McCarthy is Awful

[rambo2]

Pee-wee level Clock management

Well, at least they didn't give the ball back to the Chargers and they won.

 

[Frosty]

No, what McCarthy did was worse. He wasted like 50 seconds and setup a 56 yard FG for a kicker going through issues. Garrett iced a pro bowl caliber kicker back then and the kick wasn’t 56 yards if I’m not mistaken.

Can people just enjoy a win....geeeze everyone is calling for MM head... Dak is not elite and Zeke is overrated and they just won a game 15min ago......Haters are gonna Hate

 

[Soth]

Pee-wee level Clock management

Agree 100%.

 

[rambo2]

We won the game, but McCarthy was coaching like a loser.

I think that more of the fans are losers with their negative talk even after a big win.

 

[baltcowboy]

Pee-wee level Clock management

Don’t worry. Paper Boy will be coaching next season.

 

[Mk2_Cowboys]

That was a Jason Garrett clapping monkey flashback . You can’t be a cowboys coach unless you have terrible clock management skills , it’s part of the interview process with Jerry .

 

[Cowboyluck]

We have 2 extra play we could have run, I wish we did but we didn’t. Could have had a fumble, sack, or an interception. We won. Be happy.

 

[noshame]

I'm beginning to see why Rogers could not tolerate this guy

 

[Plankton]

Bad on the clock, but got the W.

Can't have it both ways. A win is a win.

Sure you can. It's entirely possible to get a good result from a bad process. It's just not optimal to consistent performance.

The clock management at the end was poor, but fortunately for McCarthy, Zuerlein bailed him out.

 

[J817]

Can people just enjoy a win....geeeze everyone is calling for MM head... Dak is not elite and Zeke is overrated and they just won a game 15min ago......Haters are gonna Hate

This makes me grinch every time I see one of you type this. OK OK I’ll stop.

 

[Carson]

Could’ve been where Zuerlein was most comfortable

 

[heir]

It's really going to frost your balls when you realize that went exactly how he wanted it to. That's exactly the ending he wanted.

That's what he will say in the press conference at least. I also bet he will get testy to anyone who questions it this week.

 

[Kingofholland]

McCarthy managed the final 2 minutes horribly, but if you're the Chargers how do you lose on a last second field goal holding 3 timeouts? Just awful management on both sides.

 

[Diehardblues]

Difficult to see any improvement in time Mgmt with this HC. Might be worse. Kicker bailed him out today.

 

[CarolinaFathead]

McCarthy managed the final 2 minutes horribly, but if you're the Chargers how do you lose on a last second field goal holding 3 timeouts? Just awful management on both sides.

The bottom line is that you don’t want to be on defense with two minutes or less on the clock with the other team only needing a FG to win. That’s a horrible place to be for any NFL defense. With that in mind, we ended the game perfectly - winning as time expired.

 

[CowboysDrew]

Sure you can. It's entirely possible to get a good result from a bad process. It's just not optimal to consistent performance.

The clock management at the end was poor, but fortunately for McCarthy, Zuerlein bailed him out.

Fair enough.

I was being mildly hyperbolic but ok.

 

[MaineBoy]

We won.

No, not this time, dude. They won because the kicker got lucky - the same kicker who couldn’t make an extra point last game. Saying we won doesn’t excuse the galactically stupid coaching and clock management by these 2 morons MM and KM.

 

[ghst187]

I’m on the verge of being done with hope with MM.
Aaron Rodgers was right

 

[eternaljester81]

Pee-wee level Clock management

That was a big complaint they had in GB.

 

[CarolinaFathead]

Did Zuerlein bail him out or was this the designed outcome of the strategy the staff employed?

My initial reaction was much the same as most everyone else - I wanted to get closer BUT after finding stats indicating that NFL kickers make 61.9% of kicks from 50+ yards I think the staff’s strategy comes into more clarity here.

1. You run in a situation where a run is generally not expected hoping for the big gain and a shorter FG.

2. If you get the big gain then you play for the kick from that point on.

3. If the run gets stuffed you force SD to take TO and then run whatever play you want to advance the ball for a shorter kick. This has the benefit of making SD burn a TO at the expense of giving us the time to construct a more elaborate scheme to get closer.

4. If the run gets stuffed and SD doesn’t call a TO then milk the clock and rely on your kicker and a 61.9% chance of winning the game as time expires.

lol, come on..

this is not a bad strategy. If anything it’s ballsy. It might not be how most of us would have played this, because we don’t have the balls, but it wasn’t conceived in the mind of an imbecile either.