I think the reason is came out was b/c it looked as if he caught the ball in the playing field with one foot in and one foot out and his momentum pushed him in the end zone. He probably thought if he took a knee, it would be a safety. You can tell he froze for a minute thinking "Oh no ... what should I do".
Crunch man, you are better than this. The coach shares blame in not properly instructing him on what to do. If the only reason he ran it out was that he thought he was outside the endzone when catching the kickoff, then he takes the blame for not using any sort of intelligence, and simply running out to the 20 and falling down, which is what the touchback would have done for him.
I don't remember how much was on the clock maybe 2:06 left, but I am quite certain the last thing in his mind was "I need to run for 6 seconds to get past the 2 minute warning"...
That was a horrible play by the Kick returner.
All he had to do was fall to the ground. Once contact occured he was fighting for yards and that's when they held him up and stripped the ball.
Which is a very common practice for any type of d-fence.
No way in Hell should the pats have won that game.
Really the last 3 NFL games where the dogs should of covered the ML they did not.
Bears, Bills, Raiders
I was on the ML for the Bears but after that $hit I did not play the ML on the other two games. Took the points.
All he had to do was fall to the ground. Once contact occured he was fighting for yards and that's when they held him up and stripped the ball.
Which is a very common practice for any type of d-fence.
No way in Hell should the pats have won that game.
Really the last 3 NFL games where the dogs should of covered the ML they did not.
Bears, Bills, Raiders
I was on the ML for the Bears but after that $hit I did not play the ML on the other two games. Took the points.
My Bills played their hearts out everybody! we all saw this. We were about to SHOCK the world..had it all lined up, and then that stupid play by McKelvin..uurrrrrrhhhhhh...I blame the coaches! They should have goten in his face before the kickoff and told him to jus drop..worst case, we punt and Brady drives from their end of the field..this game reminds me of Dallas and Cleveland the last Monday nights..makes me SICK...and I tell you what...the whole city of BUFFALo and Orchard Park is DISMAL today
doesn't get me back my $750..... i wanna shoot #28
Lol. I think the coach told him to burn 6 seconds on the return if the ball came to him. That little bit of hesitation though, it could blow my theory up because if the coach had told him to run it out he wouldn't have hesitated at all. Anyway, I just posted this for fun as a theory, because it seemed like a valid option for the Bills on the return. It was only by staying up on first contact that they got the clock to the two minute warning -- why else would he stay up risking a fumble, eh? But yeah, 6 seconds is only going to get burned on the return if he either doesn't go down easy or if he dances around sacrificing yards for time.
