Kellen Moore not taking ownership for poor clock management before the half

He's not going to expressly say, I didn't want to leave time on the clock to let AZ turn a 17-10 lead into a 24-10 lead, because I'm not fully confidence my offense would be able to execute.

Moore knows he has an uphill battle with either QB. It is what it is. It's unlikely the Saints are going to have many games where the offense explodes, and they can simply score enough to run away from teams. The Saints path to victory is playing good defense and trying to make enough plays on offense to win close games. That means keeping it a one-score game going into HT was probably a better option than thinking his offense was going to move quickly and score before the half.

Now, Rattler's performance in the 2:00 situation to at least give the Saints a chance may change his thinking. But in Game 1, at that point in the game, I would be dollars to donuts his thinking late in the 1st half (regardless of what he said) was "let's make sure this stays a one score game and try to win it in the second half, starting with us getting ball first."

The likelihood of the risk: going down 10-14 points before the half, outweighed the likelihood of the reward, the Saints scoring before the half.

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He's not going to expressly say, I didn't want to leave time on the clock to let AZ turn a 17-10 lead into a 24-10 lead, because I'm not fully confidence my offense would be able to execute.

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The likelihood of the risk: going down 10-14 points before the half, outweighed the likelihood of the reward, the Saints scoring before the half.

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bullshite. You're a professional football team and you're playing scared? Rattler gave us a chance to win. Penalties and poor game management killed us.

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take accountability

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You mean “take responsibility”?

Accountability is another one of those words that everyone misuses now. Lol

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yup. that was a greenhorn frickup. if he did not admit it that is even worse.

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Finally. Someone on this board is willing to be objective

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He's not going to expressly say, I didn't want to leave time on the clock to let AZ turn a 17-10 lead into a 24-10 lead, because I'm not fully confidence my offense would be able to execute.

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I watched it go down. Your explanation makes sense. But, I honestly don't even think he considered calling the timeouts while we were still on defense. I'm basing that on the way that he answered the question when he was asked.

If he had said, "It's the first game of the year, we are getting the ball back after halftime, I just thought it was best at this time to play it conservative. There will certainly be other times when we will be more aggressive in a similar situation." then we would know what the reason was and at least have confidence that he's not overwhelmed with the situation.

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No they can’t, because they have slightly different meanings.

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synonyms sometimes have slightly different meanings

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Is it scared or smart?

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Neither I think it was a brain fart. They asked him about it before half and his reasoning made no sense and then he changed his answer post game.

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What is there is a penalty or two on the two minute drive and we’re punting back to them with 1:30 left. He knew we weren’t coming back from being double digit deficit.

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Ok why not take a timeout at 1:00 minute or less? He had multiple opportunities. There's no excuse. Just own it. Its sad that yall are defending this.

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TigerBait2008

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You have any insight to add? Of course you don't bitch

He had 2-3 chances to call a timeout with plays run in between. IMO that was intentional, because other coordinators are also in his ear, but we'll never know for sure.