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Originally Posted by CooleyAsCanBe
Another reason to appreciate John Harbaugh is how brilliantly he coached the safety play. Not only was it the right call, but it was executed perfectly with shrewd coaching, running the clock all the way down the four seconds.
I'm positive Harbaugh told all his players to hold the 49ers defenders and there were at least 4-5 holding penalties that should have been called on the Ravens (including at least on blatent tackle), but since they would only have resulted in a safety (which was the goal anyway) and not any change to the kicking position, the holds effectively ran about five extra seconds off the clock and kept the 49ers from running an offensive play.
Brilliant call by a coach who knows his stuff.
Someone else who agrees already put the play to music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXShuFueII |
It kind of reminds me of the play from the Replacements when the Washington team just flat laid into every member of the Dallas team. In the movies the refs were like: Personal foul on 10, 12,18,30 46 etc. Was hilarious
But to the point of this thread, how was no flag thrown on that? I get that it doesn't change anything, but several yellow flags should have come out.