what Team B is going to do offensively. Now, in the final two minutes with the game on the line, Team A KNOWS exactly what Team B is going to do with the ball, and all of a sudden the defense is nowhere to be found. WHY?
I posed this question to a number of area high school coaches and received some interesting feedback. Just curious what the RX community thinks.
