Glad to hear that. It was the apparent lie that bothered me the most. Not thrilled with the clock management, but thats nothing compared to lying about telling JJ to spike it. I'm back in his corner now. Now Les can take measures to make sure the clock management issues NEVER happen again. Next time will be inexcusable IMHO. I can live with mistakes, as long as one learns from them.
A question that comes to mind is why call clock it if they thought there were 12 men on the field? Just run any play...take a snap and you get the same result if there are 12 men. I still believe his explanation.
quickest play to signal in? just motion like you're spiking it instead of running through a progression of hand signals
No, it proves that he did not want to mess up AGAIN by not having the field goal team ready IF by some miracle we would get another play. I think you are reading too much into this.
<--- Is probably as old as you but still had to google Zapruder. My main question is, why didn't JJ throw the ball into the endzone on the Hail Mary? This was supposed to be a last ditch effort to score. No one expected a short throw with any time left, thus the mass confusion. Now, JJ was under extreme pressure but he should have realized he had to scramble to buy time and then loft it into the endzone.
I can't look at the Youtube videos posted (at work) but everything credible I have heard about them says that they were edited to look that way and they didn't happen in the sequence it shows. As I remember it from originally watching it, after the spike he looked like he wanted to talk to the officials and then went and talked with JJ. He didn't go skip down the line in a kicking motion after it. I could be wrong, just my recolection. As for the theory about him looking at where the ball would be spot to clock it. 1) The ball wouldn't be spot exactly where he was tackled because it would have to be moved to the hash. 2) When was the last time you were really excited, and wanted to convey a message to someone really fast, but didn't look at the person to try and convey that message?
Sorry I just can not buy it. That is not how you would signal that your reciever was down. Rasing your arm way up in down in a spiking motion....please he would have been running straight out pointing straight to the ground and yelling at the officials. He is a bigger liar than first believed. Let's face it he is only as good as his assistants.....he is a deer in the headlights.
why not? an official on the field uses a very similar motion so signal a guy was down in live action.
For the record, I still think Miles was motioning and sating "clock it" last week. But is he a liar? Before I even think that, I have to hold myself to the same standards...and I can't. I'm 1,000 more times a liar than Miles is...The priest that hears most of my confessions would undoubtedly agree, and he only knows the half of it . The same for the rest of us. Who was it that said, "Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story."? :lol:. Even George Washington lied...he was a politician.
