Cash Posted February 9, 2016 Posted February 9, 2016 I've read here that brain farts can only be blamed on coaching. That said, one guy DID run into him before he fielded the punt, which is what certainly caused the confusion. It looked to me like the first guy pulled up to avoid a penalty -- even without a fair catch, you still have to give the opposing team a chance to catch the punt. He wasn't fully able to stop and made incidental contact, but he was clearly trying to avoid hitting/tackling the returner. I think the second guy saw his teammate pulling up like that and figured that he'd missed the fair catch signal, and so pulled up as well. Yikes.
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