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There is a rule exception in the NFLE regarding clock status after incomplete passes. It starts when spotted, except after the 2 minute warning in the 1st half, and inside the last 5 minutes of the game.
In the NFL, the clock starts on the snap, no matter what.
All injury time-outs after the 2 minute warning will result in a charged time-out, except if the injury occurs on a play where there is a change of possession, field goal or try or if the injury is caused by a foul.
If the team in question are out of TO's, you can have an "Excess Time-Out" and a 10 second runoff, if the clock was running at the time and the score was tied or if Team A is behind. Note that you can only have a 10 second runoff against the offense, never against the defense!
If the excess TO was their 5th TO, they would also be penalized 5 yards, in addition to the 10 second runoff.
The defense can accept the foul and the runoff, or just the foul.
There are also another type of situations that can cause a runoff, and those are fouls to preserve time inside the last minute of a half. Fouls that prevent the snap (FST, illegal snap) and fouls that preserve time (ING, throwing ball OOB, ING) are subject to a 10 second runoff. In these cases, the score does not matter. If A has any timeouts left, they can use a TO to aviod the runoff.
As with excess TOs, the clock must be running when the foul occurs, and it is only applicable for offensive fouls. A "LOS foul" that does not prevent snap, such as ill. formation, ill. motion and so on, are not subject to a runoff.
There are several "periods" in the game timingwise: Normal timing, inside two minute warning in the first half, inside 5 minutes in the 4th qtr, inside two minute warning in 4th qtr and inside one minute in the half. Those are all times when the timing rules change in some way.
Good luck!
[Edited by Dommer1 on May 30th, 2005 at 10:11 AM]
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