Why was McDermott calling timeouts at the end of the first half?

[Doc Brown]

8 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Yes, that is ridiculous. But you also must see the irony in saying "that wasnt mcDermott's fault. Blame the Defense" regardless 

I got that but it gets a little cloudy because McDermott has a defensive background but isn't calling the defense.  His job is to look at the game situation and decide when to challenge, use time outs, go for it on 4th down, FG, punt, etc.....  In this case I guess he had faith in the players and Babbich to get a stop on 3rd down which they had been pretty good at up to that point in the game.  New England had all their time outs left and were going to score regardless if they executed.  He was just trying to give the offense a chance to put up points before the half.

[Simon]

1 minute ago, Yobogoya! said:

I do appreciate the assertiveness of wanting the ball to score points again before the half, but you've got to wait until you've got a couple stops.

 

This.

I didn't hate that he did it, but I thought he should have at least waited until after the first down play to get a better idea of where they were at.

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

This is just McD playing one dimensional chess.

[Thurman#1]

1 hour ago, Robert Paulson said:

It seems like he used our timeouts instead of making NE use theirs. We weren't going to 3 N Out them and get the ball back with a minute left. he would have knelt down if we did anyways. 

 

We helped them get into field goal position to kick the tying points. 

 

is their a rational I am missing?

 

 

Would've worked out if they'd stopped them there.

 

The first two made sense, but they made the first down. I assume that the one after that came because in some way we needed it to communicate or Sean saw something he didn't like. That third one didn't make sense in terms of trying to get us another chance.

[Bob Chandler's Hands]

He needed to get them to 2nd down and long or 3rd down to start calling Time outs. Once they got the first down after the first time out, stop calling them and make NE call theirs. If you happen to get a takeaway, great, you still have two timeouts. If there is a big negative play, great, then call a timeout. Otherwise make them go fast and use their timeouts. 

[Thurman#1]

1 hour ago, djp14150 said:

You can’t make mistakes. It came down to….

 

1. first quarter fumble, thry couldn’t do something in recovery.

2. FG gift fumble

3. Allen red zone INT

4 missed KO fumble recovery

 

defense blew a few plays on 3rd down and that 1st and 25 series

 

 

 

Also, third and three at the Pats ten. Zone read to Ty Johnson, Allen keeps the ball, which was the wrong read. Ty Johnson would probably have scored. Allen almost always makes the right decision there. He didn't that time. (Thanks to Joe Marino for these two.) Yeesh!! That was the play he was stopped and flipped to Shakir for the loss.

 

Plus Shakir's offensive pass interference call that changed it from third and one to second and 13 inside the Pats 10. Man!

 

Plus, eleven fricking penalties enforced. Eleven!!!! Awful.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Thurman#1