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[QUOTE="FrancoPizza, post: 1919573, member: 5195"]
Regarding the clock management on the last drive that everyone seems to vilify, having re-watched the footage, it's pretty clear that Graves was barely hanging on.  When you're feeling nausea the natural instinct is to slow down to process everything.  In hindsight the coaches should have used a timeout early in the drive when it became apparent he was not himself (even the announcers had speculated this on several occasions).  It's understandable that Graves is going to be a warrior and try to save that TO at all costs.   The trade-off - burning the clock - was not acceptable though.  That's where PP needed to step in and force the TO realizing your QB is shaken up.   It's just not as black-and-white as some of you make it out to be.  Intuition and unscripted decisions often separate the best game coaches.

I'm getting PO'd again realizing just how much time they had to start that last drive.  When they got down to the 20 yard line they clearly had to get away from what was working - running the trap option - because time was running out.   That allowed the Canes to pin their ears back.   With the ensuing loss of yardage on the sacks, it's amazing we still got the ball down to the 3 yard line.

The momentum of the game actually shifted on the previous red zone drive.  They say it's a game of inches, or in this case, milliseconds.   I embedded the time frame just before Graves gets hit and loses the ball.  He's already in his throwing motion - he spots Gedney wide open waving his hands at the bottom right of the screen:

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If he has another[B] 3/10ths of a second[/B], the pass is completed to Gedney and he waltzes into the endzone.  Then we're protecting a lead and Miami has to come from behind against an insane crowd.  Bottom line, we had 3 red zone scoring opportunities that resulted in 0 points.  Can't do that if you want to pull a historic upset.
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