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There was a bit of criticism of the time management on the last drive - both the commentators and some on the game thread were complaining the Fins let the clock run down before calling timeouts.

I thought it was perfect and a major positive for McD. When you are about to go in for the winning TD, you WANT to run the clock down. There was plenty of time to score. And as a result of not doing the obvious thing and calling TO the moment we got down close, we scored with just 14 seconds left. We had a TO in hand.

Be honest - if we left them 40 seconds are we really feeling comfortable given how things were going?

Great coaching from McDaniel.
 
I was watching the clock running down thinking... anytime now....come on...call the TO....come on......when you are ready..... It was just about perfect.
It was like he had the plays scripted and the time required.
 
Seeing what Baltimore did, imagine if they had an extra 15-20 seconds left on the clock.


2nd week in a row McDaniel made commentators eat crow on live TV.

I forget which commentator, but he said something like " you're trying to win the game not tie" in reference to them letting the clock run down.

Last week the 4th and 7 " I don't like this call at all"

Early favorite for coach of the year.

Pretty soon these commentators won't be able to keep showing their bias.
 
I think they knew they were 1st and goal, trailing by 3 with 1 timeout so they likely only needed enough time to run 3 plays and they would all be passes into the endzone unless the Ravens produced a sack. I that situation you really don't need more than 20 seconds on the clock.
 
Personally would of left a little more time so we had the ability to sprinkle in the run but with little time we left we had no choice but to pass. Shows how much faith McDaniels has in Tua to clutch it knowing a pass is coming.
 
When I realized what McDaniel was doing in running the clock down to 24 seconds, I was panicking that Tua would call timeout prematurely. I would love to know whether McDaniel and Tua had discussed the situation beforehand.
 
archer101 said:
There was a bit of criticism of the time management on the last drive - both the commentators and some on the game thread were complaining the Fins let the clock run down before calling timeouts.

I thought it was perfect and a major positive for McD. When you are about to go in for the winning TD, you WANT to run the clock down. There was plenty of time to score. And as a result of not doing the obvious thing and calling TO the moment we got down close, we scored with just 14 seconds left. We had a TO in hand.

Be honest - if we left them 40 seconds are we really feeling comfortable given how things were going?

Great coaching from McDaniel.
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loved it too. you already have the tie in the bag. you have plenty of time for 3 plays inside the 10. why rush and score and leave them time
 
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