Zap 10 on injury...

[younggun]

1. A2&G B6. Team A trails 12-8 in the fourth quarter when QB A11, from the B7, hands the ball to running back A22 at the B8. He runs to the B4 where he is tackled. A22 is injured on the play and the Umpire stops the game clock before attendants enter the field to treat A22. When the official’s time out is taken 00:05 shows on the game clock and Team A has no time outs remaining.


This is the reason I hate this rule, just wait until #1 Alabama is playing #4 LSU this year and this is how the game ends. Mean while the injured player breaks his leg and it is obvious he was not faking. I just dont like it. If anything we need to go to the NFL 'fourth timeout' rule.... bascily the team gets one freebee before the ZAP 10 is in play. That is just my $.02....

[Hawkeye]

If there are 5 seconds left when A22 is down, how likely is it that team A would get another snap off if A22 was not injured and the clock was not stopped?

[younggun]

If there are 5 seconds left when A22 is down, how likely is it that team A would get another snap off if A22 was not injured and the clock was not stopped?

ok... lets say there are 9 seconds left. They can always spike the ball too. My point is I see this rule getting overturned once there is a game decided because of an injury that turns out to be a real major injury.

[Rulesman]

ok... lets say there are 9 seconds left. They can always spike the ball too...

How do you justify that reasoning if it's 4th down?

[younggun]

How do you justify that reasoning if it's 4th down?

You cant.... but lets just say it isnt 4th down.... dont take the play situation I posted at 100% truth... there are many different options that can happen. What was just one I found on the CFO West 2013 preseason test.

[Osric Pureheart]

My point is I see this rule getting overturned once there is a game decided because of an injury that turns out to be a real major injury.

I've got a question.  Has there ever been an NFL game where this has happened?  Only you'd think that if it did, everyone would be running around screeching maniacally about how unfair it was, and I can't remember it ever actually happening.

[younggun]

The NFL has a '4th timeout rule' to get out of this happening, and besides the ZAP is not an NFL rule, NFL just hits you with yardage.


NFL RULE BOOK

INJURY TIMEOUTS AFTER TWO-MINUTE WARNING OF EITHER HALF
Article 4 After the two-minute warning of a half, the following shall apply:
(a) If a team has not used its three charged team timeouts, the team of the injured player will be charged a team timeout,
unless:
(i) the injury is the result of a foul by an opponent;
(ii) the injury occurs during a down in which there is a change of possession, a successful field goal, or an attempted Try; or
(iii) theopponentcallsatimeout.
(b) If a team has used its three charged team timeouts, an excess team timeout shall be called by the Referee, unless:
(i) the injury is the result of a foul by an opponent;
(ii) the injury occurs during a down in which there is a change of possession, a successful field goal, or an attempted Try; or
(iii) theopponentcallsatimeout.
Penalty: For the second and each subsequent excess team timeout after the two-minute warning: Loss of five yards from the succeeding spot for delay of the game.