Game Managment?

[CowboyBlog]

Here is something that stings a little bit.

Remember the Time out we wasted on 3rd and 15 to set up a field goal. (Not only did we waste the time out, we ran the game clock down before bledsoe signaled for the TO)


Washington got the bal with 1:48 on the game clock. We only had two time outs. If we would have had three and we didn't waste 14 seconds on a non-punt return, we would have got the ball back with 1:38 on the clock.

Instead we got the ball on our 20 with :36 seconds left and came up about 30 yards short of field goal range.


That time out would have been huge, among other things.

 

[big dog cowboy]

As I just mentioned in another thread. BP got outcoached the last 5 minutes.

 

[TheHustler]

At that point is was 10-0 about to be 13-0, we wanted to run down the clock.

 

[CowboyBlog]

At that point is was 10-0 about to be 13-0, we wanted to run down the clock.

yea, but did you have to use a time out to run a play to set you up for the field goal.

 

[AdamJT13]

Maybe Parcells called timeout do discuss whether they should be agressive and maybe not score or be conservative and make it a two-touchdown game.

There's no reason to conserve timeouts when you have three remaining with a 10-point lead and less than seven minute to play. If you ascribe to that, you'd never call a timeout until the final two or three minutes. Sometimes, you have to call a timeout at other points in the game.

 

[CowboyBlog]

Maybe Parcells called timeout do discuss whether they should be agressive and maybe not score or be conservative and make it a two-touchdown game.

There's no reason to conserve timeouts when you have three remaining with a 10-point lead and less than seven minute to play. If you ascribe to that, you'd never call a timeout until the final two or three minutes. Sometimes, you have to call a timeout at other points in the game.

Maybe your coaching style is different, but you never waste time outs. I cant think of a better teaching situation than tonight.

 

[vicjagger]

Doesn't all this complaining and blaming the play-calling for the loss sound familiar?

Hint: S.D.

 

[AdamJT13]

Maybe your coaching style is different, but you never waste time outs.

It wasn't wasted. It was a critical part of the game, we were in a critical part of the field, and we had a 10-point lead. That IS when you call a timeout.

A wasted timeout is like the one we used on our very first possession of the game. When you're facing a third down at your opponent's 22-yard line late in the fourth quarter, that's NOT a wasted timeout.