Do you agree with the fake field-goal punt call?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

I dunno if you could tell on the broadcast, but the wind was an absolute menace yesterday. It was a steady 15-20 and swirling.

Wind was blowing towards the east endzone from above the stadium and towards the west end zone from the tops of the uprights. The flags above the stadium were screaming in one direction while the streamers on the uprights were going the other.

It was bizarre.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Wind was blowing towards the east endzone from above the stadium and towards the west end zone from the tops of the uprights. The flags above the stadium were screaming in one direction while the streamers on the uprights were going the other.

It was bizarre.

Yeah, we're right above the east endzone and the flags above the west jumbotron were right in our face and the FG flags by us were going the other way. It was weird.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by smithandrew051

We were up 10. 2 possession game.

If we make it, it’s still a 2 possession game. If we miss it, it’s 2 possessions but great field position.

Exactly. All a made FG would've done was take a tie off the table. And frankly, if you blow a 10 point lead in 2 minutes to a team with no TOs, what are the odds of you stopping the bleeding in OT anyway? The FG accomplishes very very little there.

Originally Posted by O.city

Yeah, we're right above the east endzone and the flags above the west jumbotron were right in our face and the FG flags by us were going the other way. It was weird.

I think the FG he missed was one where he expected the wind to move the ball and it just didn't happen. Granted, I think he missed a little as well, but I think he was aiming at that right upright with the wind blowing in and curling it to the middle. But when he missed right on the upright and then the ball just blasted dead straight through the wind, I'm betting that just caught him completely off guard.

I wonder if the miss a little right also had the ball going more end over end then he expected. If he was trying to hit the ball a little to the outside to pull it towards the upright, maybe the wind actually acts on the ball and pulls it the rest of the way. But by hitting it dead straight, it went directly end over end and with no initial english on the ball, the wind just didn't do anything to it at all.

He just hit the ball way too true for me to think it was an outright miss. I think he was expecting more action on the ball than he got.