hatterson
Registered User
The sack on third down happened at ~1:55 and they clearly didn’t have a 4th and 12 or whatever play lined up. That’s fine, you’re assuming the QB doesn’t give up a sack.First down Incompete pass. 2nd down run cmc but are short this hit 2 minutes. 3rd down is a long developing play ending in a sack. For sure won’t get ball back until under 1 minute and no timeouts left. Have a play for 4th and 1 ready but then it’s 4th and 15 and thus Shanny is scrambling.
Either you let some time come off the clock to get the right play (under 40 seconds) otherwise Bal drains the full 40 when they have the ball. At that point all you are doing is saving 10-12 seconds due to the saack
The issue is it took them 30 seconds to get the play in and get lined up. The difference between calling the TO after the sack and calling it after a Baltimore run would have been 10 seconds. Those 10 seconds are absolutely worth making sure everyone is properly ready for 4th down and good to go.
The fact that they false started meant they lost that time anyway, but that’s hindsight so doesn’t really count. In that situation, seeing the sack, the TO there would have been the expected difference in the best case of getting the ball back with 40 second left (using it) and 50 seconds left (not using it). Those 10 seconds are 100% worth not having your backup QB trying to scramble around with the clock running on 4th and goal.