Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:41am
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Originally Posted by OKREF
Well, to be fair, they weren't trying to conserve time(they wanted time to elapse), Were they really trying to save yardage? Not really, the intent of the pass was to run out the clock. I believe the only reason this was called was he was still in the pocket, and no receiver in area of pass. Now by the letter of the law, those are factors in IG, however, I'm not 100% sure I would have called IG on this play, but can certainly understand why it was. The real error was the misapplication of the penalty allowing an untimed down.
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Depends on your definition of conserve time. They wanted to keep more of the game time for themselves instead of sharing it with the other team :-)
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