ckparrothead
Premium Member
I've re-watched it a few times, and you're right, they tried to run the FG team onto the field, and Yates hesitates for a second and puts his arms up, I think he thought the game was over there. However, he did gather his head and realize he needed to just take penalty and spike the ball, and did just in the nick of time.
It's definitely on the coaches for not handling the clock better. I'd have liked to have seen the QB know he had to spike it no matter what, and just take it over from the beginning, but when I re-watched it, he pretty much did. He held his senses pretty quick, rather than losing them entirely.
That was just what I was going to say. If you watch from the very beginning as in right as the runner got tackled, you look at Yates, he's driving the cattle up the field and motioning with his arms downward which means "get lined up for a clock play"...but then he just briefly glances over the sidelines (maybe he saw some of the FG unit players out the side of his peripheral vision?) and sees what the coaches intended...and there's no question, you can see the exact thought process going through his head via his face and body language. He goes from "What the ****?!?" to "Offense, get off the field!" to "Wait, that's not going to work!" to "Field goal unit, get the F-CK off the field!" to "Ah sh-t! We just lost the f-cking game because of this horse ****!" to "Wait, I can still clock it and draw the penalty!"
All in the span of about 4 seconds.