Patler
01-10-2011, 11:06 AM
Some one mentioned this yesterday, and I was surprised by it too:
The Eagles last kickoff came with 4:02 on the clock. Woodson caught the ball on the left hashmark, slipped to his knee, got up and ran across the field to the 22 near the right sideline. The clock read 4:00 when the ref stopped it after the tackle.
That means Woodson caught the ball, slipped, got up, ran about 24 yards, was tackled and the ref stopped the clock all in about 2 seconds.
These times are taken from the NFL gamebook, and are consistent with the TV clock, which was at 4:02 before the kick, and did not tick down to 4:01 until just as Woodson was being tackled.
I know there can be almost a second of "slippage" in a clock between 4:02 and 4:00, because anything less than 4:03 shows as 4:02 and anything equal to or more than 4:01 shows as 4:01, but even 3 full seconds would be awful short for what happened in that play.
The Eagles last kickoff came with 4:02 on the clock. Woodson caught the ball on the left hashmark, slipped to his knee, got up and ran across the field to the 22 near the right sideline. The clock read 4:00 when the ref stopped it after the tackle.
That means Woodson caught the ball, slipped, got up, ran about 24 yards, was tackled and the ref stopped the clock all in about 2 seconds.
These times are taken from the NFL gamebook, and are consistent with the TV clock, which was at 4:02 before the kick, and did not tick down to 4:01 until just as Woodson was being tackled.
I know there can be almost a second of "slippage" in a clock between 4:02 and 4:00, because anything less than 4:03 shows as 4:02 and anything equal to or more than 4:01 shows as 4:01, but even 3 full seconds would be awful short for what happened in that play.