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Mario told y’all time management people to shut up.

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You will have to listen to it or someone can probably summarize better but he said something like he’s doing it how they do it in the NFL with the 2 minute warning.l and basically it was the right call. Hopefully someone can give the exact quote.
 
BeCanes said:
On Joe Rose this morning he explained why he didn’t call his timeouts before the 2 minute timeout.
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I don’t know what he said, but it was the right call in the moment.

In the event Cal got an additional first down, you could still stop the clock after their subsequent 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. You get the ball back with 90-120 seconds, giving yourself a chance to score. If they didn’t get a first down, you had 3 TOs to pair with relatively the same amount of time. When they got the immediate first down prior to the 2 min TO, it made the decision very simple.

I’m a heavy critic of Mario and his time management, but even I knew it was the best option in the moment. Similarly, Brock Huard knew criticizing Mario for clock stuff was his safest option, as people just assume he’s looking at pig entrails to decide what to do.
 
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If only the game day porsters could figure out it's a 60 minute game...they wouldn't look so stupid,

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IndayArtHauz said:
I don’t know what he said, but it was the right call in the moment.

In the event Cal got an additional first down, you could still stop the clock after their subsequent 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. You get the ball back with 90-120 seconds, giving yourself a chance to score. If they didn’t get a first down, you had 3 TOs to pair with relatively the same amount of time. When they got the immediate first down prior to the 2 min TO, it made the decision very simple.

I’m a heavy critic of Mario and his time management, but even I knew it was the best option in the moment. Similarly, Brock Huard knew criticizing Mario for clock stuff was his safest option, as people just assume he’s looking at pig entrails to decide what to do.
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Great points, but you’re confusing journeymen QBs turned analyst. Wasn’t Huard, but Osweiler or whatever his name is. Not sure which Brock is more annoying.
 
This was a situation where either decision is justifiable.

Cons of not taking a time out at 2:30ish:
-Guaranteed 30 seconds off the clock
-Cal was on 3rd and 15 and probably going to pass, so if they throw an incompletion you had a chance to get the ball back with 2:25 and two timeouts
-If cal converts, you did lose 5-10 seconds by the time you take your first timeout at around 1:55ish

Pros:
-Saving the extra timeout for the offense opens up the playbook for runs, passes down the seam, etc...
-With college clock rules you dont need 2 minutes to score, can do it way faater
-if cal converts, they feel obligated to run to eat your timeouts

All in all Id say it's a wash with either decision and calling it bad clock management is just taking the easy narrative
 
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Mario quote, "When the clock is in between 2:41, 2:47 this is all do to NFL studies and the way they use the 2 minute warning. You don't want to blow your timeout. Because they are going to run a play. The clocks going to start. The play clocks going to start at 2:39 and your gonna waist 39 seconds anyways ya know. Save yourself, have the ability to have 3 timeouts. The clock was stopped when one of their players was injured. We get to get that timeout back so we kept ourselves 3. Got the ball back with under 2 minutes and that's what we do everyday in practice."
 
BeCanes said:
Mario quote, "When the clock is in between 2:41, 2:47 this is all do to NFL studies and the way they use the 2 minute warning. You don't want to blow your timeout. Because they are going to run a play. The clocks going to start. The play clocks going to start at 2:39 and your gonna waist 39 seconds anyways ya know. Save yourself, have the ability to have 3 timeouts. The clock was stopped when one of their players was injured. We get to get that timeout back so we kept ourselves 3. Got the ball back with under 2 minutes and that's what we do everyday in practice."
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If he can keep staying out of the way and continue recruiting at this level, we may actually be onto something here. Love this level of detail and awareness from Mario.
 
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