Clock mistake in SD last night

[Bad Morty]

The NFL admits that 18 seconds were erroneously run off the clock prior to the Steelers game winning drive last night. Thank god this didn't happen in Gillette...it would be a national news story!!

 

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-10-13/steelers-vs-chargers-18-seconds-final-drive-nfl-investigating-mistake

 

Seriously - the league really dodged a bullet here, had the Steelers run out of time and lost.

[SteelCityColt]

The NFL admits that 18 seconds were erroneously run off the clock prior to the Steelers game winning drive last night. Thank god this didn't happen in Gillette...it would be a national news story!!

 

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-10-13/steelers-vs-chargers-18-seconds-final-drive-nfl-investigating-mistake

 

Seriously - the league really dodged a bullet here, had the Steelers run out of time and lost.

 

This also happened I'm fairly sure in the Texans/Colts game... twice, well in the reverse with clock stopping when it shouldn't. It's certainly come up in a GDay topic recently. 

 

Amazing how this can even happen, surely they have a guy who's only job is to literally watch the clock. 

[Bad Morty]

This also happened I'm fairly sure in the Texans/Colts game... twice, well in the reverse with clock stopping when it shouldn't. It's certainly come up in a GDay topic recently. 

 

Amazing how this can even happen, surely they have a guy who's only job is to literally watch the clock. 

 

Mike Tomlin has not impressed me much this year. I thought the Steeler's 2 minute offense in both halves vs the Pats was bad to the point of embarrassing. Then he has the questionable 4th down calls that led to them blowing the Ravens game...now he doesn't notice that they stole 18 seconds from him on the last drive of the game with his team trailing? I realize that Bill Belichick worship can get over the top, but it's truly unfathomable to me that he wouldn't have immediately noticed this error.

[SteelCityColt]

Mike Tomlin has not impressed me much this year. I thought the Steeler's 2 minute offense in both halves vs the Pats was bad to the point of embarrassing. Then he has the questionable 4th down calls that led to them blowing the Ravens game...now he doesn't notice that they stole 18 seconds from him on the last drive of the game with his team trailing? I realize that Bill Belichick worship can get over the top, but it's truly unfathomable to me that he wouldn't have immediately noticed this error.

 

Some HCs are notoriously bad with the clock/time situational football. 

 

The rest of the AFC are lucky Big Ben is out. I really think they would have lit it up this year. 

[Bad Morty]

Some HCs are notoriously bad with the clock/time situational football. 

 

The rest of the AFC are lucky Big Ben is out. I really think they would have lit it up this year. 

 Given the overall weakness of the AFC this year, they definitely would have been in the mix. They're by no means out of it yet though.

[Coffeedrinker]

This also happened I'm fairly sure in the Texans/Colts game... twice, well in the reverse with clock stopping when it shouldn't. It's certainly come up in a GDay topic recently. 

 

Amazing how this can even happen, surely they have a guy who's only job is to literally watch the clock. 

In the Colts game it was just the TV time that was incorrect.  I noticed that too, they kept running the clock when after the player ran out of bounds and the ref signaled for the clock to stop.  But then by the time they got up to the line it had been corrected.

[SteelCityColt]

In the Colts game it was just the TV time that was incorrect.  I noticed that too, they kept running the clock when after the player ran out of bounds and the ref signaled for the clock to stop.  But then by the time they got up to the line it had been corrected.

 

Thank you!

[Bad Morty]

In the Colts game it was just the TV time that was incorrect.  I noticed that too, they kept running the clock when after the player ran out of bounds and the ref signaled for the clock to stop.  But then by the time they got up to the line it had been corrected.

 

I believe the NFL has actually admitted that it was the game clock that was run off erroneously. The Steelers should have had 18 more seconds on the clock when they started their final drive.

[Coffeedrinker]

I believe the NFL has actually admitted that it was the game clock that was run off erroneously. The Steelers should have had 18 more seconds on the clock when they started their final drive.

I was talking about the Colts game.  That is why I responded to SteelCityColt who was talking about a similar thing happening in the Colts game and why I started my sentence with, "In the Colts game..."

 

I figured that would alleviate any confusion but I must admit, I did not consider the Pats fan factor (Average Colts fan IQ plus Tom Brady's age all of that divided by 2)

[Bad Morty]

I was talking about the Colts game.  That is why I responded to SteelCityColt who was talking about a similar thing happening in the Colts game and why I started my sentence with, "In the Colts game..."

 

I figured that would alleviate any confusion but I must admit, I did not consider the Pats fan factor (Average Colts fan IQ plus Tom Brady's age all of that divided by 2)

 

um...ok? Sorry - was just trying to engage in a discussion. I must have misunderstood your post.

[SteelCityColt]

I honestly didn't realise that during the regular season the time is in the hands of the home scoreboard operator not and official. Yet in the play offs they have an official do it. 

[ColtsSouljah]

The NFL admits that 18 seconds were erroneously run off the clock prior to the Steelers game winning drive last night. Thank god this didn't happen in Gillette...it would be a national news story!!

 

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-10-13/steelers-vs-chargers-18-seconds-final-drive-nfl-investigating-mistake

 

Seriously - the league really dodged a bullet here, had the Steelers run out of time and lost.

 

Several problems with your comment here. 1. IT IS a national news story. It's all over. Just as an example, national sports talk radio spent hours on this just yesterday. 2. The person who erred has been suspended, which is more than can be said for incidents involving "Gillette."

[ReMeDy]

The official in question has been suspended:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000557818/article/official-suspended-after-steelerschargers-clock-error

 

Furthermore, the status of the other officials are in doubt, since none of them apparently caught it.