A few things that really annoy me with Gus. There have been clock management issues in multiple games that kids playing Madden know how to solve better than our coaches. Calling timeout on 4th down with 3 seconds left before the half was especially egregious this Sunday. They should have called timeout right after the sack when there was about 22 seconds on the clock. Then the offense wouldn't dare try a hail mary because we'd have a few seconds to try to score ourselves from near midfield. If we had 15 seconds with a timeout, we might get in field goal range with one pass or at worst try a hail mary of our own. With the timeout they'd have to punt which means you eliminate a risk of giving up points before the half. Just basic gamesmanship seems to be missing from this staff.

 

That said, clock management can be learned and it was impressive how much young players improved throughout last year. If the young players can continue to improve at that rate, we'll be fine. So, I'm on the fence.

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