No.. clock milking is bullshit and here is why:
You have 35 seconds of playclock... and 5 minute quarters.. with no TV timeouts and all of that bullshit.. the ratio does not hold up to what really exists. If the ratio were intact you would get to milk about 10 seconds off of the clock between each play.. but that isnt long enough to pick a play all of the time, so they give you the full 35. You can run through an entire quarter with 2 first downs in this game.. try doing that in the NFL.
Last year I punted the ball off after my first possession of the second half and pinned my opponent inside his own 5 with about 2 minutes left in the 3rd quarter.. The game ended on that same possession and he had yet to cross the 50... I would like to see you advance the ball 40 yards and take a quarter and a half to do it IRL.
Sure, you can say I could do the same, or I could stop him, etc. but if we are going to do that we might as well allow the QB to run 90% of the time, go for it on 4th all the time and whatever else bullshit we want to do since 'anyone' can do the same thing. If we are playing a sim leauge, try and keep the clock milking more realistic.
I think clock milking should be met with automatic losses if you do it excessively.
And you mentioned running with Vick and I got flashes of Williams in my head when you wrote that.
(I was there at Heinz for that mess, btw)
