I almost hesitate to bring this up because I realize you can’t hand-pick whenever you score and Pat made the right throw. If you remember anything from this, remember that’s my stance. He was open. Pat took the shot. MVS dropped it. With this D the team likely wins. I get that. (key word likely. We don’t know.)

But… fundamentally speaking, I will stand by that it’s bad strategy to even call a deep route with 1:49 to go. The Eagles, who we all agree have a great O, just scored. It’s late in the game. The defenses are wearing down. And they had all 3 timeouts.

Are the Chiefs trying to give them enough time to come back & win the game with one last drive?

If MVS were to actually catch a ball, crazy thought I know, the Chiefs go up, and the Eagles are down 3 with 3 timeouts and about 1:40 left.

Who called that play?

I don’t blame Pat. If you see a guy open, you take your shot. But you have to admit that a drive to eat more clock, calls that are more short-yardage to intermediate is the smarter play. Would be much better to work your way down the field and score later vs trying to score ASAP. I know I know you can’t always pick that. But you have to admit that the option of taking up more time & then scoring is much more ideal as far as winning.

It’s bad clock management in that it’s not about scoring. It’s about scoring last.

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