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Might as well bring it up now. What did everyone think of Mario not calling timeout before the 2 minute warning. At first it seemed really bad. But Mario actually played it perfectly. He was fine letting some of the clock go because he knew we would score and score quickly. So he did not want to leave time on the clock for Cal to kick a winning FG. If that is what was truly going through his head, then simply brilliant. How many times have we seen teams score so quickly that the other team has plenty of time for a FG.
 
edge said:
Might as well bring it up now. What did everyone think of Mario not calling timeout before the 2 minute warning. At first it seemed really bad. But Mario actually played it perfectly. He was fine letting some of the clock go because he knew we would score and score quickly. So he did not want to leave time on the clock for Cal to kick a winning FG. If that is what was truly going through his head, then simply brilliant. How many times have we seen teams score so quickly that the other team has plenty of time for a FG.
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I was upset at first. but i went back and assessed. You only call timeout there if you planned on taking another before the 2.

It was 2:30 ish after second down. You take a timeout there and you're sitting at 2 minutes with the start of the punt due to 2 min TO. He let it run and we were sitting at 1:50 when we could call our first timeout. (Didn't need to due to injury).

If you call it there, then games over for sure if the get a first. You keep it and you may get it back with say 40-50 seconds and no timeouts. We scored very quickly with the bull**** penalty on Horton and 2 runs. We could have potentially still won the game regardless of the targeting due to how Mario played it. Good for him
 
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edge said:
Might as well bring it up now. What did everyone think of Mario not calling timeout before the 2 minute warning. At first it seemed really bad. But Mario actually played it perfectly. He was fine letting some of the clock go because he knew we would score and score quickly. So he did not want to leave time on the clock for Cal to kick a winning FG. If that is what was truly going through his head, then simply brilliant. How many times have we seen teams score so quickly that the other team has plenty of time for a FG.
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It worked. I would have called one there with the 2 minute stop coming. The thing is with time outs for the offense you can use the middle of the field and stop the clock. Even use a run play with Cam. With out the time outs everything has to go to the side lines.
 
ristwasdown said:
I was upset at first. but i went back and assessed. You only call timeout there if you planned on taking another before the 2.

It was 2:30 ish after second down. You take a timeout there and you're sitting at 2 minutes with the start of the punt due to 2 min TO. He let it run and we were sitting at 1:50 when we could call our first timeout. (Didn't need to due to injury).

If you call it there, then games over for sure if the get a first. You keep it and you may get it back with say 40-50 seconds and no timeouts. We scored very quickly with the bull**** penalty on Horton and 2 runs. We could have potentially still won the game regardless of the targeting due to how Mario played it. Good for him
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I believe it’s a mistaken strategy. You utilize a timeout after the SECOND down stop to control 40 seconds off the clock and, ideally, force them into an incompletion on 3rd. 40 seconds are more valuable. You can better control the clock when you’re on offense at the end of a game - spikes, for example, are an alternative strategy. But, you have no control over the 40 seconds that tick off when you’re on defense. I’m not advocating for using ALL the timeouts while on defense. But, just because the result turned out ok doesn’t mean it’s an optimal or sustainable strategy going forward.
 
Also the decision to waste 15 seconds and let it run to the 2 minute warning and not call a timeout worked perfectly. Got the extra regroup with the offense and ended up in Cam taking Dawson’s playsheet and picking the game winning TD playcall.

Wouldn’t have happened if you take that timeout
 
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JayCane20 said:
Also the decision to waste 15 seconds and let it run to the 2 minute warning and not call a timeout worked perfectly. Got the extra regroup with the offense and ended up in Cam taking Dawson’s playsheet and picking the game winning TD playcall.

Wouldn’t have happened if you take that timeout
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Gameday decision coach has been paying off immensely.

The best time management from Mario I’ve seen due to him.
 
LuCane said:
I believe it’s a mistaken strategy. You utilize a timeout after the SECOND down stop to control 40 seconds off the clock and, ideally, force them into an incompletion on 3rd. 40 seconds are more valuable. You can better control the clock when you’re on offense at the end of a game - spikes, for example, are an alternative strategy. But, you have no control over the 40 seconds that tick off when you’re on defense. I’m not advocating for using ALL the timeouts while on defense. But, just because the result turned out ok doesn’t mean it’s an optimal or sustainable strategy going forward.
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Agreed. Assuming it all breaks the same, we'd get the ball with about 2:20, a TO, and the 2 minute TO.
 
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