Quote Originally Posted by argolio View Post
The best play there was to go down and set up a FG attempt, but I get that most players instinctively think they can take it to the house once they break free from initial contact. Kicking the ball was a very low percentage play. Rhymes could have just as easily shanked or missed the ball entirely, and that's with a huge assumption that a kick was possible with DBs in hot pursuit. As a non-kicker, he would have had to slow down a bit in order to attempt a kick.
Agreed on all points. I have re-watched the play several times. Rhymes caught the ball between the 40 and 45 (making it a 52 yard FG attempt at the most) with 4 seconds left and got down to the 32, where he broke a tackle, with 2 seconds left. It's unfortunate that he didn't just go down somewhere between catching the ball and breaking that tackle but I also understand that once he broke that tackle, he felt like there was nobody between him and the endzone.