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Originally Posted by Lilmrp117
Holy shit - you're ****ing dense! I thought we were past this and then you respond to my same post twice and yet you still do not understand my argument. The past game has nothing to do with the issue that I brought up as it was a blowout rather than a close game that required careful clock management in a pressure situation.
Being down 24-0 early in the 2nd quarter is not the same as being in a close game towards the end of the 4th quarter. There was still plenty of time in the game for andy to take his time and score. Yes, it was nice that they scored quickly in the 2nd, but they were assisted by special teams shortcutting the process. Not much need to manage the timing of a drive when you have hardman setting us up in the opponent's territory and a fumble putting us in the red zone. I would hope that a score in those situations would be extra quick since there isn't much field to cover.
Go ahead and keep denying that andy has a philosophy of taking extra time and timeouts to settle players down and make sure he has the right play - despite the man himself saying it and despite, not some reporter, but numerous coaches/best friends of Andy who have worked closely with him for years saying it as well. Did you even read the damn article?
Although I disagreed with him, DJLN is intelligent enough to recognize the issue - he just spins the issue as being a good thing rather than the flaw that I see it as. Seriously, go back and read the article and then read the conversation between myself and DJLN and maybe you'll finally recognize the issue. Then maybe you can keep up with the rest of us instead of quoting play by plays from random drives that do not speak to the issue at all and denying the words of the man at issue himself, and then on top of all that, acting like a smug, know-it-all douche who has to call people names b/c you disagree with them even though you're too dumb to even recognize the issue we are debating.
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So no explanation.
And the 90-yard drive to score for the fourth time and take the lead? I know Limpwrist here isn't going to understand what happened, but for everyone else . . .
Andy and Pat started on their own 10-yard line with 2:47 left in the half. Now, according to the "Andy is a shitty clock manager" crowd, pay attention:
Andy dials up 6 plays that cover 80 yards and only uses a mere 1:42.
If Andy were the terrible clock manager that Limpy et all seem to think he is, then this drive would've taken 13-16 plays, right? Or maybe because there's only 2:47 left in the half, Andy dials up some 15-play meandering (that's the word the reporter actually used, IIRC, "meandering" which means I must've read the article, right?) and never even gets into FG range, yes? That's the dipstick narrative some dolts are swallowing, correct?
However, that turns out not to be the case at all, does it? Limpy? Bueller? Anyone?
Moving on . . .
Now Pat helps him out a bit here on the first play by throwing at Kelce, actually purposefully over-throwing him, because he sees the DPI and wants to make sure it's called. That pass was designed to go to Damien. Whether or not Damien would've gotten the 15 yards is up for debate, but was likely. However, by attracting attention to the DPI, it forces a clock stoppage. Maybe Damien would've been tackled inbounds, so this was a great play by Pat.
Otherwise Pat executes the next 3 plays as designed, though one may have been in fact a designed run. Doesn't matter though, as the Chiefs cover 65 yards over the next 5 plays and uses up just 1:42 of the clock. The next two plays both should've been TDs, but Pat was back-pedaling on the first one and missed Damien, and Pat was being dragged down on the second and missed DRob. Those two plays took up 10 seconds. On 3rd down Pat decides to quit fooling around and hits Kelce for the TD with about :44 remaining.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the statement drive. Andy was telling the HOU DC that he could dial up a long drive from any field position and score a TD in less than 2 minutes or drag it out and do it in 6 minutes. That TD was the game-winner.
Now some people are going to nit-pick that Andy should've tried to bleed more clock and perhaps burn down the clock to as close to :00 as possible before scoring. And they may have a small point here. But mathematically the odds of the Texans offense being able to go 75 yards in :44
after going 27 yards on 6 plays in a 1:27 for a PUNT on their previous possession were pretty small.
In fact, it could easily be argued that HOU moving the ball far enough to even attempt a 51-yard FG was more lucky than anything else.
I rest my case.