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Clock Management

GottaluvGriz

GottaluvGriz

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First of all, great win today Grizzlies!
A real nice bounce back on defense and offense this week.
One troubling item from today's game was the continued poor clock management by our coaching staff,
Before the end of the first half, with Sac State threatening to score, the Griz still had all 3 of their timeouts left. Instead of using the timeouts and keeping some time on the clock for the Griz to be able to have a possession after the Sac State score, the staff fails to use any timeouts and let's 2:00 minutes come off the clock.
The Griz defense keeps the Hornets out of the end zone and gives up a FG, however, there was only 40 seconds left to play when we received the kickoff before halftime. We end up running one play and then call a timeout. With little time to work with, we take the game to halftime.
Poor job of clock management in my opinion.
Go Griz!
 
That is about all we can complain about today, so that is a good thing. My buddy and I noticed that too and we were both saying the same thing.
 
JayLarson said:
That is about all we can complain about today, so that is a good thing. My buddy and I noticed that too and we were both saying the same thing.
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That's the normal reaction. But when you think about, there's two parts to the clock management equation: Momentum vs "time to think." The Griz D, in a "bend don't break" mode, had their mojo going against what recent history said was a potentially-explosive offense. Sac-State was calling plays under some time pressure to try to break that mojo. If the Griz D takes a time out, to (supposedly) save clock for the O, they break their own rhythm and they give the Hornies Time to Think. Remember, Sac only had one TO, which they had to (and did) keep for the FG. Giving them time to think with UM timeouts would have really been doing them a favor.

Myself, I'm just enjoying a win.
 
As Griz fans, we nitpick a lot of things. A complete win means that people look at the teeny stuff to post SOMETHING on eGriz.
 
PDXGrizzly said:
As Griz fans, we nitpick a lot of things. A complete win means that people look at the teeny stuff to post SOMETHING on eGriz.
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LOL
I suppose that is true this week.
The concern is that this is not the first time we have not used better clock management this year.
Go Griz!
 
I 100% agree, we have missed a few time management opportunities. There was actually about 2:30 left on the clock when SS was at the 7. So no chance for first down. By using the time outs, we get the ball back with around 2 minutes and a relatively productive offense at the time. We were only leading 17-6.
Take the Falcon game last week as an example. They were leading 21-0 at half and their offense was hot. They got the ball back with about a minute left before half/2 timeouts at around the 25 and decided to just run clock out. They lost 22-21. They go and score one more time before half and that could have been what put the game out of reach. BW also pointed this out in his thread, it is crazy we are going to locker room with 2 timeouts in a game that is still pretty tight and we are playing a team that has proven they can light up the score board.
 
Its true in the end it did not matter, "IN THIS GAME" but how many games in past years or I bet even in some games today would a team love to have an extra 30 sec on the clock at the end of a drive. It does drive me crazy when there is time to make a play or two that could come down to the difference in the game and we just take a knee and go re-group. Play a full 60 minuets, is this not what every coach says in a post game interview. But yes, GOOD GAME TODAY.
 
NativeGriz said:
I 100% agree, we have missed a few time management opportunities. There was actually about 2:30 left on the clock when SS was at the 7. So no chance for first down. By using the time outs, we get the ball back with around 2 minutes and a relatively productive offense at the time. We were only leading 17-6.
Take the Falcon game last week as an example. They were leading 21-0 at half and their offense was hot. They got the ball back with about a minute left before half/2 timeouts at around the 25 and decided to just run clock out. They lost 22-21. They go and score one more time before half and that could have been what put the game out of reach. BW also pointed this out in his thread, it is crazy we are going to locker room with 2 timeouts in a game that is still pretty tight and we are playing a team that has proven they can light up the score board.
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Incorrect, there are several defensive penalties that would have given Sac a 1st down.
 
Sac State was running the clock down to zero before running a play. You can bet the last thing they wanted UM to do was take a timeout. But if there had been a penalty, SS still had a couple of TOs and were still in good shape with 30-40 seconds, where as it eliminated any chance for UM to do anything. So to me a penalty is not a part of the equation. In either case I feel we should have preserved the time.
 
NativeGriz said:
Sac State was running the clock down to zero before running a play. You can bet the last thing they wanted UM to do was take a timeout. But if there had been a penalty, SS still had a couple of TOs and were still in good shape with 30-40 seconds, where as it eliminated any chance for UM to do anything. So to me a penalty is not a part of the equation. In either case I feel we should have preserved the time.
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doubt they cared...
 
Everyone in our area of the NEZ asked the same question: why aren't we taking timeouts? Our concensus is, based on 2 1/2 seasons of data, is MD goes into full brain lock, brain freeze, or lack of awareness he's the HC. We can see from his pregame pep talk he can't think fast on his feet. My great grandfather had the same paralysis under pressure at MDs age. Nothing can be done--it's not fixable.
 
horribilisfan8184 said:
Everyone in our area of the NEZ asked the same question: why aren't we taking timeouts? Our concensus is, based on 2 1/2 seasons of data, is MD goes into full brain lock, brain freeze, or lack of awareness he's the HC. We can see from his pregame pep talk he can't think fast on his feet. My great grandfather had the same paralysis under pressure at MDs age. Nothing can be done--it's not fixable.
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A hallmark of MD since 2012. :thumb:
 
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