What happened after the fake punt?

Jkyle · Jan 17, 2022

What happened after the fake punt?
I still can’t figure out why the punter and special teams were still on the field after we got the first down?

Tabascocat · Jan 17, 2022

Idiocracy

cowboyz · Jan 17, 2022

i was told this earlier, i thought it was to get them to use a timeout, like the cardinals to them. but they apparently thought their ST would be better than the 49ers ST to get yards, than the cowboys offense...

Cowfan75 · Jan 17, 2022

It was assumed that we were trying to get SF to burn a TO. It's more likely we are just stupid.

Aven8 · Jan 17, 2022

They had another play called with that unit and someone on the sideline sent the O in. It was a mess

big dog cowboy · Jan 17, 2022

The problem was the ref was standing over the ball and only stepped away so the Cowboys could snap it with less than 2 seconds before the play clock expired. They didn't. Penalty on Cowboys for delay of game.

Jkyle · Jan 17, 2022

Why would a team elect to run an offensive play with their special teams?
I have never heard nor seen that in all the years I’ve been watching football. That’s idiotic and that alone should get McCarthy fired

coult44 · Jan 17, 2022

I swear to God people don’t listen to what’s told to them by the men who know.

There were two plays called using the punt team. After the successful fake punt a player on the bench was celebrating on the field. This caused confusion because he wasn’t supposed to be on the field. This forced the offense to return to the field in a hurry resulting in a jacked up play.

KingintheNorth · Jan 17, 2022

big dog cowboy said:
The problem was the ref was standing over the ball and only stepped away so the Cowboys could snap it with less than 2 seconds before the play clock expired. They didn't. Penalty on Cowboys for delay of game.

You send in subs and the other team gets the opportunity to sub, regardless of how much time is left on the playclock. It was awful, especially with valuable seconds ticking away on the actual game clock.

The fake punt was a good call and much-needed, the play after was pure amateur hour.

KingintheNorth · Jan 17, 2022

coult44 said:
I swear to God people don’t listen to what’s told to them by the men who know.

There were two plays called using the punt team. After the successful fake punt a player on the bench was celebrating on the field. This caused confusion because he wasn’t supposed to be on the field. This forced the offense to return to the field in a hurry resulting in a jacked up play.

No.

TheHerd · Jan 17, 2022

coult44 said:
I swear to God people don’t listen to what’s told to them by the men who know.

There were two plays called using the punt team. After the successful fake punt a player on the bench was celebrating on the field. This caused confusion because he wasn’t supposed to be on the field. This forced the offense to return to the field in a hurry resulting in a jacked up play.

Why do all that? You just jacked the team with a fake punt. Take the win and get on with your normal life. Yet another example of MM not understanding the flow of a game. He may be a worse game day coach than Garrett, and that takes a lot.

charron · Jan 17, 2022

The thought was apparently some thing like this.

We caught them off guard so if we hurry up and line up on the line they would take a timeout. Unfortunately the defense didn't care and they were ready to go. So then we were the ones not ready and the ref was maybe lost adding to the confusion. So we take the penalty, cause morons run this show.

Sydla · Jan 17, 2022

coult44 said:
I swear to God people don’t listen to what’s told to them by the men who know.

There were two plays called using the punt team. After the successful fake punt a player on the bench was celebrating on the field. This caused confusion because he wasn’t supposed to be on the field. This forced the offense to return to the field in a hurry resulting in a jacked up play.

If that’s their explanation woooooo boy.

Wezsh0T · Jan 17, 2022

cowboyz said:
i was told this earlier, i thought it was to get them to use a timeout, like the cardinals to them. but they apparently thought their ST would be better than the 49ers ST to get yards, than the cowboys offense...

Actually, I went back and watched the replay. The 49ers were confused as heck. We should have just snapped the ball. We probably would have gotten 5 yards right there. Too bad we didn't have Pollard or Cedrick Wilson in there to run Wildcat. That might have actually worked.

OriginalNameGuy · Jan 17, 2022

They had an ..unique play drawn up for that unit. I'll be nice. We'll never know what play it will be though. Don't think I wanna know

john van brocklin · Jan 17, 2022

Jkyle said:
What happened after the fake punt?
I still can’t figure out why the punter and special teams were still on the field after we got the first down?

Clown show, for real.
What a cluster!

TheCoolFan · Jan 17, 2022

I believe they wanted to go no-huddle and keep the punting unit out there but a player ran out on the field to celebrate and that allowed SF to substitute their regular defense back out there. The Cowboys realized that and then knew they were screwed with their punting unit out on the field vs. the 49ers D so they had to run out the offense. I think Kearse was the player who was on the field - if you watch at 0:14 Kearse is running back to the sideline

SoBlue128 · Jan 17, 2022

Sydla said:
If that’s their explanation woooooo boy.

They claim the player on the field confused the refs into thinking the Cowboys changed personnel which I know you know by rule allows the 49ers to match. Once Moe Larry and Curly realized the 49ers had their starting D against our ST they tried to send Shemp and the rest of the offense out there. Unfortunately the refs double crossed their ingenious plan so the stooges were foiled once again landing themselves on the couch for the rest of the playoffs.

Adreme · Jan 17, 2022

big dog cowboy said:
The problem was the ref was standing over the ball and only stepped away so the Cowboys could snap it with less than 2 seconds before the play clock expired. They didn't. Penalty on Cowboys for delay of game.

That was because Dallas did a substitution and by rule the 49ers have a right to be given time to do a matching substitute and therefore the ref must block the snap until enough time has passed to allow this. This does not stop the playclock (otherwise you could use substitutions to get around the playclock) and it is up to the offense to do their substitutions early enough that it does not affect the play. However Dallas was dumb and did not leave enough time.

coult44 · Jan 18, 2022

Sydla said:
If that’s their explanation woooooo boy.

That’s Mikes and Bones explanations

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