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One last inside for Carpenter? Prob not

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Screw it. Dynamite the damn team.

100 percent correct

If you rewind to the made Carpenter kick, you can clearly hear the whistle blow to start the 25 second clock. Just before the clock expired...

If you watch the Bills D, actually quite often...

76 yard punt return by Reggie Bush. (Did that fill all of your requests?)

https://youtu.be/98o1bi7MIoQ

Roughing the passer? Where's Hochuli when you need him?

They are really seeing if Gronkowski can run with the ball...

Keep an eye on that storm. A wrong wind gust and it comes to you. Stay safe while partaking in this sh!+ show

I'm pretty sure there were a ton of calls by Ed Hoculi because head of officials Dean Blandino was in attendance. This was said in the Bills broadcast multiple times. That would also explain the 2 roughing the passer penalities on the Bills. (I do agree with the one where the defender landed on the QB's head. I don't agree with the way they enforced that call)

He wanted to make sure the QB was down do he could make the late hit call he made. Otherwise it would have been part of the sacking of the QB

Are all PFs an auto 1st? I don't think they are...

He could have had a 60 yarder there

Thanks for the .gif 26CB! So we are all in agreement that simultaneous catch is out, correct? So this rule is what states if the above play is a catch. Need to pass A, B and C. A- The ball is controlled by the receivers hands. Not once does the ball move from his hands, even during the hand fighting by the DB. (at least from what is seen in the .gif) B- Clearly he has control (from A) and has a 2 steps in bounds. C- The football move aspect. Here is the gray area of the rule, as Bandit cited: A player has the ball long enough to become a runner when, after his second foot is on the ground, he is capable of avoiding or warding off impending contact of an opponent, tucking the ball away, turning up field, or taking additional steps The keyword in this rule, to me is the -OR- -Avoiding or warding off impending contact - Fails -Tucking the ball away - Fails -Turning up field - Fails -Taking additional steps - Passes, Little takes 2 mores steps after control is gained. Yes, the ball is contested at this point, but its not a simultaneous catch, he is able to move forward by taking steps and is dragging the defender with him. IMO, the football move (per the NFL's rules) is the taking of additional steps after control and two feet. Again, as has been said way too many times, this rules stinks and is open to a ton of interpretation.

It seems as if your own statement would support it as a catch then. He initially catches the ball without contest, has control and the instant his 2nd foot is down is the time when the DB gets a hand on the ball. This is a catch in any other part of the field, and possibly even down by contact. But in the NFL, this is not a touchdown... This league has some pretty messed up rules.

I'll hazard a guess that the stadium will be New Era Field @ the Ralph"

There is no real connection to that rail line as of now. At least, not within walking distance of downtown.

It's an entirely different kind of job.

Striker....Striker?...Striker!!!

If the player is tackled backwards in the legal area of play, the ball will be spotted at the furthest forward spot the ball was before the tackle (forward progress). Since this is within the field of play, not OOB, the clock would run. Sammy was never touched. He rolled OOB on his own, which is possible because NFL requires a touch while down.

They now need to send the ref's to a "coin lobbing" school. We can't get a rule change on a catch, but the coin toss needs to be updated...

What I find most interesting is the rule allows the clock to run through that 5 minutes left mark in the 2nd half. Last night the Chiefs had a player go OOB at ~5:05 left in the 4th. The officials spotted the ball and the clock ran down until ~4:45, when the Chiefs snapped the ball. I dont believe that your second statement is true. If the yardage is given for forward progression, then the clock wouldn't stop. If they run out of bounds backwards, then that is the players intention, and the ball is spotted where he goes OOB. If he catches a ball and is tackled backwards OOB, the clock would not stop because the player did not intend (make a football move) to do so. Bolded statement is also untrue, there is no reason in that situation for the clock to restart. The player intended to go backwards OOB, clock is stopped until next snap.

Rule 4 Section 3 ARTICLE 2. SCRIMMAGE DOWN Following any timeout (3-37), the game clock shall be started on a scrimmage down when the ball is next snapped, except in the following situations: Whenever a runner goes out of bounds on a play from scrimmage, the game clock is started when an official spots the ball at the inbounds spot, and the Referee gives the signal to start the game clock, except that the clock will start on the snap: after a change of possession after the two-minute warning of the first half inside the last five minutes of the second half Edit: Formatted to read easier They changed the rules a few years back to speed up the game.