The TO was poor clock mamangement imo , something that has troubled this coaching staff before , and it looks like it still is , unfortunately.

Maybe Tony needs a time out guy to buzz him or get in his ear ( slightly kidding ).

I wondered about the wind with the deep kickoffs, out of bounds , poor punt , but as nothing was said on the broadcast , I kind of let that settle. Henne's pass to Marshall may have also been affected by wind.

 

The wind issue was just confirmed by Omar Kelly on the Sid Rosenberg show. He stressed how incredibly bad the wind was yesterday and said it had a direct effect on what seemed like an underthrown ball to Marshall and of course the missed FG and kicking the ball out of bounds on the kick off.

He also mentioned that Carpenter wouldn't of had that booming touchback kick off without the help of the wind either.

 

I was thinking the same thing about the time management. I'm really not sure what they were thinking. Coach really needs to work on his time management, if this were the Colts, we'd probably be cursing it for costing us the game.

 

Totally agree, this has been an issue going back to Sparano's first year. I was holding out hope for improvement but the early indications are we will be seeing more of the same.

What I don't understand is why don't the Dolphins (or any other team) appoint a clock management coach to handle this type of strategy? I think it would be relatively easy to come up with such a strategy in advance.

You could then take the clock resposibility away from the head coach to reduce the chance of costly errors.

 

I thought I saw where the special teams coach called the timeout. Or am I mistaken?

 

The wind was crazy yesterday.

 

They obviously gave it a thought or two to go for it on 4th down. Fasano was about 4 yards shy of the first down and after they took the time out, the offense stayed on the field for a bit until finally Carpenter came in. Apparently, they wanted some time to think it through.

 

When Gus Johnson and Steve Tasker are calling a Bills game (or any game for that matter, but especially Bills), watching with the tv on MUTE would be just as informative.

 

My thought on the timeout was that if you have a bad snap you have time for another shot at it. Am I wrong?

 

I didn't know why they called timeout but I had assumed that Buffalo would've called it anyway. We won't ever know if the Bills would have called timeout or not so it's kind of a moot point.

 

i wouldn't say its a moot point. i've noticed this ever since Sparano has been here. its actually the only thing i don't like about him. i was hoping it would be corrected this year, but that wasn't a good sign. i think we've missed out on a handful of opportunities to win close games because of stuff like that. if the coach doesn't correct it, we'll just have to not put ourselves in that situation and have a comfortable lead every game.