In looking at that play more than once it appears to me that a true-option quarterback could have exploited this play better because the DB who crashed towards Colt still looked like he was in no-mans land and a pitch or fake pitch with a burst further outside by Colt would have netted some positive real estate. All of this argument though is interesting because over the years it's been, "If Colt had not been hurt etc." To me, that's like saying a boxer would have won the fight on points had he not been knocked out. Getting hit hard is part of the game. Maybe it's true that they should have not risked Colt getting hurt but then someone once said, "Dance with the one who brung ya." If running Colt was the dress your date wore all year then that's the dress she wears....
Of course, then there's the Don Shula approach of changing things up when faced with the '85 Bears defense...
You guys are off your medz. It was Red McCombs who called the Colt option play against bammy. Stinkin' Red.
That was funny stuff, I laughed. Say what you want about Red, but he was right on the incompetent boob Strong and we suffered the consequences for three years. Just like we are suffering in basketball by hiring a coach that tied the single season loss record of Kaiser Bob. Powers will sit just like Potter in a darkened room rubbing his clammy hands together while reading his Wikipedia biography and having no remorse for the fans that paid for season tickets.
I don't think RED was right about CS. He said CS would make a good coordinator. And I really don't think CS was that great at developing a defense that could defend B12 offenses. We got hammered too many times, and could not even stop Kansas when it counted last year. IDH you are suffering from premature speculation disorder re: Shaka. He, unlike CS, did well his first year, but not his second. We won't know if he is incompetent like CS until Shaka has three sub standard years in a row like CS did.
