Just be glad that we won and look to the future.

 

I thought that 17 seconds would never end.

 

I didn't know there was a caveat to the rule making it OK for the refs to ignore it. Hell yes I think they were being generous to the Jests/Favre. Every lateral I expected someone to slip and allow the runner to break free, seems like they ran around for an hour before it ended.

 

And I think Sparano felt the same way by the way he was screaming at the refs.

God I love that man.

 

What I thought was interesting was that there was no ten second run off when there was 0:7 on the clock. I thought there was suppose to be?

 

Meh, I don't think there was a chance of them scoring, karma would never allow it.

 

Yeah, that kind of blew my mind a bit.

I was also upset that no one double checked that 2 point conversion. Could have sworn that was a drop. I was doubly PO'd when CBS didn't even bother with a replay.

 

I will tell you what I believe, that call was to give Brett and company one last try. For years now Brett team has been given favortism by refs and phantom penalties on other teams giving Brett that one last chance. This is also the trend with Tom Brady too.
Yes 10 seconds should have been run off, and why in the world was the punt ever reviewed, it gave the Jets time to devise a play, thats all it did.

 

I think the refs were so afraid to be wrong that they did nothing (and thus were wrong) thats how it works.

 

You might be right actually. Big game, at the end of the season, and they didn't want to blow a whistle to end it on their own accord. Maybe lol. But there is favoritism in this league. Can't argue that. League favors its stars...

 

The problem I have is that the ref said "the player was not attempting to stop the clock," which is a complete judgment call on the ref's part.

It's not the referee's job to read a player's mind, and there should have been a 10 second runoff.


But the game is over and we won, so we can forget all about that and celebrate for the night! We face a tough opponent next week.

 

I actually didn't mind the fact that they didn't run the 10 secs. Why?

I was hoping that Favre would find himself receiving another lateral. This time I was imagining Porter knocking him.

:evil:

 

I do not like the 10 second run off rule for much of anything. I understand the importance of a running 10 off for injury but to do what Favre did was placing the ball in jeopardy of a turnover. That is cause enough for a team not to partake in such an endeavor.

The penalty was good enough for me.

 

There was another player there who missed the ball. Favre was trying to get it to him, he was NOT trying to kill the clock but rather keep the play alive and adavance it down field.

Correct call.

 

With you 100% on this - I was watching the TV with the x-files theme going round my head and thinking the league was going to set up Favre for a 99 yard score! damn longest 17 seconds of my life!

 

Well, it didn't look to me like he was trying to get it out of bounds, just forward to whoever was up ahead of him.

You also have to take into account the Ty Law holding call that negated the INT, and the no call of the slight push off on the Ginn TD.

So, I can see calls like that going both ways.