Legitimately the worst football play I have ever seen hands down bar none. I don't know if he was going for a music city miracle type thing, but if he had just stepped out of bounds the Saints would have ~5-6 seconds for a hail mary.
It was fucking incredible. Only worse thing is running wrong way for a TD, nothing else I have ever seen is comparable. This is a week after the greatest play I have seen (the vertical fumble that inexplicably bounced 9-10 yards off a shoulder pad back to Luck for a TD last week). Super entertaining playoffs. Historic level of super weird broken plays so far.
The announcers just don't get it here. The reason the pats' punter raised the ball up was so he could throw it, get an incompletion, and turn the ball over on downs at the line of scrimmage (around midfield) instead of their own 3.
Or he just panicked, hell if I know
I was really fucking confused by the announcers, the way they repeated themselves over and over like he definitively did the wrong thing....what is wrong with eating 2 points instead of 3 or 7? So fucking confused.
Even if the expected value of an extra Colts possession is like 1.5 points or something in addition to the 2 pionts, the expected value of the being at the 2 yard line with such a good TD chance w/99% likely to hit FG as alternative has to be higher than that. The announcers repeated themselves like four fucking times though, it was really bizarre...especially when they had to basically have a guy come back and as far as I can tell clear up that there was absolutely nothing wrong with taking the safety. So what the fuck were the announcers ranting about lol??
I mean the one thing I could see is if the way he coughed it up led to a TD, that would be terrible, but the announcers seemed to think the safety was the mistake.