Eagles

Andy Reid Doesn’t Want to Get Fined

By Kyle Scott

Published: Oct 4th, 2010 · 12:26 PM EDT

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He has a serious problem with the way the referees handled the timeout situation, but he won't say it.

When asked about why the Eagles took a delay of game penalty at the end of the first half yesterday, Reid said:

I would love to tell you everything, but I'm not going to do that.  That would be an expensive answer.  Everything is my fault and I'm gonna go with that.

 

Well that's nothing new.

He's upset that the play clock started as quickly as it did, but doesn't want to get fined. Here's how FOX's Mike Pereira, who tells us nothing on TV, describes the NFL's timeout rule:

This was a 30-second timeout because television did not take a commercial break. Anytime TV does take a break, the timeouts are two minutes long. In a 30-second timeout, the officials signal for the players to come back on the field 20 seconds into the timeout.

Under normal circumstances, the players get 10 seconds to return to the field and then the referee signals the ball ready for play. In this case, the referee probably could have used some common sense and delayed his ready-for-play signal, especially since he went to the sideline to speak to coach Andy Reid after granting the Eagles' request for a timeout.

 

My very un-scientific time keeping showed that the Eagles were given a full 30 seconds for the timeout, plus another 40 for the play clock.  No more, no less.

As we said before, this would be understandable if something like it didn't happen every game with Reid.