Tough to nail down, but multiple sources say:
Some have added Sammy Baugh stats to it, but he didn’t start playing in the NFL until 1937, so I don’t know the veracity of the record.
But not finding it on any official NFL site.
Quirky Research says the Tennessee Oilers against the Cowboys in 1997 had a drive of 13:27 for the longestsince 1984.
But no official stat that I can find…
Excuse me? I have never heard of this one. The reasons a QB doesn’t “jog backwards to kill the clock” at the end of a game are, (a) it counts against his statistics, and, more importantly, (b) there is a real risk of a fumble. I realize “Miracle at the Meadowlands” was an actual play, and not just somebody running backwards, but the principle is the same. Or are you saying that, if a team has the ball, fourth down on its own 10-yard line, and the punter standing on his own 1 turns around and runs out of the end zone, the officials are going to say, “The punter stopped advancing the ball at the 1-yard line, so the play ended there, and the other team gets the ball, first and goal”?
I have seen players run across the field before scoring a touchdown in order to run time off the clock. Wouldn’t that be “no longer attempting to advance the ball” as well?
The defense can’t prolong the play by holding the ball carrier up. The ref will blow the play dead at that point. But the offense can continue to run around as long as they are able. You see it most often when they purposely take a safety to avoid punting from the endzone. The punter will run around as long as possible.
I don’t think this is true.
…a runner declares himself down by:
(1) falling to the ground, or kneeling, and clearly making no immediate effort to advance
(2) sliding feet-first on the ground. When a runner slides feet first, the ball is dead the instant he touches the ground with
anything other than his hands or his feet
http://uaasnfl.blob.core.windows.net/live/1807/2015_nfl_rule_book_final.pdf
The 49ers’ Special Teams coach said when a penalty results in a re-do punt or kick, they will use a new returner (or new gunners, as the case may be). That’s why they pulled Hayne at first. But after that, the decision was made to leave Bruce Ellington as the return man both because of the lack of running backs (just Hyde and Hayne), Ellington has plenty of return skills, himself (the “hot hand”).