I keep hearing it as conservative, or playing not to lose. I don't believe that is correct. You have to play the game for what it is. Nobody is going to constantly take shots in our league. You get up a few scores late, you pound the rock, and eat up clock. Bama, lsu, all the dominant teams do this. They just move the chains a few more times.
Conservative I can see, but what we had Saturday was for worse. 16/28 passing with a long pass of 17 yards, 35 rushing attempts avg 3.1 yards per carry. 221 total yards. 4-14 on third down all this against 35th ranked defense. I don't see how you can give any part of the team a pass for Saturday. Even loosing our playmakers we still have the firepower to be able to hang 40+ on them and like has been said many times we played not to lose instead of playing to win. The Ala, LSU when their ruining out the clock they are still moving the ball when it stops working they make adjustments unlike us we keep doing the same thing hoping we'll get different results