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12 Men on the Field on the 1st Hail Mary - Needs to be addressed
I was just reading an article on that play and it's bizarre that you can have 12 men on defense with the game on the line, and it only costs you 5 yards while the other team (the Patriots) still loses every second despite the penalty. Doesn't make much sense. :rolleyes:
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yah smart move by giants. nfl needs to tweak the rule and allow teams to put time back on the clock that was lost on the play. thats all
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I thought the same thing after the penalty. If I were the Giants I would have sent out 12 players again. If you have 80 yards to go in under a minute, Id pass up 5 yards for 10 seconds off the clock.
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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. |
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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.
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The solution is to put EXTRA TIME BACK ON THE CLOCK if the defense has too many men on the field inside of 2 minutes. Maybe 8 to 10 seconds minimum, or more if the play took longer than that to develop.
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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
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The famous Holy Roller game (Raiders at Chargers - 1978 season) - YouTube My friends and I used to re-create that play when we played touch football out in the greenbelt as kids. We always got a laugh, that play was hilarious. And a typical example of the Raiders cheating their way to victory well before the era of instant replay. |
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