Why is Clock Management So Hard?

[Motorola]

Bro, the announcers were talking about it and Collisworth was saying he totally didnt understand it. I aint just making this up out of thin air.

Hey about taking part in the discussion and not acting like a dick, think you can do that?

Didn't see the response - no care too.
I've had that CZer on 'ignore' status for awhile.

 

[Blackspider214]

Coaches need to play more madden and get their clock management down.

I get standing on a sideline during a game is different than sitting in front of a console but man, Madden is where I learned clock management and how to play the clock to your favor and how to use timeouts. Harbaugh left the game with one timeout left. Absolutely pathetic.

I feel every team could hire these Madden players for the sole job of managing the clock and would be better off. Let them sit up in the booth and make the calls down to the coaches on the field.

How do these coaches who have football in their blood and doing it all their lives have no idea how to manage a clock? Baffling.

 

[Blackspider214]

I thought Mike looked like a genius from what I witnessed all day yesterday. From McDaniels, to Vikes HC, to Haurbaugh. It was awful!

So many Dallas fans think we are the only one with clock management issues. I see this happen on all levels from high school to the pros. In fact, I think MM manages the clock better than a lot.

And the golden boy so many want, Sean Payton, is atrocious at clock management and situational playcalling.

 

[charron]

So many factors go into it. Was it taking the OC too long to get the play in? Wrong personnel group in to run the play they want? Personally i'd want 1 person responsible for the clock and time outs to help avoid such issues. I assume John was waiting on something and it was just taking too long, should have called the TO asap.

 

[1972COWBOY]

The game was maybe fixed by the Free Masons ?

 

[Reverend Conehead]

This dude's been doing an entire series on bad clock management. Yes, Coach McCarthy has been featured.

The most recent one is about the Bengals/Ravens game. My best guess is that it's just way harder to manage the clock when you're actually under the gun in a real game. But isn't this something that they practice? Don't they do drills on it in training camp? Maybe someone such as an assistant coach, or even some kind of observer, could give them the scenario and keep track of the clock. It would be like:

"You're down by 4 points and there's a minute and 37 seconds left. You get the ball on your own 12 yard line. You have two timeouts."

Maybe they even have an actual clock installed on the practice field. They could run scenarios like that and be evaluated on how well the coach handled the clock. Maybe even do it during a scrimmage. We practice that in the scrimmage for the Cowboys handling the clock, and then as a courtesy, we help the other team practice it. Some others mentioned practicing it in Madden. That probably wouldn't hurt. Do that, but I would also actually practice it in training camp with a real team, and then during a scrimmage would be even better.

Here's that dude's video on the topic.

 

[Cmac]

Brain-lock and arrogance