I Don't Blame Hill

[jfkbengals]

It was the right play call, but the players HAVE to know to put two hands on the ball and go down at contact and not fight for extra yards.

Had he gone down at contact, it brings up second and 5 and the Steelers have to use the first of their three timeouts. Repeat twice and run out their timeouts, hopefully getting the first down as well. With the first down you can take a knee to end the game.

Just taking the knee and kicking a FG takes three seconds off of the clock after their time outs and gives them the ball back trailing by less than a TD.