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The author tried waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too hard to sound smart.
I presume that would be Alex, because Kaepernick will just pitch it to the other team when nursing a one-score lead.
The author tried waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too hard to sound smart.
Lol.
Why has the term "pitch" been used, instead of throw?
You're not the first person to use that term, I've been hearing that play described as pitch. (I haven't seen the play yet, just heard about it).
Is the video from the end part of the same game? Why does the quality and turf look greener?
How much time was on the clock? Probably the easiest thing would have been to throw the ball out of bounds, to use up clock, right?
Can a non-kicker/punter kick the ball? What happens if he does? So when # 19 went after the ball, could he have just kicked it in some random direction (maybe out of bounds)?
I will probably explain much more than I need to, so please don't take this as an insult to your knowledge of football. I just tend to give descriptive explanations.
The video is from the end of the loss to the Rams and the video was probably someone recording his television, as opposed to digital feed on his computer. Depending on the settings, colors will look different, but always the quality is poorer.
There was 3:04 left at the end of the play (3:11 at the snap). Throwing it out of bounds stops the clock (where as throwing in-field, lets the clock run down) and when you throw it away from where he threw it, you have to have a reciever in the area of the throw. Otherwise, it's a penalty for intentionally throwing (grounding) it away. The reason for intentional grounding rule is because the defense is doing well if they can sack you, if all you had to do was throw it out of bounds, everyone would do it and the defense would be at a disadvantage. It rewards a defense for good play, but if there's a reciever in the area of the throw, then the QB did attempt a legitimate pass, and therefore penalty would be unwarranted). If you leave the pocket (middle of the field), you just need to throw it beyond the line of scrimmage where the play started. So throwing it away is best, but a bit difficult depending on the play and the pressure.
The refs incorrectly called Kaepernick for intentional grounding earlier in the game because they said the ball didn't pass the line of scrimmage, when it in fact, did. It's not a play that the refs can review because it's a penalty, not a ruling on the field, like say a catch or no catch. Since the pass was in the endzone, the Rams were given 2 points for a safety, because in an intentional grounding situation, you are assumed down at the point of release.
If #19 kicked the ball out of bounds, with no intention to recover it, it would have been a penalty (half the distance to the goal) - which would have been well worth it. The Niners would be kicking from the endzone (risky) and the Rams would be closer to their goal, but there'd be no touchdown. If #19 kicked it out of the endzone, it would be 2 points for the Rams (safety) and the Niners would have to kick it to the Rams (assuming no trickery). It would be 10-4 with the Rams probably around the 20 yard line, with 80 yards to go in three minutes. They hadn't gone that far all game, so it would have been difficult to do against the Niners great defense.
Many little things could have happened differently for the Niners to win. It was a perfect storm type of thing. The next possession, the Niners scored a field goal, before the Rams did, too. But there was one pass the reciever should have caught that would have been a TD for SF. Instead, the clock that they were trying to run out stopped. Then, the QB ran out of bounds, again stopping the clock. If the Niners ran the ball instead of the dropped pass, that would be 40 seconds off the clock (or the Rams would have to take their last timeout). Running out of bounds stopped the clock too - not doing so would have run 40 more seconds off the clock (or force the last timeout). The Rams needed that timeout in order to maximize their time to score the tying field goal. The Niners defense also had a semi-bogus unnecessary roughness penalty (bogus as in they didn't hit the helmet, but semi because it was a judgment call on whether it was late) - that made the fireld goal close enough for their rookie field goal kicker to tie the game.
Thanks, I didn't know those things.
Back to the video though, don't the colors look a lot different in the first 8 seconds, and from 9 seconds to 14 seconds? It's almost as if it's not from the same game.
Ohhh... the play at the end that they don't show the whole thing, the second was from the Bears game (at home, Rams on the road), I didn't watch that because it was a different play. I thought you were asking if the video was from the same game as the pitch play I was referring to. I was confused, I thought "that is the same play, so of course, that's the same game."
Phil Jackson can't win with this roster either. They're most likely going to have a bottom 4 seed, and they'd need another low seed to break through to have homecourt beyond the 1st round.
And even though I don't think homecourt matters as much if you're an elite team, I think they're just too behind the 8-ball.
I don't think teams that get off to this kind of a start recover to go to the NBA Finals.
Dallas, in 2010-2011, didn't have that great of a regular season, though, but it wasn't this bad.
I want Jackson back and then for us to beat him. This is and sounds like blasphemy, but I wanted the Lakers to win it with Malone and I wanted Jackson to win his last threepeat - but only because the Jazz weren't in it. I feel dirty. Going to bed without a midnight snack as part of my punishment for my basketball sins.