gimmesix
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3. Call challenge at 4th and 1 at the 20 yard line. I don't know how some of you missed the brilliance here. The plan was to fake a 4th down play, see if the defense will jump offsides as offense rushes to the line, then throw the challenge at 1 second left on play clock. Again, everything to gain nothing to lose situation. Dallas didnt need that time out. It was close enough to review so why NOT try to get Carolina to jump offsides? Well done MM.
This is actually a decent point. We did go up to the line and try to draw them offsides first, then McCarthy threw the challenge flag knowing that he was going to have to burn a timeout anyway. I hadn't thought about that, but it seems pretty obvious now that that's what he was doing on that play. Why just call the timeout when you can challenge the previous play since you're not snapping the ball anyway?