[lex24]

teejers is right in his observation that the plays that kept the drive going were not necessarily "Vintage Shaw"; but the higher level strategy of killing the clock with a long, concerted drive and keeping the ball out of the opponent's hands was definitely "Vintage Shaw".

There were a couple of things that came to mind during the Drive To End The Game.

- During the AL years, the pattern actually was pretty similar near the end of games - keep running unless you got into 3rd and long.  However, I do think the throws that Mills made were a lot harder than Spider 2 Y Banana (and IMO more impressive).

- It really did seem that on average UW didn't have a good answer for our running attack, and so I was hoping to see a drive where we ran power every time until a UW Dlineman decided to sub himself out.

- The commentators noted that we were going 3-TE again.  They seemed to like that.  Maybe that had a lot to do with the recent running success?  There were TE names in that participation log I hadn't recognized much.

They were down at least 3 wideouts.  Not sure if Higgins also got hurt.  That explains going with the three TE’s perhaps.

[lex24]

teejers is right in his observation that the plays that kept the drive going were not necessarily "Vintage Shaw"; but the higher level strategy of killing the clock with a long, concerted drive and keeping the ball out of the opponent's hands was definitely "Vintage Shaw".

There were a couple of things that came to mind during the Drive To End The Game.

- During the AL years, the pattern actually was pretty similar near the end of games - keep running unless you got into 3rd and long.  However, I do think the throws that Mills made were a lot harder than Spider 2 Y Banana (and IMO more impressive).

- It really did seem that on average UW didn't have a good answer for our running attack, and so I was hoping to see a drive where we ran power every time until a UW Dlineman decided to sub himself out.

- The commentators noted that we were going 3-TE again.  They seemed to like that.  Maybe that had a lot to do with the recent running success?  There were TE names in that participation log I hadn't recognized much.

They were down at least 3 wideouts.  Not sure if Higgins also got hurt.  That explains going with the three TE’s perhaps.