One of the favorite pastimes of Pittsburgh Steelers fans is criticizing the clock management of head coach Mike Tomlin. By and large, that hasn’t been an issue this year—in fact, I can’t recall a time at any point this season in which it has really been discussed—but there was an incident just before halftime in Sunday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts.
In spite of the fact that the Steelers had all three of their timeouts after recording a tackle to set up 3rd and 18 for the Colts within the final minute of the first half, Indianapolis deep in their own territory, Tomlin did not call a timeout at the end of the second-down play.