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Originally posted by cmathews
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Originally posted by carolinaRRREF
That is good enough for me. The NFL says when they make mistakes so if they were happy, then it is just bias fans whining. Like that never happens.
This HAS to be a joke.
There were two blatantly bad calls: the illegal block, and the timeout that was granted well after the play clock hit zero.
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so mr rrref, do you know when the time out was requested or only when the referee signalled time out??? Try this scenario: Play clock running down at 1 second the coach screams "TIME OUT" the official hears it and checks the play clock and sees 1 second, the official now glances to the sideline to confirm that it was the head coach that requested the time out,the play clock is now at 0. The official grants and signals the time out, the clock has now read 0 for a second or so...no foul for delay of game. There are times, for several reasons, that the time out request is heard and acknowledged, and made in time, and the actual granting takes a little while to get processed....
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Exactly. Another reason is this. The Back Judge is responsible for the play clock. The Referee is the one that the QB turned to and signaled timeout. The Referee had no idea the clock was on zero since that's not his responsibility, the Back Judge isn't watching to see if a timeout is being called before he tosses the flag. So the two officials come together to determine what happened first and clearly there is no way of knowing if the T/O was first or the Delay, so the logical thing to do is go with the T/O. If you watch the game again you'll actually see the headlinesman running in signalling timeout, and that would indicate to me that the head coach called timeout prior to the clock hitting zero and prior to the QB calling for timeout. But the NFL philosophy is to go with the T/O instead of the delay of game in those close plays like that.