Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Poor Clock Management.
What was up with Dick Vermeil on Monday Night Football last night? He used poor clock management at the end of the game, which in part lead to the New England Patriots defeating the Kansas City Chiefs.
Let's take a closer look:
The Patriots had the ball with about five minutes to go leading 24-19. Facing 2-and-5 from their own 41, the Pats handed off to Corey Dillon, who ran for nine yards and the first down. Vermeil should have used his first timeout here; it would have stopped the clock with about 5:30 left and given the KC defense a couple minutes of rest, as by the fourth quarter, they were looking tired. The Pats would have scored earlier in the fourth had Dillon not fumbled at the KC 5-yard line. Had they taken a timeout there, then one after the next running play and kept the last timeout for offense, assuming KC would have stopped the Pats on that series of downs, they would have gotten the ball back deep in their own territory with about 3:10 left on the clock, give or take a bit. Of course, that's assuming the Pats did not throw an incompletion or otherwise stop the clock in that span.
11:17:00 AM
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