Third down and two. Second Half. Down by seven. On the road. Against a really good defense.
I GOT IT!
Let's let our best wide receiver line up at quarterback and try to convert.
Better yet, let's take the ball out of our Heisman candidate quarterback's hands and also take our best wide receiver out of the receiving corps and see if he can run this offense better than the best quarterback in the Big 12 can?
Why the hell not?
Does that sound stupid to any of you? This is pretty much divine evidence into the recent argument the anonymous poster on Mark's blog started, concerning Pinkel's wisdom in play calling.
This particular candidate for "worst play call of the season" wound up being intercepted, followed promptly by an Oklahoma scoring drive.
Comparing this to baseball. This is like Albert Pujols at the plate, and Yadier Molina on second. Instead of pinch running Kerry Robinson for an extremely slow Yadi, LaRussa would instead elect to leave Yadi on second and pinch hit Robinson for Pujols.
That's pretty much what this is like. Take a talented receiver (baserunner) and let him play quarterback (pinch hit) instead of doing something he actually excels at.
If this type of stupidity happened in baseball, and you had time in between action to analyze it....you'd think Gary Pinkel is just as frustrating as I think he is.
Currently: Oklahoma 23, Mizzou 10
UPDATE
Missouri just took a one point lead on a four yard run. Chase Daniel is starting to lock in here in the second half. This could be an exciting half of football. You needed faith to think the Tigers could be leading in the second half in Norman.
I'm heading to the BrewCo to catch the end of this one. Go Tigers!
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Say what you want about Pinkel but if Pig Brown intercepts that ball in the end zone (it was right in his hands) we have the ball on the 20 and the lead in the fourth quarter. You have to make those plays if you expect to beat good teams. It all went to hell after that drop.
The point totals for Mizzou in all six of their games are 40,38,52,38,41,and 31 for an average of 40 points per game. I don't think playcalling is very much of a problem when a team is putting up those kind of numbers. Don't get me wrong, the Maclin pass was a bad play call in that particular situation, but on the whole Pinkel's playcalling has been pretty damn good.
Kerry Robinson was awful and having him on the team is a bad play call.
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