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Originally Posted by transplant99
Strange ruling there at the end...replay official buzzes the game dead to look at something...they get it right...then it costs the Saints 10 seconds?
Terrible rule.
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It makes sense though as the Saints player was down in bounds so the clock would have kept running. The Saints had the option to use their time out to save the 10 seconds. If the Saints didn't have a timeout it would have been essentially a bonus timeout for them which is why they do the 10 second run off to prevent offensive teams gaining an advantage from a replay review regardless of the outcome of the review. This issue never comes into effect in the CFL because in the last 3 minutes of halves they stop the clock between every play and whistle it in.