NFL Clock Status
Watching the SB, I noted that the WH wound the clock on the sack of Brady in the last minutes of the game. Yet in other cases, we see the WH stop the clock on a sack.
What are the timing rules regarding stopping/winding the clock for sacks? Is there something special about the last minutes of the game? |
I do not know all the specifics of the timing rules, but I do know that there are a stopped clock on a QB sack normally. Then the clock is started on the ready. And I believe some clock status changes inside 4 minutes and inside of 2 minutes on when the clock would start on a incomplete pass for example.
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What I like about NFL signal is that there is usually (and likely always) a positive signal.
A positive signal means a signal exists even if nothing changes in the game. In this example, the clock status doesn't change. A positive signal is good because it forces the officials to communicate better and it prevents the case of an official forgetting to do a signal and unintendedly communicating incorrectly. |
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