[bigzipguy]

Just got back from the game. People, I just do not know where to begin with this. Up 7 at the half. We go down and only get 3 to start the second half . Get the ball back. Get deep in BG territory AND WE RUN A TRICK PLAY ON THIRD AND 2 FROM THE FOUR YARD LINE!!!!!! Kennedy was having a great game. If you don't want to run straight adhead with him, even a pass play would have been better than another reverse.
Then late, we get the ball back again, up 13 at our own 20 and go 3 and outGoing into this game, I firmly believed that a win tonight, and we would have had an exellent chance to win the East. Now it is a very long shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GP1]

Up 7 at the half. We go down and only get 3 to start the second half .

bigzipguy captures exactly how to lose a football game. Some say 34 points(or whatever we had) is enought for the defense to win the game. I say there are never enough points and loses are almost 100% of the time the result of the offense not scoring enough points to win.

I only watched the scoring trend because I could not see the game. When we went from scoring touchdowns to fieldgoals, I knew the Zips were going to lose.

[skip-zip]

GP1...that was the thought among most of us....that we were not getting enough points to put them away. Every time we kicked a field goal, I remember saying to myself that we really needed a TD. BUT, the theory that the offense should take the blame for every loss because they did not score enough really isn't fair. Losses are team losses. Every unit on this team could surely point to something today that could have changed the game if done better.

[ZachTheZip]

Akron has the wrong mindset to win games. As soon as they get some kind of lead, they go ultra-conservative until they are forced to act. It almost always lets the other team back into the game and more often than not it backfires and we lose a game we should have won. It's a losing mentality that a lead, no matter how small, is so precious that we shouldn't try anything that might change the score.

I don't care if we're up by 1 point or 21 points, you keep extending the lead. It's not bad sportsmanship, it's winning. Until the playcallers figure this out, we'll always see games we should have won slip through our fingers.