Why the timeout

Rex Ryan’s strategy was so profoundly stupid that it fooled Caldwell

You make sense of it.

“I didn’t care [if they were],” Caldwell said. “I was going to make sure they couldn’t. Make them snap the ball. They were in field goal range.”

Sorry, but I have to interrupt to remind you that the Jets were in 40-percent field goal range. That’s what 2-for-5 is. It’s 40 percent. Back to Caldwell.

“They were in field goal range,” he was saying. “So we wanted to try to make them snap the ball as many times as they possibly could. Wasn’t going to let them just sit there and take [the clock] down. So [we] used a timeout in that situation.”