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Originally Posted by wildcatter
You may be right - it's just trying to make a simple point.
You're saying if an official misses a call by blowing his whistle early, the time elapsed shouldn't be measured to the point where his whistle is blown - it should end at some later point as if the whistle was never blown.
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No. The case you quote is when the clock is started properly and then doesn't stop when the whistle is blown. In that case the replay is used to determine when the whistle was blown, so that the clock can be set to that point.
I'm saying that the case under consideration is different since the clock never started in the first place. So to say that the case you quoted implies that replay should be used to determine when the whistle blew doesn't seem to me like a correct interpretation.
I just think that when the whistle blew as opposed to when the ball hit something oob isn't really an important distinction. The ref blew the whistle for the oob violation, and was a little quick on it. The tape showed that the ball did indeed go oob, and that the time between when the ball was touched legally inbounds, and when the ball gained oob status was 1.1 seconds. I dont understand why that's so hard to grasp. (I;m not dirrecting these comments to you, wildcatter, but to others who seem to think they know better than 4 of the top officials in the country).