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Teams must control the clock to win

By By Ryan Early
NFL Insider

Monday, September 22, 2003

Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law Sometimes all you have to do to win a ball game is keep the ball. If you have the ball and the opponent doesn't, he can't score. There's nothing more basic about football strategy than that. On Sunday, there were five games where the winner had a rushing yards per play average below normal, yet never went away from the run. They were patient. They didn't turn the ball over (or if they did, they got it right back.) And they kept their opponent off the f ...

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