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And the Niners contributed all they could by calling three timeouts that stopped the clock in the second half, two to avoid delay of game penalties and one when Aldon Smith couldn't get off the field when injured inside of 2 minutes.

All told the Niners gave the Chargers an extra 1:20 of time.

I didn't watch the game, but if two timeouts were to avoid delay of game penalties, doesn't that mean those game SD almost no time? You don't call those unless there's <2 seconds left on the clock, so those ones give ~4s max. The other one might have saved them some time, but, again, depending on the circumstances it's probably not more than 30s. Do you want to give the other team any time? Obviously not, but from your description that doesn't actually sound like a real error.

[stupac2]

And the Niners contributed all they could by calling three timeouts that stopped the clock in the second half, two to avoid delay of game penalties and one when Aldon Smith couldn't get off the field when injured inside of 2 minutes.

All told the Niners gave the Chargers an extra 1:20 of time.

I didn't watch the game, but if two timeouts were to avoid delay of game penalties, doesn't that mean those game SD almost no time? You don't call those unless there's <2 seconds left on the clock, so those ones give ~4s max. The other one might have saved them some time, but, again, depending on the circumstances it's probably not more than 30s. Do you want to give the other team any time? Obviously not, but from your description that doesn't actually sound like a real error.