11-29-2015, 09:59 PM
Neither here nor there, but Broncos won in OT.
By the way, that the Patriots managed to win by using their time outs (they had one left) doesn't mean that Shaw's strategy was wrong, just that there are more than one ways to skin the cat. It is a tradeoff between having more time in your pocket versus more time outs. On offense you can move quickly without using time outs, running a play every 10 seconds or so if you do it right, so generally I favor burning them on defense (where you can save 40 second per time out). But having the time outs on offense does open up your offense much more than having time.
And there is the psychological aspect of it that doesn't get mentioned much. By calling a time out, you are basically telling your defense that you don't think they'll be able to stop the other team (not that it was wrong, but it's different when the coach admits it.
Finally, I think CTCard's tone was anything like "how dare anyone who hasn't coached college football..." He specifically mentioned that he didn't object to the content, but the tone, and that while it is reasonable to say "If I were coach, I'd have called time out when we were on defense", that should at least come with the implicit acknowledgement that a different call would, at best, be only marginally better than the strategy employed, given the vast amount of uncertainty in these things. In other words, reasonable people can disagree on what the right strategy, but it seems a bit much to call a given strategy "abysmal", even if you think it is sub-optimal.
BC
By the way, that the Patriots managed to win by using their time outs (they had one left) doesn't mean that Shaw's strategy was wrong, just that there are more than one ways to skin the cat. It is a tradeoff between having more time in your pocket versus more time outs. On offense you can move quickly without using time outs, running a play every 10 seconds or so if you do it right, so generally I favor burning them on defense (where you can save 40 second per time out). But having the time outs on offense does open up your offense much more than having time.
And there is the psychological aspect of it that doesn't get mentioned much. By calling a time out, you are basically telling your defense that you don't think they'll be able to stop the other team (not that it was wrong, but it's different when the coach admits it.
Finally, I think CTCard's tone was anything like "how dare anyone who hasn't coached college football..." He specifically mentioned that he didn't object to the content, but the tone, and that while it is reasonable to say "If I were coach, I'd have called time out when we were on defense", that should at least come with the implicit acknowledgement that a different call would, at best, be only marginally better than the strategy employed, given the vast amount of uncertainty in these things. In other words, reasonable people can disagree on what the right strategy, but it seems a bit much to call a given strategy "abysmal", even if you think it is sub-optimal.
BC