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Football Officiating => National Football League => Topic started by: chymechowder on October 26, 2010, 01:19:20 PM
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The NFL has a rule (started this year or last) that Team B can't call back to back timeouts to ice the kicker, right?
Does that only apply to kicking situations? Play:
Team A lines up for a FG. Just before snap, Team B coach calls timeout.
Timeout is over. Ball is ready for play.
Team A now runs their regular offense onto the field.
Team B can call timeout here, right?
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Rule 4 Section 5 Article 1
Item 3: Consecutive Team Timeouts. Each team may be granted a charged team timeout during the same dead-ball period, but a second charged team timeout by either team during the same dead-ball period is prohibited. Such team timeouts may follow a Referee's timeout or any automatic timeouts in Section 4 above.
The rule does not apply to just kicking situations. There is an unsportsmanlike penalty if this is tried though to "ice the kicker."
Item 4: Unsportsmanlike Conduct. An attempt to call an excess team timeout or to call a second timeout in the same dead-ball period by Team B in an attempt to "freeze" a kicker, will be considered unsportsmanlike conduct and will subject the offending team to a 15-yard penalty (See 12-3). This will apply to field goals or Try attempts.
Note: If an attempt is made to call a timeout in such a situation, the officials shall not grant a timeout; instead, play will continue, and a penalty will be called, with customary enforcement. If a timeout is inadvertently granted, the penalty shall also be enforced. See 12-3-1-v.
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It's not new either. Joe Gibbs got penalized for it while coaching, and he's been out for a while.
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It's not new either. Joe Gibbs got penalized for it while coaching, and he's been out for a while.
I'm pretty sure it was in his last year of coaching. I want to say 2007?