Does anyone know why the clock didn't run

[Gambit]

it was "illegal contact while the qb was in the pocket"

if a QB rolls out, you can have contact with WRs -- defenders dont know if it is now a QB running play or still a pass--

while the QB is still in the pocket -- hands off the WR

during the play in question -- Fathead ended up rolling out of the pocket and throwing an incompletion

thanks--i truly had no idea what that meant and that we had another "tuck rule" that suddenly will be called all the time now

 

[PACardsFan]

Why did the clock not start back up

Did anyone else notice this? We sacked Ben with 19 seconds to go & the Steelers were called for holding on the play. We declined the penalty, but the officials never restarted the clock. Ben ran to the sidelines & got some instruction from Tomlin & the clock still hadn't started. Whiz was screaming on the sideline to no avail. We intercepted the next pass, but we almost got screwed big-time. I know the Steelers didn't have a TO, so what gives??????

 

[cardfan]

Kent Somers blog:

A timing issue

There have been a considerable number of fans wondering if the officials failed to start the clock correctly after the Cardinals declined a holding penalty in the final seconds Sunday.
I wondered, too, as did Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt. As it turns out the officials were correct.
The Steelers were called for holding on the play, which ended with Ben Roethlisberger being sacked for an 8-yard loss. The Cardinals declined the penalty and thought the clock should have started when the ball was spotted.
Instead, the officials started it on the snap.
Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt talked NFL vice president of officiating Mike Pereira on Monday. The rule is if a foul occurs during a play in the final two minutes of the first half and the final five minutes of the game, the clock starts on the snap.
There was no 10-second runoff because it was not a pre-snap penalty.
So the Cardinals, in effect, were penalized for making a good play.
It's a rule the league's competition committee could look at changing this off-season.
The Cardinals were going to decline the penalty in any case because they wanted the Steelers to lose a down.



Topics: SPORTS
posted by KentSomers on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 05:21 PM

 

[RenoFox]

Never question the Refs when playing the Stealers.
You will be labeled as whiners.

I've watched appx 12 Stealers games in the past 3 years, and it seems in every game the Refs consistently make calls/spots favoring the Stealers.

 

[Skkorpion]

Never question the Refs when playing the Stealers.
You will be labeled as whiners.

I've watched appx 12 Stealers games in the past 3 years, and it seems in every game the Refs consistently make calls/spots favoring the Stealers.

New ASFN member. Welcome.