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This data suggests that Reid’s management of timeouts might not be as bad as you think.NFL Network’s show Good Morning Football brought up Noonan’s research on the air — and on Tuesday Carlos Hyde Jersey , I also got an e-mail from Arrowhead Pride reader Ian Buckley, who said he’d originally seen it mentioned on NBC Sports Pro Football Talk.Thanks for that tip, Ian!Back in October, Noonan first sought to figure out if Green Bay Packers then-head coach Mike McCarthy was wasting more timeouts than other NFL head coaches (Sound like something you’ve thought about Andy Reid?). To figure this out, he downloaded NFL play-by-play data, counting the number of early timeouts for every team.Noonan concluded in October that McCarthy was, in fact, “wasting” more timeouts than other NFL head coaches, but he also noticed that successful teams like the Los Angeles Rams called plenty of early timeouts, too.So now that the Packers season has concluded Tyrann Mathieu Jersey , Noonan downloaded the play-by-play data for the whole 2018 season.This time, he took a somewhat different approach.Noonan also made the cutoff for early timeouts in the first half three minutes instead of five, because he’d seen in the previous data that most first-half timeouts are called in the final three minutes.And he also eliminated timeouts called before punts or field goals from his calculations.So what remains are what teams are able to do — either offensively or defensively — after calling a timeout.I’ve copied Noonan’s data and removed the columns for total EPA so you can focus on the key numbers — the raw numbers of timeouts called on offense and defense, and the average EPA for the successive play — and also included rankings (in parentheses) for each value.Ready to be a little surprised?Timeouts and EPAWhat we see here is that in 2018, Andy Reid called about an average number of early timeouts — almost all of them on offense.But most importantly, he got more benefit from having called those offensive timeouts than any other coach in the league.What this data does not take into account is the reason a timeout is taken — which can’t really be determined from the raw play-by-play data, and it sometimes isn’t even clear if you’re watching the game.Is the timeout taken because it’s third (or fourth)-and-long in a critical game situation, and you want to be sure that you’re calling the right play?Or is it because the play clock is about to expire... or you have too many men on the field... or the defense lined up in a way that would crush the next offensive play?There’s just no way to know any of this from the raw data.But here’s what we know: once a timeout is called — for whatever reason — coaches always have more time to figure out what to do on the next play.And in 2018, Andy Reid benefited more from those offensive timeouts than anyone else.Having said that, it should be noted that there’s a little bit of bias built-in to this data.A very good offensive team will tend to do better on offense whether a timeout is called or not Damien Williams Jersey , so it’s not a surprise that teams like the Chiefs and Rams would be near the top.Still, there are other teams near the top that aren’t offensive powerhouses, so it might be interesting to see how these post-timeout numbers would line up compared to the EPA average for all a team’s offensive (and defensive) plays.In any case, this is a fascinating project that Paul Noonan undertook, and my hat is off to him!I invite you to read his October article — and the most recent one, too — to learn more.