4th and Inches in OT

[*jason*]

(09-13-2021, 06:19 PM)Beaker Wrote: One of the first things I saw post game were threads on Reddit saying that Burrow had audibled out of a run play to throw that pass to Uzomah to clinch the game in OT. There were multiple screen shots of Burrow doing so. Then it comes out in the press this morning that he indeed did audible to the pass play.

I got to thinking that took balls to go against the coach. But then I thought that if Burrow has the freedom to audible, then all he had to say when he came back to the sideline was that he didn't like the look the D was giving him so he called an audible. So then I hear Zach Taylor say that he sent two plays in and let Burrow call the one he wanted. At that point, I immediately saw that as a face saving statement. You know damn well Burrow wouldn't have had to audible, he would have just had the pass play called if that's what had happened.

All I could think of at that point was in the movie Rudy, near the end, when they are trying to get Rudy into the game. Devine calls to take a knee. They get to the huddle and the guys say "forget Devine Tommy, we have to score now for Rudy!...C'mon!" I started laughing picturing Burrow in the huddle saying "Forget Zach guys, we have to score now, c'mon!" And the rest is history.

Anybody else think Burrow called that play on his own?

Yep... Burrow is too green and too classy to say otherwise (ala LeBron James telling the media that he went rogue on a play drawn up by David Blatt to hot the game winner), but it sure as hell looked like he changed the play at the line.