The way I understand, is the Hawks had a hurt player on the field and tried to get him off. They probably should have just let the refs allow for a hurt player to be attended to.
The clock and no timeouts were their enemy, even from the one yard line.
Coaches took way too long getting the play and personnel in. Lynch was back and forth for 20 seconds. That's on the staff. They were not prepared and did not get their people in position.
Good comment, the Hawks have played better (7-1) on the road then (4-4) at home. I have a good feeling that the Hawks will beat the Eagles next Sunday.
I re-watched just that play a couple of times last night (because I read a couple people say they thought there was a shorted playclock):
... re-watching, I do think they were just caught off-guard by the situation that happened.
#2- that's a good point. If that's the case Fant not going down really cost them. But I thought I saw Lynch ready to come in but maybe that was after it was too late.I re-watched just that play a couple of times last night (because I read a couple people say they thought there was a shorted playclock):
#1 - The playclock was not short; it started immediately after the play at :40 (I thought the rule might have been from setting the ball but looked it up and it was administered correctly)
#2 - Fant was definitely injured, but he did not go down for attendance like he should have; if I understand the rules correctly, doing that would not have cost them anything (including a 10 second run-off, because the clock was not running)
#3 - Immediately prior to that play, Lynch had his helmet off and his beanie cap on; I don't think that the Hawks were planning on a scenario where they would put an RB, back in... particularly not BEASTMODE... I don't think they were prepared for a play to happen at the goalline, given the circumstances
When it happened live, I thought they may have been intentionally taking a delay to have more space for the play(s) they wanted to run from there (since running up the middle even once might have been the last play of the game if it got stopped)
I re-watched just that play a couple of times last night (because I read a couple people say they thought there was a shorted playclock):
#1 - The playclock was not short; it started immediately after the play at :40 (I thought the rule might have been from setting the ball but looked it up and it was administered correctly)
#2 - Fant was definitely injured, but he did not go down for attendance like he should have; if I understand the rules correctly, doing that would not have cost them anything (including a 10 second run-off, because the clock was not running)
#3 - Immediately prior to that play, Lynch had his helmet off and his beanie cap on; I don't think that the Hawks were planning on a scenario where they would put an RB, back in... particularly not BEASTMODE... I don't think they were prepared for a play to happen at the goalline, given the circumstances
When it happened live, I thought they may have been intentionally taking a delay to have more space for the play(s) they wanted to run from there (since running up the middle even once might have been the last play of the game if it got stopped)
