Have you EVER seen such a move? I can remember the Ducks did an onside kick out of the blue before... but man talk about having some balls. They blow that and the game completely turns around. I swear I thought the ball went over the punters head.
I was shocked. I thought it was a botched punt. I was already starting to say, "oh man.... here comes a safety" when the camera angle changed and they showed Clay racing down the field. I couldn't believe it. Plays like that make me love Chip Kelly.
It took a big sack of nuts to do it, but based on how well it worked he had to have been 100% sure he was gonna get that 3 yards. The Beavers left it wide open for them.
Kelly said afterward that they had been practicing that all week and were going to do it the first punt of the game no matter where it was. That was the first punt of the game. Not balls as so much following a well researched, scripted and practiced game plan.
LOL! There must have been something Chip & Co. had seen on the tape that made them believe they could take advantage of their over-aggressiveness. I don't think he called that because he had a feeling. The way that play developed couldn't have been drawn up any better. The guy over the left guard slanted into the A-gap, and there was a hole big enough for a Freightliner to drive through untouched.
That's a bullshit answer though You can script whatever you want, but it takes balls to call that play at that point in the game on your own... what.... 10 yard line?
[video=youtube;sEc3zzMy-ms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEc3zzMy-ms[/video] You look like a dumb ass if it don't work.
Except MSU saw that coming from a mile away. They didn't even rush the punt. Chip obviously knew that OSU was going to try to rush, that's why the fake worked.
