# Steelers' / Jets playoff

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 23, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-jets-playoff/568699 "2011-01-23T21:44:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-jets-playoff/568699/81 "2011-01-24T16:46:22Z")

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Ben took three kneels.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-jets-playoff/568699/82 "2011-01-24T17:21:07Z")

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I know. How much time did each kneel eat up? Was the [espn.com](http://espn.com) thing just not updating? All I saw was, “4th-and-16, B. Roethlisgberger kneels 1:00”, and the next thing it said was replacing the 1:00 with “Final.” Was the first kneel at 1:00, and then each one ate 20+ seconds?

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-jets-playoff/568699/83 "2011-01-25T00:15:47Z")

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> [@mhendo](#):
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> How the fuck do the officials call for a measurement there? The previous play went nowhere, and they were clearly a good yard short of the first-down marker. All they did was hand the Steelers a free timeout to discuss their 4th-down strategy.
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> Edit:
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> Well, poetic justice, i guess. INT.

I know that this is very old news at this point, but I’m just perplexed by your interpretation of this play. You must have been very confused as to why the Steelers rushed to the line without huddling up if you thought that they were trying to discuss 4th down strategy. Ben’s expression of frustration and dismissive hand gesture at the refs stopping the clock must have also been quite confusing to you.

It’s actually quite common for teams to rush up to the line to try to get a play off before the defense can get set. Sometimes they do that just to fake a play and get the defense to jump. However, unless the clock is running down at the end of the game and the team is trying to come from behind, it’s not really to the offense’s advantage to have the ref stop the clock.

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