Miami Shakes U Like A Hurricane: A Miami Hurricanes Podcast
Oct 14, 2026 · 26 min · 14 segments
In the wake of spectacular examples of clock mismanagement by the Eagles and Commanders, today's Call Sheet podcast asks the question, "Is it really that hard?" Join Coach Smith as he dives in on the…
Kevin SmithHost
this is kind of, uh, a l- a lot of the Belichick check tree of thinking that we're gonna talk about here real quick.
Are you related, you related to Ronnie, Ronnie Smith?" Uh, yeah, I just say yeah at this point.
[chuckles] What am I gonna say? Homer Smith, former coach at West Point, wrote a book called "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management," "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management." Now there's a sexy title, right? There's one for the ladies right there.
I mean, he was, he was a dude who liked analytics and liked to be literal, and if there's one thing he loved in life, it was being on time.
And so he wrote a book called "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management," which has been passed around the NFL for decades now.
And they've passed it around because it's kind of become the bible of clock management.
He lays out an entire strategy for managing the clock, from how to properly spike the football to how many plays you should run if you're trying to bleed the clock down to a certain amount of time versus How much time you need to take in between plays.
What, what essentially now coaches refer to kind of as either their four-minute strategy, their shutdown strategy, right? We're ahead and we have the ball, and we wanna burn as much time as possible.
How do you go about doing that? To, you know, the opposite to, you know, your two minute, your, your hurry up, you know, "Hey, we're, we're behind by however many points.
We gotta get down the field in a very short amount of time." Homer Smith took, took you through all of that stuff.
And, you know, in, in the book, he, he paraphrases Sun Tzu and "The Art of War." I mean, he, he goes deep on this subject.
If you wanna know anything about how to manage the clock, read "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management." And what is so fascinating about that is, you know, the information is readily available, and yet we still see these spectacular failures.
this is kind of, uh, a l- a lot of the Belichick check tree of thinking that we're gonna talk about here real quick.
Are you related, you related to Ronnie, Ronnie Smith?" Uh, yeah, I just say yeah at this point.
[chuckles] What am I gonna say? Homer Smith, former coach at West Point, wrote a book called "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management," "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management." Now there's a sexy title, right? There's one for the ladies right there.
I mean, he was, he was a dude who liked analytics and liked to be literal, and if there's one thing he loved in life, it was being on time.
And so he wrote a book called "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management," which has been passed around the NFL for decades now.
And they've passed it around because it's kind of become the bible of clock management.
He lays out an entire strategy for managing the clock, from how to properly spike the football to how many plays you should run if you're trying to bleed the clock down to a certain amount of time versus How much time you need to take in between plays.
What, what essentially now coaches refer to kind of as either their four-minute strategy, their shutdown strategy, right? We're ahead and we have the ball, and we wanna burn as much time as possible.
How do you go about doing that? To, you know, the opposite to, you know, your two minute, your, your hurry up, you know, "Hey, we're, we're behind by however many points.
We gotta get down the field in a very short amount of time." Homer Smith took, took you through all of that stuff.
And, you know, in, in the book, he, he paraphrases Sun Tzu and "The Art of War." I mean, he, he goes deep on this subject.
If you wanna know anything about how to manage the clock, read "The Complete Handbook of Clock Management." And what is so fascinating about that is, you know, the information is readily available, and yet we still see these spectacular failures.
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