11-15-2017, 07:58 PM
(11-15-2017, 09:02 AM)2MinutesHate Wrote: Once they were in easy fg range, I don't know why you wouldn't call a timeout to save some clock for your team to get the win if the defense holds them to a fg. They were tying the game no matter what at that point.
This.
As for SB XLIX, Belichick had this to say about not using TO's on defense:
Quote:"We saw that matchup and we certainly gave some consideration to taking a timeout there and leaving some time on the clock. I don't know if that would have been a bad thing to do. It might have been a good thing to do," Belichick said. "But it just seemed like -- in the flow of the game- that we were OK with where we were."
https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/02/04/bill-belichick-super-bowl-timeout
There is no absolute set way of doing things. Belichick's quote implies that in other situations, he may have opted to use TO's to save time on defense.
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