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Purdue 34, Illinois 31 OT POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1236902" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>Ask people who play golf. Hitting it dead straight is not always as easy as a more natural draw or fade. Kicking field goals is similar to a golf stroke in a lot of ways. Expert free kick takers in soccer also usually prefer it slightly off center for similar reasons.</p><p></p><p>As I recall, Lovie's Bears used to often run a dive into the line to put big field goals on the right hash for Robbie Gould. </p><p></p><p>Lovie took his first time out after a first down a couple plays earlier (a smart move with an inexperienced QB IMO). They then ran a pass and immediately ran to the line and followed it up with a run play to the left hashmark. Clearly that sequence was dialed up during the timeout. "If you go down inbounds, hurry to the line and run X play".</p><p></p><p>We don't know either of these things for sure, but if the facts in Lovie's head were "my kicker likes it on the left hash and I have a young, inexperienced QB who wasn't planning to play today and who I don't fully trust to manage difficult ticking clock situations" he handled the situation to perfection.</p><p></p><p>If McLaughlin wanted a center-cut kick, there was time for timeout-dive-timeout and Lovie made a mistake. But we have no reason to assume that and every reason to believe his decisions were intentional, based on the sequence of events.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1236902, member: 527609"] Ask people who play golf. Hitting it dead straight is not always as easy as a more natural draw or fade. Kicking field goals is similar to a golf stroke in a lot of ways. Expert free kick takers in soccer also usually prefer it slightly off center for similar reasons. As I recall, Lovie's Bears used to often run a dive into the line to put big field goals on the right hash for Robbie Gould. Lovie took his first time out after a first down a couple plays earlier (a smart move with an inexperienced QB IMO). They then ran a pass and immediately ran to the line and followed it up with a run play to the left hashmark. Clearly that sequence was dialed up during the timeout. "If you go down inbounds, hurry to the line and run X play". We don't know either of these things for sure, but if the facts in Lovie's head were "my kicker likes it on the left hash and I have a young, inexperienced QB who wasn't planning to play today and who I don't fully trust to manage difficult ticking clock situations" he handled the situation to perfection. If McLaughlin wanted a center-cut kick, there was time for timeout-dive-timeout and Lovie made a mistake. But we have no reason to assume that and every reason to believe his decisions were intentional, based on the sequence of events. [/QUOTE]
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