Chiefs mismanage clock in failed comeback attempt

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The received the ball at their 20-yard line with 6:29 to go in the fourth quarter. They were down by two scores. And while the situation was not ideal, it was not completely untenable.But in a series of events that will again challenge Kansas City head coach Andy Reid's late-game clock management, the weren't able to put in their first score until the 1:18 mark. They failed an onside kick attempt and .The advanced the ball to the ' 1-yard line at the three-minute mark after a 19-yard pa s from to wideout . At that moment, they had all of their timeouts. The next play was a run for a lo s by which ended up burning a full minute off the clock before the two-minute warning. The team was then hit with a false start penalty and followed that by throwing a ball where the wideout was tackled in play.During all this, the seemed to have no sense of urgency.  Wesley Woodyard Jersey The team was still huddling down near the goal line as the final seconds ticked away."We wanted to get a play off right there. We had 20 seconds," Reid said after the game. "It was 2:20 on the clock. We wanted to make sure that we got our best personnel in for that play and we didn't get that done."He insisted the were in their standard hurry-up offense."We went hurry-up offense," he said. "We do that normally when we're down by two scores. Time was of the e sence. We got down to the one-yard line and we end up going backwards."While part of the i sue was execution for sure, this was just the most blatant example of suspicious clock management on Saturday. In many situations when it would seem Kansas City had another play call in its hip pocket, they would revert back to a time-consuming huddle.Clock management is such a nebulous aspect of the game. Rarely is a coach known for his mastery, and at times all 32 head coaches have been lambasted for their misuse of the clock. But the ' performance Saturday night will inevitably cause fans to a sociate the game with Reid's performance in the against New England back in 2005. In nearly identical fashion, the milked more than four minutes off the clock while trailing by 10.  Abdullah Anderson Jersey