re: Slow down! Refs want to hit pause on up-tempo play

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Should have never went to the 40 second clock. It was stupid to begin with. Should have just kept it at 25 seconds and started the clock when the ball was marked ready for play.

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40 second clock works fine in the nfl. the mistake was adopting it without adopting the rest of the procedures they developed to handle the implications of the rule change