What were they thinking? What. Were. They. Thinking? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! BuckinBoston on That Play:
What Mac Jones could have done is take a knee. Settle it in overtime. Instead, there ensued this clown car of a play so mad, so crazy, that when the game was over, reporters were asking Pats people, just to make sure, if they were all in the know that the game was tied, that the Pats were not trailing. Under those circumstances, the play call would have raised no eyebrows at all, the Pats doing something desperate to get back into the game.
If we may stoop to cliche, that’s the play you call when you’re trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In calling the play, they ignored another cliche, popularized by the late John Madden: Take a knee.Even Raiders coach Josh McDaniels, the former longtime Belichick assistant, seemed stunned by what he had just seen.“But when I saw the ball in the air and I saw Chandler underneath it, I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, we might have a chance at this.
“I gotta tackle the guy,” he said. “It’s on me and it’s my fault … so I tackle him, and then we play for overtime. So it’s on me. We gotta make that. Not good enough by me.” That’s rubbish, of course. Disgruntled Pats fans can criticize Jones for his quarterbacking, and they can certainly criticize him for the pouting and whining he did for much of the first half. But to expect Jones to haul down Jones, a 6-5, 265-pound defensive end, is silly.
Most of us can agree that Rhamondre Stevenson probably shouldn’t have lateraled the ball to Jakobi Meyers.But why are we even having this discussion? Why the play was even called is the real question.Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a senior writer for The Athletic covering Boston sports.
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