I’ve said it a few times. Everyone involved seems to be trying to talk around forgetting that they had the time out.
Yeah. If that is what Caleb is saying he, clearly didn’t know the situation. All part of learning. QB has to be the smartest guy in Offence. No 2 ways about it.
Raiders same thing with Pierce and his staff. Why spike the ball at 15 seconds if you were not going to run an actual play for more yards on 3rd down? 1st down play ended at 28 seconds, so had the full play clock to use up and wait for 5 seconds or less to spike if they were ok with that distance for the game winning FG.
My evaluation of the situation is that the Raiders were too slow to spike the ball. Took 13 seconds to spike it after Abdullah went down with 28 seconds left. Shave 2 seconds off that to give them 17 seconds, that's enough time for a 4 second play and 12 seconds to spike the ball. But, because, they were slow on the spike, 14 seconds to make the line of the gain and spike the ball was borderline (could end up like Dal vs SF in the PO with the Dak run and failed spike). So, he then opts to just try to kill 4/5 seconds and his team can't even execute that properly.
That falls on the coaches for not having their guys prepared to execute late game spikes and getting organized and lined up quickly to save time. Pierce took a downgrade for his late game decisions. LV played KC tough on the road, but situational football cost them. Is Pierce a guy who can handle late game situational football decisions? And is he coaching his team to be ready for them?
They want to blame the refs, sure. But, then it's still 3rd and 8 from the 38 and a 55 yard attempt in the cold. If they were not comfortable with the time left to gain 3 yards, then trying to gain 8 is even harder and going to eat up another 2 seconds. They didn't hit a sideline throw that drive. KC, kept everything in the middle.
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