NFL Week 5 Reaction: Bills win OT CLASSIC vs Rams, Eagles & Commanders CLOCK FIASCOS | Nick Wright

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Welcome in What's Wright? with Nick Wright episode 514 As always, this episode of What's Wright? with Nick Wright is presented to you by Boost Mobile. If you're watching on YouTube, we are not live on YouTube. Typically, we do these Tuesday mornings before I head into work to do my hit with Colin Cowhert every Tuesday. And then, of course, First Things First. Today, not because of anyone other than myself, we had to change schedules. Real life hit me in the face a bit this week. And because of that, I just, you know, for the loyal audience members, I will let you guys know, there might be in the coming days, weeks, months, a few more of those, oh man, why aren't you live this morning? Just please trust that anytime I can be, I will keep to the real schedule. And when we can't keep to the real schedule, I will do my best to sometime that same day, get these out. So, but it's also another good reason, again, to, you know, I don't show up when you guys expect me to show up. Now I ask you to do something, subscribe to the channels on YouTube, Spotify, or iTunes. That way, if it doesn't populate exactly when you think it's supposed to, whenever we get it up, we will, it will show up automatically in your RSS feed or on YouTube, however you do it. However, the downside, in addition to you guys, me delaying, you know, you guys for 10, 11 hours of not doing it live this morning is, I have to go stone solo here as Demonsay and the bulk of the Blue Duck crew are not able to, you know, join us right now because I pushed everything to later in the day. So again, apologies for that. It also will probably lead to a slightly quicker show. Usually Tuesday shows are this 90 minute extravaganza. We will still touch on every game in what will go down in history as the weekend clock management died in the NFL. Up to and including the final moments of Monday Night Football, everything this weekend seemed to be defined by teams not understanding time score situation. And in fact, that is kind of before I even get to Monday Night Football where I want to start the show. But first, straight to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. We're not going to get into the baseball playoffs here. We're not going to get into the NBA seasons one week away. We're not going to get into the WNBA Finals because it is football season on What's Wright? with Nick Wright. And we are going to do football, football, football here. However, before I get into any of the games, Sunday morning in London, guys can't figure out time score situation. Sunday afternoon in the States, guys can't figure out time score situation. And then even including Monday night, the very end of Monday night, guys can't figure out time score situation. And I will get into the nitty gritty of it when we discuss each and every one of those games. But this is, and I hate to be, you know, Mr. Captain Nerd here, but this is the biggest and most glaring market inefficiency left, maybe in pro sports, but certainly in the NFL, where you are a hard capped league, where everyone in theory has the same amount of finite resources.

The amount you can spend on free agents, the trade capital you have via the draft, all of that is to level the playing field. The schedule is set to level the playing field. Everything is to try to make the edges as small as possible. And while teams will spend seemingly infinite in a quest to build the best roster, even though everyone can really only spend the same amount, or to find the next quarterback, or on getting Jim Harbaugh to come coach your team, or keeping Sean McVeigh as your head coach, or we got coordinators now making $3 to $5 million a year. The fact that so few teams seem willing to, I can't believe you need to have it, but bring in someone, not only to be a clock and game management expert, but to drill your head coach, your offensive coordinator, and your quarterback into understanding the situations at hand here. Because, I guess, you know what? I will get into it somewhat here, each individual instance, why they were so glaring. That way, we can just do the clock management stuff here, and then we will discuss the other pieces of those games. In chronological order that they occurred, in the London game, folks killing Nick Sirianni for kicking off, as opposed to kicking it into the back of the end zone, those people are misguided. That was a 50-50, 55-45 call. There is a good argument as to why you would kick off in that spot. Why you would say, with 8 seconds left, with the opposing team having the best, the strongest leg kicker in the league, I think just kicking it out of the back of the end zone giving Trevor Lawrence the ball in the 35, where if he completes a 15-yard pass to the sidelines, we can lose, that we think it's smarter to kick off, cover the kick, and make it so it is Hail Mary or nothing else, unless we give up one of the longest kick returns any team's given up in the league all year. That was, that wasn't the catastrophe game management wise. That wasn't where Sirianni and Hertz and Company lost the game. It is where they lost the game, but that was, the failure there was not, I don't want to say it wasn't preventable, but it was a physical error in kick coverage. That can happen, and kicking it out the back of the end zone, it wasn't the same as Ravens-Cowboys because Ravens had a timeout, the Jags didn't have a timeout in this scenario, but it was justifiable to kick it, even though you had given up the big kick return early in the game. That was justifiable. What was not justifiable was the sequence when Philly had the ball with 25 seconds left after Jacksonville uses their second timeout. And this is where time score situation must be understood. If you are the Philadelphia Eagles, and the other team has one timeout left, and you are at their 34 yard line, and there is 25 seconds left, there is no scenario that should exist where you are ever kicking off.