What an awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful play call!
There was a bad play call in the play-offs that one of the greats tweeted that they'd be telling their grandchildren about how bad it was. I can't remember what it was - can anyone? - because this was so much worse.
You have the game for the taking. Your main running back has demonstrated throughout that he gets the two yards distance to the goal line after he's been tackled. If, by some miracle, the defence get to him before gets to the line of scrimmage, you have more plays and a time out. If you spot that it's likely to happen, your QB can be in the endzone with the ball before they realise the RB hasn't got it. WTF would you want to throw it?!?
Especially to someone who's outside the endzone?!?
And after telegraphing that you were going for a pass by lining up without a running back?!?
The only way that a pass could possibly have made sense in that situation is if one of Lynch's legs had dropped off. Even then, you tape it back on and send him in so that the defence are expecting a run...