I don't understand why teams don't hire some 18-year-old Madden wiz to advise them on clock situations.

Bill Simmons proposed this years ago and used Andy Reid as the example for why it should be done.

Mike Ditka said "People don't really know Andy Reid, he is very smart but also very stubborn." Maybe this hurts his clock managing abilities.

Really? Makes sense just to get it out of reids hands but plenty of opportunity for Smith to screw it up too. I've seen too many instances where he takes way too long to snap the ball, makes questionable decisions about getting rid of the ball instead of taking a clock absorbing sack, etc.... I'm not ripping on the guy but he could be part of the problem too.

He was saying that because Andy Reid was running the ball consistently.

Reid has always had a pretty diverse passing game, but has ignored the running game pretty consistently throughout his previous 14 years.

Utilizing Charles and Davis the way he has over the last couple of weeks is nothing short of shocking.

If the trend of running the ball continues the way it has then this will be a very dangerous offense.

But if Andy gets to being Andy then he will make the offense too one dimensional.

Reid has his weaknesses, but he's a good coach.

He's been a disaster when it comes to clock management for years. That's really the only knock I've ever had on him, and the fact that he abandons the run way too early if it isn't going well.

Is Dick Curl still available for time management services?

This.

Source:

Lived in philly, Andy ignored shady and passed passed passed when he should have ran it like he stole something

Its tough to argue with results. Maybe Andy finally got tired of having to answer the questions as to why he was the best defender for the opposing team, singlehandedly shutting down our running game for them. People ask how we lost to the Titans, just look at the number of rushes in that game compared to these last two victories. Charles touched the ball 5 times in the first half of that game. That is COMPLETELY inexcusable.

How you take your best player, who accounted for nearly 40 percent of your offense a season ago and just completely ignore him is baffling. He even admitted to it in the postgame presser after the loss.

Kelce has been a shot of adrenaline into the heart of our passing game. Bowe hasn't earned his contract, Avery is inconsistent, and the rest are pretty much a bunch of scrubs that would likely be on the PS of any other football team in the league.

The strength of this team is going to be the 1-2 punch of Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis. With those two guys running the football, Alex Smith becomes so much more dangerous. Play action becomes viable, and Smith has always loved throwing to the TE position where we look to have a rising star once again.

Last night, on throws to Travis Kelce, he was like 8/9 for 90 or so yards and a TD. The one miss being the stupidly bad overthrow early on.

The offense is going to succeed or fail based upon the discipline of Andy Reid. If he sticks with the ground game, and keeps our offense balanced, we will be scary. The O-Line isn't good enough to line up and protect Alex every down in a one-dimensional offensive gameplan. They must have the threat of the run in order for our passing attack to have a chance.

If we get down early in games this season, it may be rough sledding. Its tough for a lot of coaches to stick with that running game even when you're behind on the scoreboard.

Who the **** knows. I mean, it took knile Davis for Andy to realize the need to run the ball. He's had Westbrook, shady McCoy and jamaal charles, and it took a backup rb to show him the importance of running the ball. I sure as shit hope this is a continuing thing and not just some short term gimmick.

I guess I really didn't have an issue with the clock management. When the drive started, we were on our 11 with over 2 minutes on the clock. IIRC, New England had all 3 timeouts left. I was hoping for a first down to maybe run out the clock.

Then, when we got to their 14 with over a minute to go, I was hoping we would run the clock down to virtually no time left to score either a TD or FG, and leave Brady no time to score the other way. We did that.

Only thing different would have been quick play with 8 seconds to go, but if the pass to Bowe would have been a TD instead of just short of the goal line, I wouldn't have even cared about that.

I wonder who's been getting in his ear?

My God; remember when Herm used to run from the shotgun 99.9% of the time?

I just remembered that.

What a horrible memory.

Memory wipe, please.