Andy Reid Tries To Explain Why There Was Nothing Wrong With His Clock Management Against Patriots

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has been blasted in the past for his clock management issues during games. So when the Chiefs took five minutes to go down field and score on the Patriots to cut the deficit to seven, but only left about a minute and a half on the clock he got blasted yet again. The team did not appear to be in any kind of rush during the drive even though they were down by 14 points; something that completely baffled many people.

According to Reid, there was nothing wrong with his clock management. During a recent radio appearance he tried to explain why.

While appearing on 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City he talked about clock management and pretty much said what you would expect:

“I think clock management’s very important,” Reid said. “Every situation’s different. It’s a fluid situation on the spot and you’ve got to go off of feel. . . . This situation, I think, was handled right.”

Right? You scored with a minute and a half to go and you had to kickoff to New England? How could leaving such little time without getting the ball back possibly be right? Well--if they receovered an onside kick....

“I thought we handled it right,” Reid said. “You give us a minute on the clock and three timeouts, we feel like we can move the ball pretty good.”

So basically he was counting on the onside kick being recovered. During the season 62 were tried and only nine successful. His team had tried two and failed to recover either--yet that was what he was counting on.

If a key part of his strategy was recovering an onside kick, something that only succeeded 14.5 percent of the time during the season, maybe there really wasn't a clock management issue.

Maybe the issue is the coach.

[PFT]

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