http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Tavern-talk-Watching-the-game-clock.html Monday night, we learned an important lesson about the NFL: It doesn’t matter how long you possess the ball, it matters what you do with it when you have it. One of the most meaningless stats in football is time of possession in this sense: The Colts and Dolphins each had the ball for eight possessions (teams usually have it 11-12 times a game), and each scored five times. The Dolphins, however, missed a field goal and threw an interception at the end of the game (more about that later). The possession that killed the Dolphins was the one right before the half when they made the field goal but left too much time on the clock for Mr. Manning.