Hit those Tums once more...

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Actually, they probably DO have a buzzer to let them know when the play-clock expires.  HS referees have them... I don't know why the NFL wouldn't.

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seems like they need decimal places in the timer to clear the confusion. 

When the playclock starts and shows 40, it doesn't secretly mean the timer starts and runs down from 41. With each tick, the playclock is chewing through the decimal places of the number below it. 

If we're talking music, it's 40 AND 39 AND 38 AND 37 AND... 0. It doesn't start offbeat like AND 40, AND 39, AND 38... .... AND 0. AND... oops, delay of game. But that's how some refs seem to think it goes... they act like there is a 0.9 and counting attached to a displayed 0 and there isn't.

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It's just a different set of rules at Lamblow.

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Me and my wife were both screaming at the TV when the play clock hit 0. Then it happened again........ and again.

I got so frustrated watching that game, then to fight our way all of the way back, uphill against the Packers and the refs and all of our self-inflicted mistakes........Then that interception. Frustrating as hell.

As soon as the pitch-back play failed, I switched the TVs to the computer and watched Bill Burr's new stand-up on Netflix. Didn't turn the regular TV back on for the rest of the night. Listened to some music and fired up the grill. Made the most of it until I first awoke in the morning and, of course, that game is immediately the first thing that comes to mind. 

I hate to admit this, because I dislike the guy, but watching Aaron Rodgers sling that ball anywhere he wants, on target, all game makes Cousins look even more inept than he probably is. Rodgers looks like he's throwing a baseball and Cousins looks like he's throwing a bowling ball.

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@SouthCarolinaViking said:


I hate to admit this, because I dislike the guy, but watching Aaron Rodgers sling that ball anywhere he wants, on target, all game makes Cousins look even more inept than he probably is. Rodgers looks like he's throwing a baseball and Cousins looks like he's throwing a bowling ball.

There's something to be said for arm strength. It certainly isn't the end all and be all, but when it comes with a very good QB in all the other ways, its what makes a guy elite. Rodgers slings the rock with ease and velocity. You have exceptions like Drew Brees and Tom Brady, but they are generational guys.