Week 17 NFL Game Thread - What day of the week is it?

Jed Zeppelin

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Atlanta has been in two two minute drills tonight and the only TO they used was just now to prevent DOG.
 

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I would have put Darrell Green or Brian Mitchell back there for the return.
 

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It is not really moot when a fundamentally easy coaching decision (calling a timeout) clearly impacts the end of regulation. If the Falcons win in OT I guess it is moot on some level.
I agree. Shorthand. It really isn’t moot.

I was referring to the flag anyway, but same reasoning- of course the missed FG doesn’t retroactively make ok any blown call (or coaching screwup).

FWIW the flag was legit, there was defensive holding
 

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I'd love to know how Andy Reid figured it out. I assume he has a "clock strategy guy" on staff now. He was abysmal at it in Philly.
If I were an NFL coach I would have a member of my staff practically Velcroed to me with under three minutes in both halves whose sole job would be clock and timeouts management.

I was a bench coach for a small high school basketball team and that was my exact job every game, and I was stunned how many times our head coach would have completely lost sight of how many timeouts we had.
 

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Never in doubt, this is Ertz we're talking about. What a win for Washington.
 

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Dianna Russini today on time management and coaches (spoiler for length)

With games feeling closer than ever this season, the ability to manage critical moments has become a separator between winning and losing teams. As the coaching carousel starts to spin over the next few weeks, one question that absolutely needs to come up in interviews is: What’s your game-management plan?

It’s not just about being a genius with X’s and O’s, it’s about how a coach handles the chaos of game day. Clock management, deciding when to go for it on fourth down, deciding when to challenge a play or when to call a timeout — these split-second decisions can make or break a season.

One NFL head coach put it perfectly during a recent conversation: “The ‘perfect play’ might be in your playbook, but in real time, it’s about responding to the situation in front of you. Down, distance, field position, time on the clock, knowing when to call time out, even momentum — all of it dictates what happens next. It’s hard to call plays and manage the game at the same time. It moves fast.”

When we’re watching games from the outside, without the pressure of making those calls, it’s easy to see how the best teams adjust on the fly — whether it’s dealing with injuries, surprising performances, or just the flow of the game. If teams are going to hire a brilliant play caller as their head coach, they should also make sure there’s someone focused on game management to keep everything balanced. It could be the key to turning close games into wins. And fewer dumb game-management errors will definitely be good for my blood pressure.
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I would also add: getting plays in on time. It’s insane how many balls are getting snapped with :00 on the clock across the league.
How is the refs holding things up to allow for substitutions affecting that? It seems sometimes the O takes a relatively long time to make its subs, then the ref stops action (but not the play clock) to allow the D to sub, so there's almost no time left on the clock. It seems to happen to Wash a lot, but maybe that's because I've seen them a lot. I guess the O needs to be crisper on getting new guys in, but it seems like something the D could game to their advantage.
 

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I'm inclined to say BINGO to this. Owners may be in the football business but are a lot more comfortable seeking counsel from fellow billionaires, even from opposing franchises, than the football people. Add to that owners of any franchise generally hate any heliocentric management format when THEY are not at the center. Hence the Krafts going to a so-called "collaborative" approach when moving on from BB.