NFL Coaches and Time Management (1 Viewer)

[ceo3west]

Philly has the ball 1st & goal with 1:45 left in the half, Redskins have 3 time outs. First play is a run, gain of 1. Washington doesn't call timeout, clock runs 30 seconds. Basically same thing happens on 2nd down. Isn't it common sense that you would use your timeouts since Philly has a max of 4 plays left in the drive? Why wouldn't you give your offense about 1:20 left to try for a FG before the half?

And these guys are paid millions to run the the team? What a joke.

 

[CaptainHook]

i am equally shocked by how bad they are. seems like an obvious position to give to some stat nerd who can totally break it down.

 

[Babu Bhatt2]

Philly has the ball 1st & goal with 1:45 left in the half, Redskins have 3 time outs. First play is a run, gain of 1. Washington doesn't call timeout, clock runs 30 seconds. Basically same thing happens on 2nd down. Isn't it common sense that you would use your timeouts since Philly has a max of 4 plays left in the drive? Why wouldn't you give your offense about 1:20 left to try for a FG before the half?And these guys are paid millions to run the the team? What a joke.

It turned out not to be a bad move, because the Eagles couldn't manage their play clock.

 

[ceo3west]

Philly has the ball 1st & goal with 1:45 left in the half, Redskins have 3 time outs. First play is a run, gain of 1. Washington doesn't call timeout, clock runs 30 seconds. Basically same thing happens on 2nd down. Isn't it common sense that you would use your timeouts since Philly has a max of 4 plays left in the drive? Why wouldn't you give your offense about 1:20 left to try for a FG before the half?And these guys are paid millions to run the the team? What a joke.

It turned out not to be a bad move, because the Eagles couldn't manage their play clock.

99% of the time, when a team has the ball 1st & goal at 2 minutes left, they are not going to mismanage the game clock. This was not the right decision by the skins.

 

[Joe Summer]

Philly has the ball 1st & goal with 1:45 left in the half, Redskins have 3 time outs. First play is a run, gain of 1. Washington doesn't call timeout, clock runs 30 seconds. Basically same thing happens on 2nd down. Isn't it common sense that you would use your timeouts since Philly has a max of 4 plays left in the drive? Why wouldn't you give your offense about 1:20 left to try for a FG before the half?And these guys are paid millions to run the the team? What a joke.

It turned out not to be a bad move, because the Eagles couldn't manage their play clock.

That's debatable. Philly got a penalty because they were slow to return from their own timeout, so they might have got the same penalty if Washington had called the timeout.

 

[Babu Bhatt2]

Philly has the ball 1st & goal with 1:45 left in the half, Redskins have 3 time outs. First play is a run, gain of 1. Washington doesn't call timeout, clock runs 30 seconds. Basically same thing happens on 2nd down. Isn't it common sense that you would use your timeouts since Philly has a max of 4 plays left in the drive? Why wouldn't you give your offense about 1:20 left to try for a FG before the half?And these guys are paid millions to run the the team? What a joke.

It turned out not to be a bad move, because the Eagles couldn't manage their play clock.

That's debatable. Philly got a penalty because they were slow to return from their own timeout, so they might have got the same penalty if Washington had called the timeout.

If Washington had called the timeout, Philly would have called a timeout once the playclock got low. But because Philly had called the timeout originally, they could not call a second timeout.

 

[kardplayer]

Not sure right move is to call timeout. If you commit a defensive "auto-first down" penalty on 3rd down, there would be a lot more time and a fresh set of downs.

Given that most teams take a knee when they get the ball back with less than 2 minutes to go and average/bad field position, not sure what they gain by calling timeout - feels like the downside is worse than the upside.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Most of the time, managing the clock isn't a visible coaching skill, so they aren't paid to manage it well.

 

[Topes]

Philly has the ball 1st & goal with 1:45 left in the half, Redskins have 3 time outs. First play is a run, gain of 1. Washington doesn't call timeout, clock runs 30 seconds. Basically same thing happens on 2nd down. Isn't it common sense that you would use your timeouts since Philly has a max of 4 plays left in the drive? Why wouldn't you give your offense about 1:20 left to try for a FG before the half?And these guys are paid millions to run the the team? What a joke.

Well, by calling timeouts between Philly's offensive plays, Washington would be giving Philly more time to plan each play. Plus, Philly does not have a max of four plays left in the drive. Certain penalties (pass interference) could grant them a fresh set of downs.