I have said this before but almost every other coach now would have immediately used their two timeouts yesterday after punting the ball to Indiana with 4:30 left in the game yesterday.
I was fuming while watching Indiana run the 40 second clock down to 1 second on two consecutive plays. Nearly a minute and 20 seconds of wasted time. Coaches for 10 or more years now have been using their timeouts on defense to save time for TWO MAIN reasons:
1. The opponent may help you out by running out of bounds, throwing an incomplete pass, to stop the clock for you and even if they get one first down they might turn it over and you have the extra 1:20 seconds of clock time to win the game.
And 2. if you do get the ball back with those extra 1:20 seconds left on the clock the offense can clock the ball to stop the clock, stop it with first downs, hurry up the offense (no laughter please), run out of bounds, thru an incomplete pass, and you still have the whole field available to you as you try to work the sideline so the defense guards the sideline, so throw it 20 yards over the middle, the clock stops, and you hurry to the line and clock it and you have 3 downs still left on that series of downs.
Taxpayer money doesnt pay KF and the coaches salaries which is why I dont bi#ch much at all about the 3.8 million salary.
But I will be very critical of someone making so much money who stands there and lets time run off the clock like that and who wont go for it on 4th and 2 feet.
I was fuming while watching Indiana run the 40 second clock down to 1 second on two consecutive plays. Nearly a minute and 20 seconds of wasted time. Coaches for 10 or more years now have been using their timeouts on defense to save time for TWO MAIN reasons:
1. The opponent may help you out by running out of bounds, throwing an incomplete pass, to stop the clock for you and even if they get one first down they might turn it over and you have the extra 1:20 seconds of clock time to win the game.
And 2. if you do get the ball back with those extra 1:20 seconds left on the clock the offense can clock the ball to stop the clock, stop it with first downs, hurry up the offense (no laughter please), run out of bounds, thru an incomplete pass, and you still have the whole field available to you as you try to work the sideline so the defense guards the sideline, so throw it 20 yards over the middle, the clock stops, and you hurry to the line and clock it and you have 3 downs still left on that series of downs.
Taxpayer money doesnt pay KF and the coaches salaries which is why I dont bi#ch much at all about the 3.8 million salary.
But I will be very critical of someone making so much money who stands there and lets time run off the clock like that and who wont go for it on 4th and 2 feet.