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anyone disappointed about the time management at the end of the 4th?


Leonard Washington

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Worry because we could have easily gotten closer and maybe even score a TD.

Once we got within the 30 with 30 seconds left we should have called a timeout. With 30 seconds we have plenty of time to get 3-4 good passes in and possibly get closer to the end zone.

Instead we flopped around and managed to get lucky by getting back to the 30 despite the stupid penalties with just a couple of ticks left on the clock to hit the tieing FG.

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The coaches' inability to manage the clock is going to cost us a game soon if they don't get their act together. And then this board will howl.

Well it cost us games last year. I'm not denying that.

However, I think this clock management had more to do with having a bunch of kids in there (minus Dyson).

Either way, we'll see...I think the staff has learned a thing or two from last year.

The worst part was the 20 seconds that ran off the clock after a completion. I think we went from 35 seconds to 15....I don't think it would have taken our starters 20 seconds to get to the line and stop the clock. With one timeout, I too would have been hesitant to use it knowing you'll need a FG to tie.

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I know the commentators told the viewers to complain about the management, but the real problem was the wasted time outs earlier in the second half. What happend in the tieing drive was we had a minute and a half to move the ball to field goal range with one time out, and we saved our time out for an inbounds reception in the middle of the field to allow time to send in the field goal unit. To get the tie was a miracle given the performance to that point, what the real suprise is the doom and gloomers are the ones crying that we didnt manage time correctly cause we are so scary good on O that we should have got a touch down.

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uh, I believe that was more a rookie qb's fault than the coaches. we have ran three or four "2 min" drills to near perfection before that one

i would like to believe that, but the responsibliity of the coaches is to tell the qb to spike the ball if this happens, tell the guys to hurry up to the line and get set, and call timeout if that happens. obviously the rookies and future free agents made mistakes, but the whole team seemed more disorganized than it should. and i shudder to think it may had something to do with the coaching staff's indecision of what to do.

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Apparently Theismann was disappointed because it was all he could talk about at the end of that game. I'm willing to believe this was more on Campbell than the coaching staff, so it doesn't worry me too much. We'll see if it carries over to the regular season...

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