I was watching the end of the Lions game again.
Think the Lions kinda botched the end after the Elliott catch.
They had two timeouts with 37 seconds left and took both of them. That allowed us to take an extra two plays without using any of our timeouts. Those two plays amounted to 5 yards.
But there was no hope, unless we passed the ball twice and it was incomplete both times, that the Lions could have stopped us from running the clock down to 1 second left and then we use our own timeout.
Given that, the Lions should have forced us to use our own timeouts and they would have saved a play or two.... two plays that saw us get 5 yards. We kicked with an untested kicker from 5 yards closer in because they took those timeouts.
Seems like a minor, but potentially game changing, clock bungle.