NFL conference championship Sunday

[Scout]

These are two damaged teams limping into the Super Bowl.

Hurts is hurt. He can't throw deep at all with anything on it.

Mahomes can't run and is playing in serious pain.

 

[outofplace]

Lemme splain -- or at least, here's what I think happened.

So the second down play was an incomplete pass, and the clock was stopped at 10:29 (I think that's right -- I'm doing that off the top of my head).

When the ball was spotted for the third down play, it was spotted incorrectly. As the play clock ran down, one of the officials noticed that, and referee Torbert ran in to stop the play and respot the ball. He then told the clock operator to reset the play clock to 10 seconds, and to "start the clock on my signal."

He meant to start the play clock, but apparently, the clock operator started both the play clock AND the game clock (which should have remained stopped since the previous play was an incomplete pass). Just before the snap, an official (was that the back judge or the field judge -- I can't remember which is which?) saw the clock running and came racing on the field to stop the play. But because no one saw him (since, as Batman noted, he was 30 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage), the play was run before anyone realized it shouldn't have been run.

The officials then huddled and Torbert announced that play had been shut down before the snap. He then told the clock operator to reset the game clock to 10:29 (again, off the top of my head) and the play clock to 10 seconds, and to start the play clock but not the game clock on his signal.

That's how I saw it, too, at least after I saw the replay with the view of that official.

 

[exmediahack]

Whole lot of top-notch prognosticators last night.





Never. Gamble.

True for 98% of sports bettors.

 

[Chef2]

We can pretty much all agree that there were mistakes made in the officiating…..but for some people to suggest that the game was fixed is complete rubbish.

 

[poindexter]

God, two guys I watch football with do nothing but talk about their parlays… that never hit.

It's worse than fantasy talk during the game.

We have a gambling thread. Why its on Anything Goes and not the Sports forum, I've never figured out. But not sure why we see interjections of their in-game wagers at +550 on this thread.

I have a bookie. One of my friends started with said bookie this weekend. We were watching the Chiefs game with a cross-section of people last night, and friend could not stop telling everyone he needed a rushing td from all four teams yesterday to complete his prop bet, and was rooting for a Chiefs rushing td to the annoyance of pretty much everyone but me.

Very few people care about your fantasy team or your in-game betting.

 

[poindexter]

The 3rd-9 mess was a mess for sure, but they eventually got it right. You can see the field judge coming in to kill the play.

But yet he doesn't come in to kill the play. He starts to come in and waves his arms from 30 yards away... and just stops. Right? Did I see that correctly?

On late field goals this year, with a late time out, I've seen refs come in to stop the play like they were heroes rushing in to throw themselves on a grenade. This one, it looks like the field judge ends up saying, "ah, fork it."

 

[BTExpress]

I can't believe this is even up for debate.

It's not. Subject kind of steered to out of bounds plays in general, where often there is little evidence and/or intent of "roughness".

Don't think anyone is disputing a flag should have been called last night.

 

[da man]

But yet he doesn't come in to kill the play. He starts to come in and waves his arms from 30 yards away... and just stops. Right? Did I see that correctly?

On late field goals this year, with a late time out, I've seen refs come in to stop the play like they were heroes rushing in to throw themselves on a grenade. This one, it looks like the field judge ends up saying, "ah, fork it."

Remember the guy who snatched the ball away from the holder? I thought he might block the kick.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Finally catching up with 49ers-Eagles highlights (would rather watch the local Sunday sports wrapup at 11:30 than endure SportsCenter) and one question comes to mind: Does the NFL no longer have the third QB rule, a QB who is inactive but, if used, means the other two QBs are out? OK, didn't do the best job of explaining it, but think I captured the spirit of the thing.

Nope. They needed an EBUQB like the NHL's EBUG yesterday.

 

[poindexter]

Remember the guy who snatched the ball away from the holder? I thought he might block the kick.

Right?!?!!!

 

[jr/shotglass]

We have a gambling thread. Why its on Anything Goes and not the Sports forum, I've never figured out. But not sure why we see interjections of their in-game wagers at +550 on this thread.

I have a bookie. One of my friends started with said bookie this weekend. We were watching the Chiefs game with a cross-section of people last night, and friend could not stop telling everyone he needed a rushing td from all four teams yesterday to complete his prop bet, and was rooting for a Chiefs rushing td to the annoyance of pretty much everyone but me.

Very few people care about your fantasy team or your in-game betting.

This is one of those things that has swung so far the other direction, it's become irritating the other way.

It's conversation, FFS. If you don't care about my fantasy team, or qtlaw's, or oop's, let it go in one ear and out the other.

 

[da man]

KC didn't convert but there was a penalty on the play despite the sack that gave them a first down, so the botched situation led to the drive being extended since they would have had to originally punt.

The penalty gave the Chiefs five yards and a new set of downs, but they would up gaining just one more yard and running 45 seconds off the game clock before punting.

So the effect of the whole do-over was 6 yards and 45 seconds. The one complication to that is the Bengals used a timeout during that time, though it didn't affect the game clock — it came while the clock was stopped after an incompletion — so the total effect was 6 yards, 45 seconds and a Cincinnati timeout.

Did that affect the outcome of the game? Of course, we'll never know what would have happened IF, but as it turned out, neither team scored in the ensuing possessions and the Bengals got the ball with 2:30 left, the score tied and a chance to seize the game — and they didn't.