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00:00All right, so Lions kick the field goal.
00:04Minnesota gets the ball back with 15 seconds to go on their own 30.
00:11And the Lions defensively drop 10 and rush no one and have one guy standing there but
00:19not rushing.
00:22Like spying, making sure that Darnold can't, you know, pick up 10 yards just running without
00:27running the risk of being tackled inbounds.
00:31And I'm thinking, when I first saw it, I'm like, they're rushing no one.
00:35So the offensive line is standing there.
00:38And Darnold, I think instinctively, is like, I got all the time in the world here to receive
00:44it.
00:45Yeah.
00:46But you know what he didn't have?
00:47He didn't have all the time in the world.
00:48So while you're watching the play develop, yeah, what's going through in your mind?
00:53At first, I was like, my first thought was, why aren't they rushing anyone?
01:00And then I'm like, oh my God, Darnold's waiting for somebody to come.
01:04Like he's feeling no pressure from a pass rush.
01:08So he's standing back there.
01:11And I wonder if the Lions intentionally thought he's going to think he's got forever when
01:16all he has is 15 seconds.
01:19And it almost, and maybe kind of did, kill the clock.
01:23And I don't know how intentional it was to basically bait the quarterback into thinking
01:30he's got all the time because on the football field, in the play, he had all the time in
01:37the world.
01:38And I think that kicked in.
01:40Doug, it was pure savagery by Aaron Glent.
01:47I think it was a Jedi mind trick.
01:48It was brilliant.
01:50Because as the play's going on, I'm thinking to myself, because this never even crossed
01:54my mind, I'm thinking that, oh no, he's going to have plenty of time to set up and throw
01:59a deep pass and get the pass interference or whatever.
02:03But then as the seconds are ticking off, I'm like, wait a minute.
02:06And then he launches the pass over across the middle of the field.
02:09And only then did it dawn on me, they have no timeouts.
02:13He's going to get tackled in the middle of the field.
02:16They're going to run out of time.
02:17Yes.
02:18It was brilliant by Aaron Glent.
02:20So I don't know how intentional it was, like, we're not going to rush anybody.
02:25And he's going to stand back there patting the football as the game ticks away.
02:31And I'd never seen a team rush no one.
02:36And they, yes, there was one defensive lineman standing there, but have you ever seen a team
02:41rush no one?
02:42I don't think so.
02:43Have you ever seen a team rush no one?
02:46I mean, I feel like it's definitely happened where, you know, like one or two guys lined
02:50up and they're not really trying.
02:51I mean, they had, like you said, a Lee McNeil was there, but he knew I'm not busting through
02:55like three guys to get there.
02:57I'm just kind of here or six.
03:01So no, I don't really recall that, but it was brilliant by Aaron Glent.
03:04I believe it was intentional as well.
03:06Gator, make him think he's got all day because he does not have all day.
03:11But I think in football and like if you're just playing, if you're a quarterback and
03:15you're back there and there's nobody rushing, you're like, OK, I got time to wait, let somebody
03:20come open.
03:21But the last thing, the thing he didn't have was time.
03:23Yeah.
03:24And also with that being said, even if he wanted to get something off quick, dude, you've
03:27still got to, you know, there's still it's a zone defense.
03:30You still got to find the hole.
03:31It's not like, you know, there's everyone just standing there wide open.
03:34There's 10 guys covering.
03:36There were 10 guys covering five.
03:40So or four.
03:41I mean, it was it was potentially if that was their intent.
03:48It was brilliant.
03:49Then the next play, they get the bonus play, which feels like a rules loophole if you've
03:53ever seen one, dude.
03:55But they get the bonus play.
03:56And what do they do?
03:58They rush five.
03:59They don't just rush for they rush five on the next play and get home, get the sack.
04:04And I just feel like that was some some late game strategic brilliance by Aaron Glenn on
04:12both those plays to rush no one and then to rush five that I think both times, Minnesota,
04:19I think Minnesota took the bait on rushing no one and then wasn't prepared when they
04:24rushed five.
04:26It was great.
04:27It was brilliant.
04:28I thought it was such a plus, a check plus effort from Aaron Glenn and the defense in
04:34coming up with that just for those last plays.
04:36And yes, 100% agree.
04:37I mean, King sent the text out right away after that play that that's a loophole that
04:42course the Lions get exposed for the loophole.
04:45And it's something that should change because it makes no sense the way the rule is written.
04:50Teams running the clock it, hey, okay, they're set, but they're not in the right formation.
04:56There's a flag for that.
04:58And somehow all they do is get backed up five yards.
05:02It makes it doesn't make any sense.
05:04Wow.
05:05It should be a it should be a runoff.
05:06One would think, but it wasn't.
05:09I wonder if that rule is going to change in three, two, one, because according to Blandino,
05:14all you have to do is be set and by being set means just like standing still.
05:19And so all essentially you have to do is run the center and quarterback up there.
05:22Everyone don't move.
05:23Well, we'll spike it.
05:24It's an illegal formation.
05:25It's just an illegal formation.
05:28We'll take the five yards for the clock stopping.
05:31And did you hear what O'Connell was going to do had they not called that penalty?
05:36He was going to kick a field goal.
05:37He was going to kick a 68-yard field goal.
05:39But since they got moved back five, 73 was too much for him.
05:42Well, the crazy thing is, is Reichert, their kicker, he was Alabama's kicker last year.
05:48And one of the things I do every pregame is watch how good how far the kickers are good
05:51out to.
05:52And Reichert was booming them through it at the Rose Bowl from 60 with room to spare.
05:58And that was in the back of my mind because he's the kicker in Minnesota.
06:01And I'm like, perfect.
06:02I know that this guy has got a just an absolute cannon of a leg.
06:08And I'm not surprised that that was the plan, but didn't get to execute it.