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The Lions won in overtime in Minnesota on Sunday after a crazy finish that saw them spike the ball to stop the clock and set up their game-tying field goal with two seconds left in the fourth quarter. And Lions coach Jim Caldwell fought for those two seconds, moments earlier.

According to Peter King of TheMMQB.com, when the Lions called a timeout on defense late in the fourth quarter, Caldwell lobbied the officials to put two extra seconds on the clock. And they agreed.

Here’s what happened: The Vikings picked up a first down deep in Lions territory on a pass to Stefon Diggs. When Diggs was tackled, there was 1:14 on the clock. The Lions immediately called timeout, but it always takes a couple seconds for the timeout call to go from the team to the officials to the game clock operator, and so when the clock stopped it read 1:11. That’s when Caldwell asked for more time, and got it.

Although FOX changed the on-screen clock from 1:11 to 1:13, there was no mention of it on the broadcast. If you re-watch it and listen very closely, however, you can hear referee Ed Hochuli saying, “Please reset the game clock to 1:13.”

Without those two extra seconds, the Lions wouldn’t have kicked their game-tying field goal and won the game in overtime. That’s not to say those two extra seconds were decisive — plenty of other factors contributed to the Lions’ comeback, including the Vikings’ odd decision to call a timeout of their own with 27 seconds left in the fourth quarter, at a time when they should have let more time run off the clock.

Every second counts, and the Lions made better use of the final seconds of the fourth quarter than the Vikings did.