It can be often overlooked but clock and game management are a huge part of winning football.

And never was there a better example than Sunday’s NFL game between the New York Jets and Cleveland.

With 2:02 to play in the game, the Brown had a 24-17 lead and the ball 1st-and-10 at the Jets’ 12-yard line. New York was out of timeouts.

Cleveland handed the ball off to Nick Chubb who scored on a 12-yard TD run.

Here’s the problem: Had Chubb slid down short of the goal line, Cleveland could have run out the clock and secured the win.

Instead, they scored what looked like a meaningless touchdown at the time.

It proved to be anything but, however. Cade York subsequently missed the ensuing PAT and the Jets miraculously scored 2 touchdowns in the final 1:55 to pull off a most unlikely 31-30 win.

It was an otherwise great day for Chubb, the former standout at Georgia. He rushed 17 times for 87 yards and 3 touchdowns in the game.

But had it been 2 scores instead, his team wins.

The morale of the story: clock management matters.