Good Morning Football sounds off on Todd Bowles’ unused timeout

Todd Bowles’ last timeout in the second half has been a big point of controversy in the NFL world, and the GMFB crew gave their takes on the matter.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ season may be over, but one incident in their Divisional Round matchup against the Detroit Lions might not be going away any time soon.

Bucs head coach [autotag]Todd Bowles[/autotag] was criticized on Sunday after he held a timeout at the end of the game when the Detroit Lions were kneeling down far too early. Had he used that timeout, the clock would have stopped with about 36 seconds left, and the Lions could have been forced to kick a field goal or punt on fourth down. Bowles has defended his decision in the media, most recently telling reporters on Monday that he thought there was no point — while some have speculated that there was a gentleman’s agreement between him and Dan Campbell, Bowles asserted there was no such thing.

“It’s not a gentleman’s agreement. They were in field goal range. We’d have had 12 seconds, calculated, after using that timeout to come back from it,” Bowles told reporters. “Then we’d have been down 11 points, so it’s kind of pointless. You kind of know when the game is over. The game was over.”

The crew at Good Morning Football discussed this event during the “We In Or We Out” segment, where the panelists give their support or derision for the topic. All four were “out” on Bowles’ decision, and it came with some harsh words from the panelists.

“I don’t even want to hear the word ‘probability’,” GMFB panelist Kyle Brandt said. “You’re like, ‘yeah, but then they have to make the two [point conversion]. So maybe they make the two [point conversion] — we’ll never know. It’s the playoffs.”

You can take a look at the five-minute segment above.

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