Yeah, especially considering the way the saints stepped up in the second half. I can't feel bad for them though. MN fans have been waiting for a play like that to fall their way, for like 40 years. The commentators were trying to make excuses in the post-game. Ummm, that was a straight up whiff. Williams is going to get to watch that replay 50,000 times in a row on the jumbo tron every time they play vikings. This is why I love the NFL. It's the little things.
I think I've watched replays of the final play 20+ times already. Holy shit. And the fact it was against the Saints, I feel like the 2009 NFCCG has been properly avenged.
I was watching the play by play on a tablet at work, wearing a vikings polo, and real dejected towards the end. I kept telling people, "I'm a vikings fan. I'm ready for us to lose at any given moment." And then Diggs...
That was the best walkoff touchdown since Chris Davis running it 110 yards back in the Iron Bowl. Vikings fans must have been collectively shitting platinum tea trays.
Hell of a game for sure, I’m a die hard Lions fan and I can only hope I get an ending like that before I die for the Lions.
Not only did he completely whiff the tackle, he took out the only other defender that could have gotten close to stopping the play. What a dip shit. The Vikings were out Vikinged. Amazing.
It looked like a bad video game where you have a player just randomly go flying off and do their own thing. It was bizarre.
You KNOW that the D coordinator or the team leaders were screaming "Nobody beats you deep!" and "Do NOT get called for pass interference!" I watched that reply a couple times, and as he closed on Diggs, it was like he was simultaneous thinking "Oh, crap, this is going to be PI" and "Oh, I can't lead with my head!" He seemed to adjust course at the last second with the awkwardness of a newborn giraffe trying to stand.
Yeah, I think his timing was off just a bit, and combined with all the "don't fuck it up" worries, it was just a last minute cranial short-circuit.
Yup. Combine that with the fact that he had already gotten called for holding earlier in the game and that he's a rookie, and it's actually pretty understandable how he managed to fuck up.
In that case, this was an NFL Blitz 2K moment. And just like that game a hand-of-god play was programmed in at the last second to let the trailing team win.
My best guess is that he expected Diggs to immediately move out of bounds after the catch, and obviously Diggs would have, but completely misjudged the timing; took his eye off the ball and expected it to arrive much sooner. That said, he missed by such a wide margin, it really is difficult to say what he was thinking. I can't remember ever seeing a receiver go completely untouched in a situation like that.
My first impression was that he was trying to take out Diggs' legs and just missed. He put his head down too early which caused him to mistime his tackle.
Sometimes sports is cool. Thomas Morstead, the Saints punter, broke his ribs on the first punt of the game while tacking the return man. He played for the rest of the game, which in itself is badass. But then that infamous point after happened, and there were no saints on the field. So he led a contingent of them out of the locker room for that final meaningless play. Again, that itself is also badass. As a thank you though, Vikings fans started donating like crazy to his charity foundation. And now he's donating 100% of the funds raised by Vikings fans to a children's hospital in MN.
I'm so sick of seeing the patriots in the super bowl. Would Belichick and Brady just retire already? Another 4th quarter comeback! Yeah, like the whole country didn't see that coming. Sigh. I'm totally fine with seeing them demolish the eagles in the super bowl though. That wretched fan base deserves nothing.
I guess when they leave the Football category for last, Trebek should've known it wasn't going to go well. https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/959205009836650498
Jimmy G just got paid. Good for him - 27.5M/Yr over 5 years. This is going to be one of the biggest mistakes in New England Patriot history before it is said and done.