Michael Lombardi likes my work - More on the atrocious 2:02 timeout...

I love how this isn’t the first time you’ve accused the pros (albeit jokingly) of plagiarizing you. :)

The last one was Peter King. I wrote something about the draft day trades we made and how we picked up a ton of picks without really giving up much, and then Peter King wrote basically the same thing a few days later.

Mine – http://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2009/4/26/854652/our-3rd-rounder-got-us-a-3-a-5-a-7

Peter King’s – http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/05/03/eagles/index.html (You have to skip past the Favre stuff)

I really wouldn’t be surprised if guys like Peter King and Michael Lombardi lifted ideas from sites like this regularly. You steal from a nobody and change your wording a little, and maybe add a little of your own commentary, and it’s not like anyone will notice. It’s not easy thinking of things to write everyday. Disclaimer – I’m definitely not saying they stole from me at all, but it’s really not so far-fetched.

I honestly wonder why teams don’t hire "time management coaches." They entrust every little detail of special teams to a single guy, sometimes safeties and tight ends and d-ends have their own coaches.

That’s a really good point. In 1969, George Allen hired Dick Vermeil as a “special teams” coach for the Rams. Vermeil was the first ever special teams coach. It was sort of mocked back then, but it turns out there that it was an outstanding idea. Why not have a time-management coach? Bill Simmons of espn.com has a podcast, and on numerous occasions he has said that NFL teams should just hire a pimply-faced 14 year old that does nothing but play Madden all day, because there won’t be anyone out there that has seen more time-management scenarios than him – And just plop the kid next to the coach on the sidelines and to tell him when he’s making an obvious mistake. Obviously, he’s half kidding, but in reality, than plan would have worked last Sunday

I’m not bad at managing the clock in Madden…but let’s be honest about what Reid has on his mind on gameday…

with that said…something’s gotta give

I thought I mentioned somewhere that it’s fair to expect them to know it because it’s their job. But they also have lots of other jobs swirling through their minds at the time, it might be wise to give the duty to someone who has little else on his plate at that point in the game.

REID!!!!!

McNabb was unimpressive implementing a terrible game plan that he did not come up with. McNabb was unimpressive making decisions in split seconds because the O Line couldn’t stop anyone.

This is NOT on McNabb

Reid. McNabb was bad, but the entire offense was completely unprepared, so that’s on Reid.

I think I was thinking ‘ooh, we stop them, use our last timeout and then the clock stops again at 2 minutes.’

Besides the other reasons mentioned, it’s always good to keep one timeout in the bag that you can use to stop the clock whenever you want to.

I think when you want the ball back, the first instinct is to just get a stop, call timeout ASAP … somebody definitely should have realized before that play how close they were to the 2-minute warning and reminded everyone not to.

the thing that struck me about the timeout call by Don was that Westbrook immediately looked frustrated like he tries to stop Don. the halfback knew we had no timeouts, but the quarterback didn’t.

nonetheless, you are all right. this loss is all on Andy.

if Reid is going to be involved with the offense and big-picture items such as the team’s mood and whether or not to punt, kick the field goal or go for it on 4th, he very well could hand the clock managment duties off for the good of the team.

All coaches have certain gameday responsibilities and I have no idea how the Eagles break theirs down, but it seems like Reid could definitely hand off the clock stuff or have a time expert by his side the last two minutes of the half. While Reid is thinking about personnel and down and distance, this coach can purely manage timeouts (and maybe challenges).

Just a thought.

there were many single plays that could have gone different that would have made even a bigger difference that the time out. The over all play of the whole team was truly the problem.

But the timeout certainly didn’t help, and probably cost us the chance for one last drive. All I’m saying is that Reid screwed up… badly… and the criticism is warranted.

There’s STILL a strategical advantage waiting for the 2 minute warning anyway. Here’s the difference…

- If you call a timeout at 2:02 and they throw an incomplete pass, the clock stops anyway because any play will always take at least 2 seconds… but you’ve already burned your last timeout.

- If you wait the 2 seconds for the 2 minute warning, and then they pass anyway and it’s incomplete, the clock stops and you get to keep your last timeout.

Whatever scenario you want to dial up for why they should have called a timeout, I’ll have an irrefutable answer.

…although I’ve been “promoted” a few other times.

Are you guys just F’ing with me at this point, because if so, that’s pretty funny.

I think that coach Cable would have called a pass play regardless to when Andy used his timeout. Because coach didn’t want to punt the ball back to the Eagles. And rushing the ball almost guarantees the Eagles get the ball back w/ 2 minutes. But the timeout did make the decision to pass easier.

And sorry… I guess it did come across that way.

But the fact remains… This is not an opinion – Calling a timeout there was stupid, end of story.

We can arrange a conference call if you’d like. I can probably explain it better verbally.