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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Yeah, this definitely exposed a flaw in the rules, like the Immaculate Reception and whoever fumbled the ball forward towards the goal line with the game clock running down a few decades ago.
I think the easiest way to address it is this like an offensive penalty has a run off if a defensive penalty if accepted the clock should be put back to what the clock said when the ball was snapped I thought of that last night too and I am shocked this as not come up before
My teenage son picked up on this, too. The NFL needs to address this big time.
He said: "Hey, Dad! They had 12 guys on the field but the Pats still lost 5 seconds! So every defensive team should just have 12 or 13 guys on the field for every Hail Mary play until the clock runs out!"
Smart kid, my son.
I think the penalty against the defense needs to be more punitive than that. Otherwise, teams might still put 12 guys back there hoping to tire out the WR's and TE's or maybe get someone injured.
When the flag was thrown, I thought it was PI at first. Was momentarily elated.
game can't end on defensive penalty...so the Giants could not keep 12 guys on the field.
I think if the refs feel that the Giants are consistently doing on purpose over and over again, they can give the Giants' unsportsman like penalties. That would a 15 yard penalty. If Brady keeps on seeing that, he could consistently spike the ball while only costing 1-2 seconds and moving the ball down the field.
If the Giants did it on purpose, it would only really work once, maybe twice before it would get costly.
Well, now that the weakness has been exposed, the NFL Rules Committee will have to come up with some iron-clad that's totally unambiguous.
If they make the penalty severe enough for the D, 12 men on the field will only happen by accident, and if it does, it shouldn't cost the Offense *any* time. In fact, they should come out ahead in terms of the clock.
Well, now that the weakness has been exposed, the NFL Rules Committee will have to come up with some iron-clad that's totally unambiguous.
yah, just like they did about fake injuries/flops to slow down the offense after the Jest game last year. Somehow I don't think it's gonna happen :nooo: