Originally Posted by
eschatological
I admitted as much in the original post it didn't make much sense to me why they ran off the clock. I know they went on-air to correct it later, but here's my issue: They were going to run the play at :26........if they reviewed, overturned, and ran the 10s off from the previous clock of like, :42, they essentially give 6s back to the Saints, who will have gotten their correct personnel in, called a play, and be ready to snap immediately. Which is what the commentary booth suggested should have been the correction?
Either way, it would be dumb. As I understand it from the clarification they did later, they should have just set it back to :26.
And yes, you should be over blown calls in the NFC Championship game by now. But moreover, your coach shouldn't have pushed one of the shittiest replay rules on the whole league because of a hissy fit. The new rule is so subjective it's now at the point that even when there IS no flag, you have to worry some coach is going to challenge that there SHOULD be a flag. And if you can judge that there SHOULD be a flag for PI, why not other penalties?
Example: Yesterday, the Jets were inside the Bills 5. They called a run play. It was clearly a run play. One of our defenders blew up the backfield pretty instantly, so Darnold didn't hand it off. Instead, he scrambled and threw a short pass for a TD. Problem was, every single lineman was down the field, run blocking, but no "ineligible man downfield" call was flagged. Bills were rightly pissed, but they couldn't challenge the no-call of ineligible man downfield. So then, because it's a scoring play, the play is reviewed anyways. And the whole line being downfield couldn't be flagged on the replay even though it was clear as day, but luckily, they *could* call OPI on the TE setting the edge more than 1 yard downfield.......yes, that's right, the TE was called for offensive pass interference......for run blocking a guy further than 1 yard past the LOS. If he hadn't.....well, that TD would have counted.
It's a fucking dumb rule, and shouldn't be in the game, and is solely in the game because of the whining of New Orleans. And that's a call that benefited the Bills.