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Originally Posted by O.city
If you run it 3 times and run a full play clock with no first down, how much time can you burn off?
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Let's assume they are very short runs, so we'll go with a 5 second play. The refs usually take about 5 seconds to set the play clock, so that's 10. If the Chiefs snapped the ball at 2-3 seconds, that would burn 22-23 seconds more. So 33 seconds each play x 3 plays = 99 seconds. Another 33 would be burned for the punt, then figure 10 seconds for the punt. So 142 seconds = 2 minutes and 22 seconds. Not much time burned off the clock.
But all they'd have to do is pick up one first down and you'd almost double that time. Once they went up 28, they should have been running it into the pile over and over. Of course, then CP would have had a meltdown saying Smith and Reid don't have that "killer instinct."