MM clock management is the worst in the NFL

[JBS]

Lol

That game situation for buffalo was far more complex. They tried to do the right thing and get a first down to end regulation- they didn’t get it.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You let the clock run! If you want to burn a to after letting it run, go ahead

That’s fair. I remember at the time being uneasy and wanting them to call it.

Wasn’t it 15 seconds left when the Bears got it? Or was it more?

 

[rambo2]

That game situation for buffalo was far more complex. They tried to do the right thing and get a first down to end regulation- they didn’t get it.

Lol, the right thing was to run the ball and run out the clock and go into overtime.

 

[JBS]

Lol, the right thing was to run the ball and run out the clock and go into overtime.

You cant run it out. Houston had 3 timeouts. What are you talking about. Lolol. You don’t even know the game situation

 

[LovinItAll]

This guy is an absolute bone head when it comes to managing the clock. That display was a total embarrassment.

Perfect clock management against the Steelers. Your post is embarrassing.

 

[JBS]

Perfect clock management against the Steelers. Your post is embarrassing.

Perfect management lololol

 

[JBS]

If the Cowboys scored after calling TO. Steelers would have had 1 min and 1 timeout to tie the game with a fg. You guys are absolutely clueless in here

 

[Jarntt]

I will yell from the roof tops how inept and incompetent and horrendous McCarthy is with time management and it rears it's ugly head over and over and over. Sometimes it's blatant and inexcusable and sometimes it's more subtle. But I have no issue with last night. We wanted the ability to run or pass every single play. We needed a TD, not a FG and the TD and XP put us up 3, not 2 which is also big in determining how to manage the clock. When you need just a FG to win you run the clock down to nothing. We needed the ability to run it 3 times if we got to the 1 and we did get to the 1. We needed the ability to run it after the Luepke reception if we wanted or at least to make Pitt think we might and depending on how that play went would determine what we do after that play. Plus after that Luepke play, the odds shifted from them to us so I wanted us to be level headed and think about what we were going to do. The fumble made us pass the last two plays which is part of what left more time on the clock, but we needed time to run 3 QB sneaks if we had to (and we should have). We also wanted the offense to settle down and not feel like they were rushing or out of control because I don't like this offense's chances as much when we are rushing. We needed to get in the end zone and whether we left 1 or 30 seconds on the clock wasn't as important as it usually is. The second TO: you could say you knew you were throwing after the fumble so you should run clock, but that allows Pitt to not worry about the run so you don't want to do that either, so I am good with that TO also to re-group and decide what we wanted to do. Then the 3rd TO was because Tolbert was banged up and would have had to come out of the game and guess who stayed in because of the TO and caught the winning TD?

The poor time management was when Pittsburgh called that TO before the TD. If they had that they could have attempted a pass up the middle, called a TO and tried a long FG.

 

[rambo2]

You cant run it out. Houston had 3 timeouts. What are you talking about. Lolol. You don’t even know the game situation

Make them use their timeouts.

 

[Ranching]

Dak hiked that run play way too early…

That was on MM, a QB doesn't want to disrupt the rhythm and have a linemen jump. But, that's just common sense.

 

[Kevinicus]

Did you see what happened the 2 times they tried to hurry up the play before. One an INT, the other a sack fumble.
MM did the right thing. Slow it down, make sure you get the right plays called.

Then you let time run before you call the timeout. Or...let Pittsburg use their timeout.

MM objectively handled the clock terribly.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I don’t know how the team handles reviewing close calls on the field but MM has got to be one of the worst when deciding to either challenge or not challenge a call.

 

[Kevinicus]

Perfect clock management against the Steelers. Your post is embarrassing.

JBS is 100% correct. It was awful clock management.

 

[jazzcat22]

Then you let time run before you call the timeout. Or...let Pittsburg use their timeout.

MM objectively handled the clock terribly.

No, as anything can still happen. What if they let the time run down to only have a few plays left. Then something happens, and he needs to scramble. Therefore only having 1 play.
We seen the fumble, so a sack or a scramble could have been disaster.

 

[jazzcat22]

JBS is 100% correct. It was awful clock management.

No it was not.

 

[JohnsKey19]

I don’t know how the team handles reviewing close calls on the field but MM has got to be one of the worst when deciding to either challenge or not challenge a call.

It's the entire operation. Who is feeding him the advice from the booth? It should be pretty easy for them to relay the message, "Hey Mike you have no chance to get this overturned"

 

[Kevinicus]

No, as anything can still happen. What if they let the time run down to only have a few plays left. Then something happens, and he needs to scramble. Therefore only having 1 play.
We seen the fumble, so a sack or a scramble could have been disaster.

Dallas had 3 timeouts when all of this started. They had full control to stop the clock if necessary.

You don't have to completely drain the clock, but you need to kill a decent chunk of it.

They were at the 4, not the 40.

 

[Kevinicus]

No it was not.

Yes it was. There's no excuse for how it was handled. They got lucky.

 

[aikemirv]

If the Cowboys scored after calling TO. Steelers would have had 1 min and 1 timeout to tie the game with a fg. You guys are absolutely clueless in here

Exactly - that's the whole point- what if you scored the next play? They could have let the clock run to 30 and call a timeout. Then worst case happens is Steelers get the ball with 25 seconds. We bundled the next 4 downs so bad that the Steelers ended up getting the ball with 15 seconds but that does not make the idiocy correct!

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

It's the entire operation. Who is feeding him the advice from the booth? It should be pretty easy for them to relay the message, "Hey Mike you have no chance to get this overturned"

Agreed. We have to be the worst at it in the league.