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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
In watching the 5-second play again. I'm not even sure a 5 second call was being called. The T only swung his arm 3 times at the time of the whistle and had started it properly. It was certainly no where near 5 seconds. I'm wondering if both of them were whistling for the timeout and were not sure that is what each other had.
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I think you're absolutely right. The baseline official raises his hand to stop the clock but does not call the violation, I think he sees the inbounder signaling, and withholds the timeout signal when he realizes its a double whistle.