stickman

— Makes actions to conserve time illegal after the two-minute warning of either half.

I need some clarification on this one. Does spiking the ball count as conserving time? What about going out of bounds?

SaintFanInATLHELL

Neither do. The two new rules are designed to address the intentional fouling to run out the clock illegal. Two examples:

1. Chip Kelly called for his defense to hold all the Saints receivers with 8 seconds left.

2. Jim Harbaugh called for his entire team to hold everyone rushing the punter at the end of a game against Cinncinati.

The question is does either allow the ref to put time back on the clock thereby negating the effect while giving the fouled party yardage to work with?

SFIAH