Help Me Out With Something About Last Week's Game

[Faithful Falcon]

I was at work, so I only saw bits and pieces of the game. I saw when we stopped Carolina on 4th down with a minute and 40 something left. I went back to work thinking that we just needed to go into victory formation. My assumption was that we would win 17-13. WTH happen afterwards?

[BCEagleATLFalcon]

There was *just* enough time left (and one Carolina timeout) that victory formation wouldn't get the clock down to 0.

Carolina took their final timeout after one run and then the refs basically handed them two more timeouts with bogus penalties on us that stopped the clock.

Quinn went with a 54 yard FG to widen the lead to a TD, the longest FG of Graham's career, which looks brilliant in retrospect but only because he made it. At the time, I was blowing a fuse at home - "What the **** are we doing?"

Luckily Beasley came up with a strip of Cam on second play of next Panthers possession (because the first play was a long completion) and Clayborn recovered.

Game over. Finally.

[JOEinPHX]

Quinn went with a 54 yard FG to widen the lead to a TD, the longest FG of Graham's career, which looks brilliant in retrospect but only because he made it. At the time, I was blowing a fuse at home - "What the **** are we doing?"

That had disaster written all over it. I was malfunctioning myself.

[Faithful Falcon]

There was *just* enough time left (and one Carolina timeout) that victory formation wouldn't get the clock down to 0.

Carolina took their final timeout after one run and then the refs basically handed them two more timeouts with bogus penalties on us that stopped the clock.

Quinn went with a 54 yard FG to widen the lead to a TD, the longest FG of Graham's career, which looks brilliant in retrospect but only because he made it. At the time, I was blowing a fuse at home - "What the **** are we doing?"

Luckily Beasley came up with a strip of Cam on second play of next Panthers possession (because the first play was a long completion) and Clayborn recovered.

Game over.

Thanks, but I still don't get how that victory formation wouldn't have ran the clock all the way down. To say the least, we would have had only a few seconds left, and Carolina wouldn't have any timeouts. The sad part about it is that we only ran about 10 seconds off the clock.

[B_Lo_Touchdowns]

Bad coaching decisions.

[BCEagleATLFalcon]

Thanks, but I still don't get how that victory formation wouldn't have ran the clock all the way down. To say the least, we would have had only a few seconds left, and Carolina wouldn't have any timeouts. The sad part about it is that we only ran about 10 seconds off the clock.

Hey, I agree with you. Clock wouldn't have quite been at 0, but I expected a few kneels and then a punt with only a few seconds remaining.

[Da Bird is Da Word]

Thanks, but I still don't get how that victory formation wouldn't have ran the clock all the way down. To say the least, we would have had only a few seconds left, and Carolina wouldn't have any timeouts. The sad part about it is that we only ran about 10 seconds off the clock.

The refs gave the Falcons 3 back to back penalties to stop the clock so Carolina would have a fighting chance. The calls were total B.S.

[Mr. Lubba Lubba©]

There was *just* enough time left (and one Carolina timeout) that victory formation wouldn't get the clock down to 0.

Carolina took their final timeout after one run and then the refs basically handed them two more timeouts with bogus penalties on us that stopped the clock.

Quinn went with a 54 yard FG to widen the lead to a TD, the longest FG of Graham's career, which looks brilliant in retrospect but only because he made it. At the time, I was blowing a fuse at home - "What the **** are we doing?"

Luckily Beasley came up with a strip of Cam on second play of next Panthers possession (because the first play was a long completion) and Clayborn recovered.

Game over. Finally.

I agree with another poster that said if we wouldn't have stripped Cam there, there was going to be a very long pass interference called on us within the next play or two to hand them a chance at tying the game.

[Faithful Falcon]

The refs gave the Falcons 3 back to back penalties to stop the clock so Carolina would have a fighting chance. The calls were total B.S.

That's cools and all, but you can still kneel down. The only penalties that we should have had were false starts. Not even those to be exact. That was just terrible coaching.