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Originally Posted by worth
I thought the stadium as a whole did really well with the noise on defence and generally being quiet on Offence. If you compare te two situations, Offence was much much quieter than defence was. It was rocking. I agree and think the fans have come a long way in knowing when to cheer and when not to cheer. I think Saturdays game was an awesome job of cheering by the fans.
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I was at the game too, and the noise on defense was very loud, and the noise on offense was VERY quiet relatively. At least in section P, the crowd did not take even one BC offensive play off in terms of being loud. There was not a single play by the stamps on offense where the crowd was as loud as even the quietest BC offensive play.
The crowd was suberb, very different than the regular season games, where the crowd is fairly quiet until a big play happens.
As far as the kneeing/throwing out of bounds goes, the play calls on first and second down were the problem, not the one on third down. Instead of kneeling so quickly on first and second down, all the stamps had to do was run three to four seconds off of the clock on each play, which easily could be done with a handoff to the running back, who just runs into the line. If the stamps do that, the possibly could kneel on third down, or throw it out of bounds EASILY.
Burris' first down scramble ended with the clock showing 1:08, which means that they have to snap the ball at 49 seconds left, if the play takes 4 seconds, the clock stops at 45 seconds for second down. The ball should then have been snapped at 26 seconds, another four second play means that the clock stops at 22 seconds, meaning third down can be snapped with 3 seconds left, which is an easy kneel, or an easy long toss out of bounds.
But the stamps could have taken a time count penalty on each play as well to take off an extra second off the clock before each play, in fact, if the stamps just take the time count penalty instead of calling a timeout before third down, that last second comes off the clock on third down.
But there was also bad coaching and game management for the Lions as well in the last couple minutes. For example, why in the world did the BC returner run the missed FG attempt by DeAngelis out of the end zone with ~2:00 left? Calgary was up by 4, giving up the single point make it a five point game - i.e. no difference at all. So instead of taking the ball at the 35, they start their drive in which they need a touchdown on their own 13.
Also, BC giving up the safety in the first half when the line of scrimmage was the 18 yard line may have ended up costing them as well. Calgary ran back the free kick to a point where they would have likely ended up with the ball after a punt (around midfield) anyway. If those two points are taken off the board (and everything else stays the same), BC has a chance to kick a 49 yard field goal on the last play of the game to win the game.