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Right, think about all the times when a team has the ball and a one-score lead at the end of the game right before the two-minute warning. If the defense (losing team) is out of timeouts, all the offense has to is get a first down and the defense can't stop the clock again, Three consecutive knees and game over.
In my head live I actually was thinking we couldn't run it all the way out and the Skins might have a few to several seconds or so after we kicked the FG -- so we'd have to kick off, but there's no way they could get in FG range with no timeouts. But I guess we could have run it all the way out, which makes scoring there even more inexcusable.
BTW I've seen a few people around mention the opening week Giants snafu when Eli told the RB not to score. But that was totally different because they couldn't run it all the way out anyway, and they already had a FG lead. So the TD would have made it a two-score lead, which is basically insurmountable in a minute or so. In our game the first concern was to make them burn their timeouts and eat as much clock as possible before you score so they have no time to do anything. If Lucky Whitehead hadn't saved Garrett's ass and we'd lost that game in overtime, it would have been truly an almost impossible loss.
Red is seriously the most incompetent clock manager I've ever seen. Has to be the worst in the modern football era.
In my head live I actually was thinking we couldn't run it all the way out and the Skins might have a few to several seconds or so after we kicked the FG -- so we'd have to kick off, but there's no way they could get in FG range with no timeouts. But I guess we could have run it all the way out, which makes scoring there even more inexcusable.
BTW I've seen a few people around mention the opening week Giants snafu when Eli told the RB not to score. But that was totally different because they couldn't run it all the way out anyway, and they already had a FG lead. So the TD would have made it a two-score lead, which is basically insurmountable in a minute or so. In our game the first concern was to make them burn their timeouts and eat as much clock as possible before you score so they have no time to do anything. If Lucky Whitehead hadn't saved Garrett's ass and we'd lost that game in overtime, it would have been truly an almost impossible loss.
Red is seriously the most incompetent clock manager I've ever seen. Has to be the worst in the modern football era.
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