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Question for anyone who knows what I'm talking about here:
-why was there a 9 second run off of the play clock at the end of the 3rd quarter? It was when the Seahawks were in the redzone mid-drive, and there were 9 seconds left and the clock was stopped so there should have been one more play at the end of the quarter, but instead they clock started again and ran down without a play. Then they handed out awards in the end zone before resuming play. Why did they do that?
-also, when there was 12:55 left in the 4th or 3rd quarter, can't remember which. The falcons ran the ball out of bounds. so the play clock stopped. It was stopped for about 10 seconds, but then randomly resumed running at the beginning of the play clock, causing 30 seconds to run off the clock before the snap of the next play. Was this an error?
Are time clock errors like this common? I was kind of blown away that nothing was mentioned by the announcers or anything.
up until this year the seahawks weren't even so much as mentioned on national coverage or commentary. In contrast it did seem like a lot of hype but there's a lot of teams that get that amount of hype all the time. It was probably surrounding Russell Wilson because he really came out of nowhere- at the beginning of the year he wouldn't have even been in the conversation for rookie of the year and now he's expected to be second to only rgiii.
Got my answer to this one.
Didn't realize the rule was this:
The clock stops when a player goes out of bounds only in the last 2 minutes of the first half and the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter. At all other times the clock stops but it starts again when the ref spots the ball, not when the ball is snapped.
Not sure when this rule was changed.
The problem is that the votes are taken at the end of the regular season.
In an article titled "Russell Wilson is the ROY" this is how they feel as well, stating:
When the Associated Press finally pulls the sheet off the 2012 awards in 19 days, Wilson likely won’t be named the rookie of the year. Sunday’s game bolsters the argument that the votes shouldn’t be taken right after the regular season ends. Though delaying the process until the completion of the Super Bowl likely would skew the results of multiple awards toward members of the freshly-crowned NFL champion, maybe the voting should be postponed until after the conference title games or, at a minimum, until after the divisional round.
Regardless, if the votes were being cast today, Wilson would be the clear winner. And whoever wins the actual award will know it.
and my point was that you can say he's the man regardless of losing, because he is really good.
