Clock Management Issue

So I love the win, but I have noticed the last couple years every Skins game there seems to be a clock management issue right before halftime or at the end of the 4th. Not just play calling issues but actual problems such as the coaches not knowing what to do, the players not getting ready in time.

I was listening to some radio coverage after the game and they were talking about how this could cost the Skins a game this year if we dont figure out whatever the hell is going on.

Now in defense agaisnt those who are calling Gibbs a pansy last night right before half, on the postgame he said that the first delay was due to communication going out on JC's helmet. That is forgiven.

The second was just a false start, which was terrible. But what most people are pissed about is how Gibbs was ready to take the FG with 14 seconds left. Now I dont think its because he was "scared" because in the post game presser he said that the reason he sent out the FG unit is because the PLAYERS were confused, some of the O unit was out while the FG unit was out as well. The clock was running down and he didnt want us to move WAY out of FG range because of the confusion.

So now the question is that some of the fault of the coaching staff? I would say yes. Why is half the O out there on the field and half the FG unit. They should have had this figured out along with the many possible scenarios that could potentially unfold.

I think it might have to do with Gibbs' staff being very unorganized rather than Gibbs just being conservative. In that case it is actually more alarming to me.

Thoughts?

I think that's a case where there was a lot of miscommunication going on. I think some of it was Gibbs and Co., and some was a misunderstanding about what the game clock should have read.

But to your point, it does seem like we're the Key Stone cops in moments like these. To be truthful, that's when you really appreciate JC's poise the most, he doesn't panick and lose his cool.

Al Saunders and Bill Lazor need to get the plays into Campbell more quickly. When you get down to the 10 and no timeouts, you need to have a play that you have prepared and feel good about that you can send in. The time to have a discussion about it is when the defense has the ball or during one of the t.v. timeouts that add up to like an hour and a half. By the time the play clock is moving it's too late to get into "What about this" or "I think we should do that".

Maybe its a time thing and the kicking team comes on when there is so much time left in the half and the O wanted to run another play so theyr were hanging around. I do recall an issue in 2005 but not last year but I don't see it as that big of a deal.

Re: Not To Be Negative...
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Originally Posted by Dlyne8r View Post
OMG, Fabini was in another world, another game, or somewhere other than where he should have been. What the hell was up with so many repeat false-starts? Then, our coaches blew the clock management during this same drive. Where were we, on the two yard line or something? Those miscues almost killed that drive entirely. Of all the negatives, those there were the winners (or losers). I thought Gibbs and Co. got past those issues a couple of years ago.

BleedBurgundy wrote:
That clock management wasn't on us. The officials stopped the clock briefly which made our guys think the play clock was also reset. We got screwed. Lucky to come away with a td on that one.

I'll forgive this incident, mostly because it didn't cost us in the end because the players were able to focus and everyone executed well on the TD.

I'll chalk it up to it being early in the season, and not all situations have been encountered or practiced, and the team is still feeling each other out and trying to establish an identity. I don't foresee this being an issue as the season progresses.

I don't see it as a problem. I listenened to the game on the radio and they kept pointing out that Jason's helmet radio wasn't working and that he signaled that he couldn't hear the play and he tried to call something different but of course there was no time left. Gibbs said later that he felt that since there were 3 back to back mistakes that he was going to take the 3 until they called the timeout. I didn't have a problem with it, I hope that they give Jason more situations where he calls his own plays in practice just incase something like this happens again.

It was a one time thing that hopefully won't happen again. If it does then I'll call it an issue.

The reason that he sent the FG team on w/ 14 seconds left was b/c the coaches thought that the ref's would run off 10 seconds b/c of the penalty. It turns out they didn't run off the 10 seconds b/c of the False start which of course left 14 seconds. So...they really thought there would be only 4 seconds left therefore just allowing time enough to kick a FG. When Reid called time out they realized that there was time to try one more pass into the endzone....thank god.

I was ready to break the tv when I saw the fg team out there, if the Eagles didnt call that timeout we would have kicked it. That could have easily cost us the game.