I think Marvin's approach to timeouts is misunderstood by most

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(08-17-2016, 09:11 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Idk. If that's the way you want to explain the TO's then I'd have a couple questions.

1. What are these people in the booth noticing that would force a TO?
2. If they don't like the play call for the defensive alignment, why not audible instead?

Either way, it really does seem like we're more prone to burn TO's. So are we just seeing things we don't like more often than other teams? Seems like something could be done to preserve those 2nd half TO's. They can be pretty important in close games.

Well the booth has the best view of the D (as I'm sure you know most of the TOs called are on offense). Like I said, probably when there's not enough time for an audible. Also, a lot of the timeouts seem to come on 3rd down, so Marvin is probably also placing a very high priority on winning field position early in the game using TOs to call a "new" (as in not in the gameplan) or adjusted play.