Clock Management

[seabowl]

I know Greg Olson was going crazy on the broadcast yesterday talking about the poor clock management by Seattle at the end of the game. Yes, the last drive was not good but to me the drive before was even worse. They were I believe two times where they had second and one and they ran the ball burning off more clock. They only needed around one yard so why in the world are they running the ball with three more downs to get the first. If they would’ve had just a couple of more plays to run at the end, this could’ve put them in much better field position for the game-winning field goal. Hopefully McDonald learns from this.

 

[JustTheTip]

Actually the most egregious drive for this was the one before that. Down two scores, less than 10 minutes in the game and they were frequently taking the play clock down to one second. Behaving like they were protecting a lead instead of needing to score twice.

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

Seems like they were expecting to score and then get a stop and then drive the distance to make the GW field goal all in attempts to limit the time possession of the Rams. While that did play out, but, Myers missed the field goal, they wasted too much time and Myers would have benefited from a shorter distance kick. But, MacDonald elected to play it this way. A lot of learning points for Kubiak and Mac.

 

[JustTheTip]

I would expect a professional earning millions of dollars a year to have already learned the counting chickens before they hatch lesson.

 

[projectorfreak]

All of this is right as we could've killed virtually all the time we wanted on the final drive just taking as much time as we wanted so the time burning so early was gettin to me too

 

[JustTheTip]

All of this is right as we could've killed virtually all the time we wanted on the final drive just taking as much time as we wanted so the time burning so early was gettin to me too

That is really an unhatched chicken as well. But at least that egg is sitting in an incubator instead of a refrigerator.

 

[Atradees]

Actually the most egregious drive for this was the one before that. Down two scores, less than 10 minutes in the game and they were frequently taking the play clock down to one second. Behaving like they were protecting a lead instead of needing to score twice.

That's what killed the offense. On one hand you have to play keep away from Stafford. In which, the team executed beautifully. But the drawback is it gave the Rams time to read the play. The two minute offense worked better. Scored a td and Seahawks got the ball back. That Rams punt was the killer variable. Our offense is Sam and 2 seconds. Couldnt get there in the Prevent Offense. We might have won without that phantom roughing call on Riq.

 

[hox]

They were slow as hell on those last couple of drives. No sense of urgency at all.

 

[Torc]

Yeah, this is the thing that I'm hoping Macdonald addresses on the radio show this morning. Players have bad games, and when a QB has a bad game it's really visible. I am positive there will be adjustments before the second round - there has to be for a division opponent. But the lack of urgency is something that needs to be addressed by the coaching staff, because they could have told the players to speed it up. Literally 20 saved seconds could have resulted in a makeable field goal and a win.