Numark3 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 What is going on there? A surprising amount of NFL coaches cannot manage the clock. Yet a college student can make a hierarchy of when to call a timeout at exact moments of a game to save the most clock. Him failing to call a TO with less than 40 seconds to go after a run was crazy. Bills need to hire a time management guy to call timeouts at the end of a game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackOrton Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 It's all part of the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rochesterfan Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 What is going on there? A surprising amount of NFL coaches cannot manage the clock. Yet a college student can make a hierarchy of when to call a timeout at exact moments of a game to save the most clock. Him failing to call a TO with less than 40 seconds to go after a run was crazy. Bills need to hire a time management guy to call timeouts at the end of a game Disagree - everyone was close and they got the play off in under 13 seconds. The QB on 2 straight plays needs to either throw it away or try to fit it someplace- the QB screwed up by running the ball when we need to pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 TERRIBLE. just terrible use of timeouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numark3 Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) Disagree - everyone was close and they got the play off in under 13 seconds. The QB on 2 straight plays needs to either throw it away or try to fit it someplace- the QB screwed up by running the ball when we need to pass. 13 seconds in the last 40 seconds is a ton! You want to use your timeouts to save as many seconds as possible. Saving a TO and hoping to save more than 13 seconds is insane. You call the TO there and save 13 seconds. Essentially anytime the clock stops inbounds in that position of the field you need to use your TO (not your last one). It isn't a crazy concept and thinking a different situation would have unfolded that would save more time than that is unlikely Edited September 17, 2017 by Crayola64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QCity Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Time out management was terrible. The TO taken outside of 2 min after he let ~30 sec run off the clock was brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Disagree - everyone was close and they got the play off in under 13 seconds. The QB on 2 straight plays needs to either throw it away or try to fit it someplace- the QB screwed up by running the ball when we need to pass. Great minds think alike. I posted this on another thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaviorPeterman Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 There were some horrible coaching decisions in this game but I give McDermott the benefit of the doubt as a rookie head coach in his 2nd NFL game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangarang Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) That's the Andy Reid school of clock management Edited September 17, 2017 by Bangarang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numark3 Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 There were some horrible coaching decisions in this game but I give McDermott the benefit of the doubt as a rookie head coach in his 2nd NFL game. Lots of good veteran coaches (Reid) can't manage the clock, but I hope he learns. There were some issues today with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJBobby Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 I am willing to let McD slide a bit on clock management. His first time in that seat. However like he demands from players learn from your mistakes. And today there were mistakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numark3 Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 I still don't get why teams don't invest on delegating the TO control to save time at the end of a game to someone other than the HC (who has enough to worry about than figuring out the best time to call one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulles Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Time out management was terrible. The TO taken outside of 2 min after he let ~30 sec run off the clock was brutal.I agree that he blew it at 43 seconds, but the defensive timeout was about strategy. He and Frazier wanted to see the alignment before calling the timeout. This is not the second coming of Rex.Time out management was terrible. The TO taken outside of 2 min after he let ~30 sec run off the clock was brutal.If you manage the clock well, you don't need those seconds. There are more ways to manage the clock in offense, which we didn't use. Anyway...We didn't run out of time. We ran out of yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisplacedBillsFan Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Not sure I agree. If Zay catches that ball they need the TO they had left or else the clock would have expired. Even with the extra 13 seconds on the clock that had previously run off, they don't get down there and set up on time to spike it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numark3 Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) Yea the TO before the 2 min is excusable because it wasn't to conserve time Not sure I agree. If Zay catches that ball they need the TO they had left or else the clock would have expired. Even with the extra 13 seconds on the clock that had previously run off, they don't get down there and set up on time to spike it. We had 2 timeouts at the time. It obviously changes how the next timeout would have been used. Edited September 17, 2017 by Crayola64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 I agree that he blew it at 43 seconds, but the defensive timeout was about strategy. He and Frazier wanted to see the alignment before calling the timeout. This is not the second coming of Rex. Yep. It was the same thing Rivera did. Both were incredibly important plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisplacedBillsFan Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Time out management was terrible. The TO taken outside of 2 min after he let ~30 sec run off the clock was brutal. I'm pretty sure that was because of what the offense looked like compared to the D we had called and not that he suddenly realized he should save time after wasting 30 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmart128 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Proper clock management puts us in position to win. Sean put us in position to win. If Zay did catch that and got tackled in field of play at 1 yard line then that timeout would have been very useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisplacedBillsFan Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) Yea the TO before the 2 min is excusable because it wasn't to conserve time We had 2 timeouts at the time. It obviously changes how the next timeout would have been used. I just don't agree it was an issue as we didn't run out of time. We ran out of downs. Edited September 17, 2017 by DisplacedBillsFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Proper clock management puts us in position to win. Sean put us in position to win. If Zay did catch that and got tackled in field of play at 1 yard line then that timeout would have been very useful They had a TO left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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