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When Bill Belichick watched recent losses by the Falcons and Bears in which clock management mistakes were a major factor, it made him put his coaching cap on and think about how to avoid such mistakes. And in an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show he gave a long explanation of his thinking in those late-game situations.
“It’s mystifying,” Belichick said. “What I always tried to do was, you have three timeouts in a two-minute situation. You use your first timeout between two minutes and one minute, you use your second timeout between a minute and 30 seconds, and then you use your third timeout somewhere under 30 seconds. That wasn’t an absolute rule, but it was a rule of thumb. You didn’t want to have two timeouts with 20 seconds to go, and you didn’t want to use two timeouts in the first 30 seconds of a two-minute situation where you didn’t need to.”
That matches what Tom Brady said about timeout usage on the Fox broadcast of Sunday’s Packers-Vikings game, and Belichick said Brady helped shape his thinking on when to use timeouts.
“Tom and I and Josh [McDaniels] had this conversation, probably in about ’13, ’14, somewhere in there,” Belichick said. “Because I had always wanted to save it for the end, especially if you needed a field goal, so you didn’t have to run the no-huddle field goal team on, that you could just take a timeout and go in there and kick it. But Brady said, ‘I’d rather have more time and less timeouts, because it gives me more options, than less time and a timeout. So let me handle it. If I screw it up that’s my fault and you can take it away from me, but I’d rather you take the timeout with 27 seconds and give me more time to do something with, than run a play with 27 seconds, and now we go to 13 seconds and one timeout. I’d rather have 27 seconds and no timeouts than 12 seconds and one timeout.'”
Belichick said every coach in the league should be aware of other teams’ clock management mistakes and use them to teach his players. Belichick said…
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Publish date : 2025-01-04 10:03:00
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