{"id":604856,"date":"2025-12-16T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/604856\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:02:13","slug":"patriots-hc-mike-vrabel-would-like-to-see-slight-change-to-nfl-game-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/604856\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots HC Mike Vrabel would like to see slight change to NFL game operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBORO \u2014 The Patriots knew they had six seconds left in the first half of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/12\/14\/best-and-worst-what-we-learned-from-patriots-35-31-loss-to-bills\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s loss<\/a> to the Bills, but head coach Mike Vrabel\u2019s play-calling might have changed depending on the exact time on the play clock.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel said Monday morning that he\u2019d like to see decimal points added to the game clock.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots ultimately decided to run up the middle with Rhamondre Stevenson at the end of the half. Stevenson slid after gaining 11 yards before Vrabel called a timeout. He might have elected to call a passing play if he knew what decimal was attached to those six seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought about taking a shot. Is it 6.1 on the clock, or is it 6.9? I would hate to look up there and have a go ball from the 30-yard line, and look up and have it be zero (seconds) and not one, and then look like an idiot. So if it was 6.9, I would have taken a shot. If it was 6.1, I probably would have done what we did, if that makes any sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for any of you that are interested in the technology of football, they have considered that. It came up a few years ago that I heard about having the NBA clock, and this is where I think our fans would like it. I think the coaches would like it. Is there 11.9 and you don\u2019t have any time outs, or is it 11.1 and can get it clocked, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game clock actually didn\u2019t even run on that final offensive play of the first half, so the officials had to estimate there being two seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots ultimately settled for a field goal at the end of the half to make the score 24-7. The defense allowed touchdowns in four straight possessions in the second half, while the Patriots scored just one more touchdown, resulting in a 35-31 loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 The Patriots knew they had six seconds left in the first half of Sunday\u2019s loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,61050,208,836,19972,834,61051,61052,724,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-604856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-patriots","21":"tag-patriots","22":"tag-patriots-2025","23":"tag-patriots-game","24":"tag-patriots-news","25":"tag-patriots-schedule","26":"tag-patriots-stats","27":"tag-pats","28":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115728439561835339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}