Broncos’ Vic Fangio regrets not calling at least one timeout during Titans’ winning drive: “I missed it”

Giv­en 13 hours to review his non-usage of time­outs late in the Bron­cos’ 16–14 loss to Ten­nessee on Mon­day night, coach Vic Fan­gio blamed him­self for not con­serv­ing pre­cious sec­onds of the clock.

Fan­gio said Mon­day he should have called time­out with 1:28 remaining.

“I did miss call­ing a time­out after the sec­ond-down play from the 29-yard line when (Der­rick) Hen­ry got 13 yards to our 16,” Fan­gio said dur­ing a video con­fer­ence. “I should have called time­out there. That’s the one I missed.”

Instead, the Titans didn’t snap it again until 49 sec­onds remain­ing and Stephen Gostkowski’s 25-yard game-win­ning field goal came with 17 sec­onds left, leav­ing the Bron­cos’ offense only three plays before time expired.

“It was total­ly my fault there,” Fan­gio said of not call­ing time after Henry’s run. “I had too much thought into what I was going to call next on defense and I missed it.”

If the first stage from learn­ing a mis­take is admit­ting a mis­take is made, Fan­gio and the Bron­cos can now move on to Sunday’s game at Pitts­burgh. But Fangio’s time­out issue should have nev­er been one. The Bron­cos’ offense had two chances to seal the game while lead­ing 14–13 and failed both times. Even worse, they used only 3 min­utes, 38 sec­onds, of the clock dur­ing those two possessions.

On the first dri­ve, run­ning back Melvin Gor­don gained 12 and sev­en yards on con­sec­u­tive car­ries. But safe­ty Ken­ny Vac­caro run-blitzed unblocked off the edge to stuff Gor­don for no gain on sec­ond-and‑3. On third-and‑3, out­side line­backer Harold Landry beat right tack­le Eli­jah Wilkin­son around the cor­ner to hit quar­ter­back Drew Lock as he was throw­ing (incom­ple­tion).

On the sec­ond dri­ve, there shouldn’t be a qualm with offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Pat Shurmur’s first-down call. He was try­ing to put the game away, but receiv­er Jer­ry Jeudy dropped an 8‑yard slant route and he had an open field in front of him. Two plays lat­er, on third-and-10 from the Titans’ 42, Lock over­threw receiv­er Dae­Sean Hamil­ton for a touch­down after Hamil­ton got two steps on cor­ner­back Mal­colm Butler.

“There’s just a lot of lit­tle things that we could have done bet­ter,” said Lock, who was 22-of-33 pass­ing for 216 yards and one touch­down. “I feel like it was promis­ing. (We) made some plays, but we want to be an elite offense. With some of the things we did, includ­ing some of the things I did myself, it just wasn’t elite.”

Giv­en yet anoth­er life­line, the Titans began to capitalize.

The Titans gained eight, nine, five, six and 11 yards to move to mid­field. Two plays lat­er, rook­ie cor­ner­back Michael Oje­mu­dia was flagged for pass inter­fer­ence (16 yards). Fangio’s first chance to call time­out was at the 2:16 mark — the Titans ran off 15 sec­onds before begin­ning the next play. Fangio’s sec­ond chance came the play after Ojemudia’s penal­ty when Tan­nehill threw six yards to receiv­er Adam Humphries. The play was over at the 1:47 mark — the Titans ran off 13 sec­onds before begin­ning the next play.

The next sequence was Fangio’s self-admit­ted error.

Hen­ry rum­bled 13 yards to the Bron­cos’ 16. The play was over at 1:28. Fan­gio passed on the time­out and the Titans went into full bleed-the-clock mode, not snap­ping it again until the 49-sec­ond mark.

On the ESPN broad­cast, ana­lyst Bri­an Griese said after Henry’s run: “When is Vic Fan­gio going to use his time­outs, right? … You can’t let this (Titans) team go in score with no time left.”

Dur­ing the off­sea­son, direc­tor of foot­ball ana­lyt­ics Mitch Tan­ney depart­ed the orga­ni­za­tion after serv­ing as a game-day clock/timeout man­age­ment voice in the coach’s box. Tanney’s posi­tion wasn’t filled and he is work­ing out­side of the NFL.

“All the coach­es chip in on that, the offen­sive coach­es when we’re on defense and vice ver­sa,” Fan­gio said. “It’s eas­i­er when we’re on offense and I’m not call­ing the plays. It was my miss on that and nobody else’s.”

Gostkows­ki lined up for his field goal at the 20-sec­ond mark. Fan­gio said a time­out wasn’t considered.

“I don’t think icing the kick­er was worth it because he had been strug­gling any­way,” he said.

Instead of hav­ing near­ly a minute to run a few plays to get into Bran­don McManus’ field goal range, the Bron­cos didn’t get it back until 17 sec­onds remained. They ran three plays before time expired.

Anoth­er squan­dered fourth-quar­ter lead in the books, Fangio’s chal­lenge this week is to make sure this Sep­tem­ber doesn’t repeat last September’s 0–4 start and Jeudy learns to look the foot­ball in before turn­ing up the field, Lock ben­e­fits from fac­ing a defense that was with­in one win of last year’s Super Bowl and, well, Fan­gio assess­es his deci­sion-mak­ing in the final two minutes.

“Every game is a learn­ing expe­ri­ence, win or lose, in this league,” Fan­gio said. “Your expe­ri­ences are what you build on, both good and bad, and hope­ful­ly we’ll build on the good things we did in this game and learn from the neg­a­tive things we did and move for­ward and keep devel­op­ing into a good team.”

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