CountWhoDat
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In recent years, Sean Payton has been very cavalier about timeout use. I'll focus on the final timeout we used in the second half here. Why? What possible justification could you have for using a timeout on a play that, while perhaps begging for clarification, had bounced in your favor so decidedly? The only result that could have come from that timeout was bad for the Saints.
On the last-gasp drive, a timeout changes everything. It's unfair to place the game on the foot of your rookie kicker in his first game from 61 yards when you could have preserved the timeout and made it a reasonable try. Del Rio did not end up needing his timeouts, but he wisely preserved them for that final drive in the event that they did. How are you getting outfoxed by Del Rio?
This is one of those things I just don't understand.
On the last-gasp drive, a timeout changes everything. It's unfair to place the game on the foot of your rookie kicker in his first game from 61 yards when you could have preserved the timeout and made it a reasonable try. Del Rio did not end up needing his timeouts, but he wisely preserved them for that final drive in the event that they did. How are you getting outfoxed by Del Rio?
This is one of those things I just don't understand.