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[Toro]

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Toro when should they have called a timeout? On first and 10 from the 11?

I don't think so.

then it's 2nd and 5 or whatever - I think calling a TO here is very close, but far from a no-brainer. You have to see what happens on 2nd down.

then they did call a TO on 3rd.

so we get the ball back with 1min and 2 TO's. we are at the Colts 45 with :24 and 1 TO left, which we were clearly going to need if we made the 1 or 2 more completions we obviously needed to make.

I don't see the obvious clock mgmt mistake. You could probably argue that we could have used one after the first big gain we made, but again, I think it's close.

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I was screaming for the timeout right after the first down play. Sure they could make a first down by getting to the one yard line but that was really irrelevant because if they did that, the game would have been pretty much over anyway. So it boils down to, would you rather get the ball with 1 minute left and 2 timeouts or 1 minute and 45 seconds and 1 timeout? The latter and it's not close, imo.