One thing that got a little overlooked because of all the other issues was how bad the 2 minute drive before halftime was. I remember saying “ok, you’ve got 3 timeouts, 2 minutes, and you’re at midfield. ZERO reason for the clock to become an issue.”
Well, a couple dive calls to Jacobs later accompanied with some holding penalties and the time was cut in half, still at midfield.
They were fortunately able to get a couple long plays to salvage the drive and get 3, but they should have just been able to run their offense and had no issues.
MLF is never going to change. It’s the same mistakes season after season with no learning from the same mistakes.