The End of the Rice Game

This is my understanding of what happened…

The clock is supposed to stop to set chains. However once they are set, the clock rolls. The refs were trying to figure out if time was left after the receiver came down, which it was, then Dana goes and calls a timeout.

The refs would have signaled for the clock to start if Dana hadn’t done that, and Rice would have had to be sure to execute the snap in that one second.

And if Dana hadn’t allowed a delay of game and simply has the kicker run around for one extra second it wouldn’t have been a nail biter.

Our coaches don’t blow.

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