The Patriots’ game-ending blooper will live on forever, writes ConorOrr
Playing in the background on some distant open tab on my laptop forever will be the ending of, in which a Bill Belichick–coached team lost on the most confounding piece of situational football we have seen in modern NFL history. It is a play so wonderful and unusual to the human eye that we will study it like a potential raw video of the Loch Ness Monster. It will take us years to fully understand it. Centuries.
Meyers caught the ball in traffic, reversed field back toward the 40-yard line and began to open up his stance like a bully palming an ice-filled snowball. He did not want to play a fifth quarter. He wanted to win right there. He hurled the ball diagonally and backward toward midfield as he was violently shoved to the ground by Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby.
The ball never arrived in Jones’s arms. Because Meyers was hit as he released the ball, the pass wobbled toward a Raiders defender, Chandler Jones. Chandler Jones is a former Patriot who stands two inches taller and a quarter-keg heavier than Mac Jones . Chandler placed a hand on Mac and Mac collapsed inward like a folded sleeping bag after a long weekend in the forest.
The Patriots protected their own, knowing this will go down in football infamy. It is the one piece of humility I should not overlook when it comes to the play I cannot stop watching. All of us have wanted to be Meyers. All of us have wanted to jump and twirl and create magic. All of us have chucked paint at a canvas praying for a masterpiece.
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