Re: [NFL] Colts-NE, Defensive Delay of Game?

"Joe Toth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Billones) wrote in message
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> > Near the end of the Colts/Pats game, with the Patriots out of time outs,
> > one of their players was "injured" on the field.  The clock, and play,
> > was stopped for the injury as the Colts went hopping mad.  After
> > leaving the field for one play, the "injured" player returned for the
> > key goal line stand, making the final tackle.
> >
> > I had though that, in the NFL, if a player was injured in the final 2
> > minutes his team was charged a time out, or penalized for Delay of Game
> > if no time outs remained.  However, this did not occur.  Was I mistaken,
> > or is Tags gonna have to send another letter?
>
> There is no 'penalty' if the injury would be the 4th 'time out'.
> any further injury 'time outs' for a team would result in a penalty
> if the running clock was stopped for the injury time out.
>
> Did the officials run off the 10 seconds???  That may be why the
> Colts would be ticked, but since the clock was (in theory) stopped
> early due to the injury time out, like it or not, the runnoff is
> supposed to be mandatory. If the clock was stopped for some other
> reason, the 10 second runoff is not necessary

There can NEVER be a 10-second runoff against the defense.
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--  Scott