Manage a two-minute drill with timeouts left
Reinforce clock-management order from coaching clinics. A timeout is not burned before the spike or the sideline, and the spike is not used when a timeout would save a down.
- Know timeouts remaining.
- Know the line to gain.
- Know the play clock.
- Use the sideline or a spike according to the taught rule for this down.
- Call a timeout only when it saves a down or sets the field goal.
- Have the kicking team ready before the last snap if that is the plan.
- Do not spike when you still have a timeout and need the down.
- Do not let the play clock run out while arguing a prior spot.