Myself and a couple others had brought this up in one of the other threads. I was in disbelief that he screwed up the clock management once again which lead to a Jets FG going into halftime. Marrone is conceding that he messed up with the clock management. He better learn from this since this isn't even the first time this season.
After we had 2nd and 18 with the way our offense was playing just about any person would've played clock management at that point. It doesn't take "experience" to know when it's a good time to PREVENT the other team from scoring points. Without that FG our lone TD would've given us the lead instead of tying it up. Who knows how the rest of the game would've played out. Up to this point Marrone doesn't understand the clock management theory and has been a total failure in this area.
After we had 2nd and 18 with the way our offense was playing just about any person would've played clock management at that point. It doesn't take "experience" to know when it's a good time to PREVENT the other team from scoring points. Without that FG our lone TD would've given us the lead instead of tying it up. Who knows how the rest of the game would've played out. Up to this point Marrone doesn't understand the clock management theory and has been a total failure in this area.
Marrone acknowledged he should have had his offense slow down after taking a sack late in the first half of Sunday’s loss to the New York Jets.
The Bills got the ball on their own 25 with 1:41 left in the half. EJ Manuel was sacked for an 8-yard loss on first down. Manuel completed a 9-yard pass on second down, but then threw incomplete on third.
The Jets took possession after a punt on their own 34-yard line with 43 seconds left. The Jets had enough time to drive for a 47-yard field goal.
Marrone explained his thought process and admitted he made a judgment error.
“Looking back, here’s exactly what was going through my mind,” he said. “We were going to get the ball in the second half. I tend to be aggressive before that. What happened was we took the sack for minus-9. We come back and make it up on second down. We get 9 or 10 yards.
“Now we’re down to a manageable third down. We actually wanted to take a shot vertically down the field, and we wound up throwing an intermediate route incomplete.”
Marrone said he should have run on second and third down to make the Jets use their timeouts or to run clock.
“When we took the sack and we were at second and 18 or 19 – and I told this to the team – we all make mistakes. In hindsight, we go back, we take the sack, the percentages of making second and 18 to a first down. … Run the football, either to use the timeouts or the clock runs down, and go.
“So you’re exactly right. I’m not going to sit up here and defend that it was the right decision.”
The Bills got the ball on their own 25 with 1:41 left in the half. EJ Manuel was sacked for an 8-yard loss on first down. Manuel completed a 9-yard pass on second down, but then threw incomplete on third.
The Jets took possession after a punt on their own 34-yard line with 43 seconds left. The Jets had enough time to drive for a 47-yard field goal.
Marrone explained his thought process and admitted he made a judgment error.
“Looking back, here’s exactly what was going through my mind,” he said. “We were going to get the ball in the second half. I tend to be aggressive before that. What happened was we took the sack for minus-9. We come back and make it up on second down. We get 9 or 10 yards.
“Now we’re down to a manageable third down. We actually wanted to take a shot vertically down the field, and we wound up throwing an intermediate route incomplete.”
Marrone said he should have run on second and third down to make the Jets use their timeouts or to run clock.
“When we took the sack and we were at second and 18 or 19 – and I told this to the team – we all make mistakes. In hindsight, we go back, we take the sack, the percentages of making second and 18 to a first down. … Run the football, either to use the timeouts or the clock runs down, and go.
“So you’re exactly right. I’m not going to sit up here and defend that it was the right decision.”
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