[cowbyfan1]

Originally posted by Patton
Situation: Clock is running, RFP has been blown and then you realize there's an injured player on defense. You stop the clock and the player is replaced. Will the clock restart on the RFP and the offense get a full 25 second clock?

The reason I ask, in a game last year, the defense was down by a couple with around two minutes to play and no timeouts. The offense is about to snap the ball when I see a linebacker hunched over. The coach starts yelling at me to stop the clock for an injury. The linebacker stands up straight and yells back he's fine. The coach continues to yell "stop the clock" and the player keeps saying that he's OK. It was obvious that the coach was crying wolf.

Looking back on it now, I probably should have taken the coach's "injured" player out of the game. However, this would have allowed the offense to run another 25 seconds off the clock, correct? Now the coach would have been really upset. Any thoughts?

[Edited by Patton on Aug 27th, 2005 at 12:04 AM]

It is up to the official, not the coach. No time out, keeing the clock going here. To any extent, yes clock starts on the RFP.