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[conner01]

Just how many clock management gaffes has MM had this year. How many have other HC have.

I think many times this is overblown by fans.
Easy from a fans couch, chair, bed, bar stool or how ever one watches it. Easy,for,them,to say amd in hindsoght most,of the time.

Be on the sideline in the heat of the moment with 50 things going on. And you need to decide what is best. Most of the time they get it right.
No one ever says…hey great clock management until they think it is an issue.

Yes there are issues at times, but also play calls at those times are worse.

Name the gaffes with clock management, and did any really cost us any games. Many other factors involved.

I think sometimes we have fans who think only our guys make mistakes. MM is not t the best at clock management but lots of other HC’s aren’t either. Not sure why there’s not a guy just to help with clock, replay calls and such.
So much is happening during a game and especially for a HC who is also calling plays

 

[Creeper]

Just how many clock management gaffes has MM had this year. How many have other HC have.

I think many times this is overblown by fans.
Easy from a fans couch, chair, bed, bar stool or how ever one watches it. Easy,for,them,to say amd in hindsoght most,of the time.

Be on the sideline in the heat of the moment with 50 things going on. And you need to decide what is best. Most of the time they get it right.
No one ever says…hey great clock management until they think it is an issue.

Yes there are issues at times, but also play calls at those times are worse.

Name the gaffes with clock management, and did any really cost us any games. Many other factors involved.

I think it depends on personal strategy. For me, in those situations I run the football. Make them burn their Time Outs and then run the clock down as much as possible. Of course it depends on how many time outs they have, where I am on the field, and how much time is left. But in that situation, the Lions have 1 TO left and the 2 minute warning. The Cowboys have the ball on the Lions 29 yards line. There I might throw the football hoping to get the ball inside the 20. Run or pass the clock probably runs down to the 2 minute warning. The Cowboys ran it for 7 yards, but there was that bogus tripping call on Dallas which move the ball back to the Lions 44 yard line. Dak throw to CeeDee for 11 yards on 1st down and the Cowboys are back to the Lions 33. The Lions call their last time out with 1:55 left on the clock. Now it is 2nd and 14. Dallas chose to throw again instead of running the ball to keep the clock running. That play took only 6 more seconds off the clock. Now there is 1:49 left and Dallas is still on the 33. Had they run it even for no gain, they run 39 seconds off the clock and it is 1:10 left instead of 1:49. Now it is 3rd down. The Cowboys should run it again. Let's say the play takes 5 more seconds and takes the clock down to 1:05. But the Cowboys can run another 40 seconds off the clock and take a TO before the next play. Now there is 25 seconds left in the game with the Cowboys still on the 33. Now they have a choice to go for it burning another 5 seconds. Or kick a 50 yard FG. Either way there is only 20 seconds left in the game. The problem is, if they miss the Lions get the ball at their own 40. If the Cowboys hit the FG they kick off and the Lions get it on their 25 with 20 seconds left. Either way, the Lions have little chance of scoring with no time outs and 20 seconds left.

Of course if the Cowboys were only up by 3 points, this strategy might have changed because a FG by Detroit ties the game. But what Dallas did was an awful mistake, as was the officials calling tripping on Hendershot. Even if they called holding it is a 10 yard penalty instead of 15. That 5 yards may have changed McCarthy's strategy after the first down completion to CeeDee. 2nd and 9 from the 28 making it a 45 yard FG could have caused MM to run it on second down.

Not to beat a dead horse, but Dak has to share some blame there too. The play was low percentage as it was. Dak should have tried to eke out whatever yards he could on the ground. Even if he takes a 1 yard loss he has to keep the clock running. That 2pt conversions debacle would never have occurred had they just run the football on that 2nd down play.

 

[blueblood70]

Just how many clock management gaffes has MM had this year. How many have other HC have.

I think many times this is overblown by fans.
Easy from a fans couch, chair, bed, bar stool or how ever one watches it. Easy,for,them,to say amd in hindsoght most,of the time.

Be on the sideline in the heat of the moment with 50 things going on. And you need to decide what is best. Most of the time they get it right.
No one ever says…hey great clock management until they think it is an issue.

Yes there are issues at times, but also play calls at those times are worse.

Name the gaffes with clock management, and did any really cost us any games. Many other factors involved.

100

 

[Blackrain]

My guess is that MM trusts the passing game to move the chains more than he trusts the running game.

I think you're right Runny. And at this point he may be right.

But we need high percentage throws little pic plays like everyone else uses to move the chains.

This trying to go for the kill shot all the time is just stopping the clock and creating a problem

 

[Blackrain]

They were throwing the ball because it became 1st and 25 on the bogus tripping call. The problem was Dak throwing it away on 2nd down instead of a quick high percentage throw that would keep the clock moving.

Exactly a screen pass or a little pic play something that was ultra high percentage that you could get five or eight yards on and keep the clock moving.

 

[Blackspider214]

I will have you know I have hundreds of games on Madden under my belt and my clock management is impeccable

I honestly think coaches should step outside the boundaries and hire people solely as clock management specialists. This takes one less thing off their plate. Yeah, it sounds ridiculous as a premise but many people who play Madden, clock in thousands of hours and are experts at clock management. Yes, I know doing it live and doing it on a video game is totally different but I feel this gets lost on coaches because they have so many other in game responsibilities and it gets lost on them. Like when to use your timeouts and when to save them depending on the situation.I feel so many people who play Madden and watch countless games have a better grasp at clock management than so many of these coaches.