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1. If the past two weeks have taught NFL head coaches anything, it’s that we—you, me, media people, fans, you know, goobers with internet connections—will never let you live it down if you make a clock-management mistake.
Each head coach in the postseason will have made tens of thousand of decisions—most of them good—in order to get his team into that position. They’ll make hundreds more during a game.