kingpincarbs

@vanzack

 Good point. I may be giving him too much credit for this. I really could see a situation where they stop them on 3rd down and the chargers coach letting them run the clock down and Vegas calls the timeout with 3 seconds left to go for the freeroll winner. 

@Vegas502

 That’s a lie because they would have just kneeled down on 3rd down after the timeout. There was only 38 seconds on the clock and if they come out in victory formation the chargers aren’t calling a timeout after the kneel down lol ?? 

@vanzack

 No, I think the timeout he did call was right because he did it when the game clock was at 39 seconds. He waited I believe to give him an extra chance to end the game. If the raiders intent was to end the game in a tie, the timeout at 39 seconds gives the raiders time to realize that a kneel down ends the game because there are less than 40 seconds going to the 3rd down play. It was obvious to Staley the raiders were not going to kneel down so he called timeout, to give himself a freeroll on raiders deciding after the timeout that a kneel down just ends this. They didn’t do that and Staley got confused by that and he kept a db playing back to hedge a deep pass td (which was also a freeroll if they did that) 

@vanzack

 Didn’t he call timeout after 3rd down play? 

the decision to call the timeout was genius, but it backfired because they couldnt stop the run. The raiders were planning on running it down to 2-3 seconds on play clock, then run the ball (assumed they get stuffed), and then they were going to run the game clock to 3 seconds for a time expiring walk off 57 yarder (Carlson is an elite fg kicker- he’s the next Tucker was a 4th round pick). They get the 5 seed with a win and a 7 with a tie. They aren’t playing for a tie with an elite fg kicker in a dome who has already hit from high 50s this year.

so back to the timeout, if the raiders ran the ball and got stuffed after the timeout, Staley would have instantly called his final timeout. Why? To prevent the raiders from running the clock down to 3 seconds and kicking a 57 yard game expiring fg. If you call the timeout here with 30 seconds and it’s 4th down the raiders play for the tie. The field goal is no longer a “freeroll” because if you miss it, the chargers have the ball midfield with 30 seconds left and you are 1 15-20 yard pass from missing the playoffs. Obviously they punt it on 4th down with 30 seconds left and chargers kneel it for the tie. 

the media and moronic fans have no clue what they are talking about. Staley made the right call but he can’t explain it to low iq morons in this country because nobody can think. 

yeah im an NBA square. 

isnt this an obvious mash?