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  • October 23, 2014 at 11:22 pm #10325
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    I have never seen anything like that in my life.

    It took me about 4 replays to simply figure out what happened. Un-freaking-believable.

    I still don’t totally get it. The ball was kicked to the Rams’ right. Obviously, they had no control over that. Were they simply waiting for a ball that wasn’t kicked to their left?

    Anyway, it was the damnedest thing. Kudos to Fassell.

    I haven’t enjoyed the Rams completely outfoxing an opponent like that since Martz’s heyday!

    By virtue of the absurd ...

    October 23, 2014 at 11:42 pm #10328
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    Fassel talked about it. They saw it on film. Chicago ran a similar play years ago with Hester, which was called back. What they saw was that when Seattle’s punter wants to pin a team back, the ball go’s to their left, or the Rams’s right. So they simply set it up to take the coverage unit toward Austin in the opposite direction. The problem Bailey had is that he couldn’t run TOWARD the ball, because facing the ball would give it away. He had to run with the ball and catch it over his shoulder.

    It took me awhile when that play was happening to figure it out.

    October 24, 2014 at 4:16 am #10330
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    Bailey is the guy I would trust to make that catch. He is really good at tracking the ball in the air. It does also shows that you can throw deep anytime. If Bailey can start at the line of scrimmage, facing backwards and still catch the ball that far down the field, then the QB can always get off a punt like throw. GO DEEP! 😉

    Agamemnon

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