Why do a lot of people think Milroe

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threw the ball to the wide receiver in an attempt to beat a potential review call? If that's the case, he'd just take a knee! I'm almost 100% certain he threw over there because the receiver was completely uncovered

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That's on him. Bad clock management. During the sideline shot he tells Saban "my bad" after the play.

He was obviously thinking it was a free TD / big yards. I think he 2nd guessed himself mid throw.

It was a mistake but if he threw the ball accurately it would have been ggs. Benson was uncovered. Still wasn’t worth it whatever the reason was.

Honestly I'm surprised they didn't review it....I mean they had to slow it down for me to see his knee was back off the ground...lol

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He was obviously thinking it was a free TD / big yards. I think he 2nd guessed himself mid throw.

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Which would explain that skipping-the-rock-across-the-pond throw

I was wondering about the clock too

Milroe making that throw

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threw the ball to the wide receiver in an attempt to beat a potential review call?I'm almost 100% certain he threw over there because the receiver was completely uncovered

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I think both can be true. I don’t think he was being selfish trying to pad the stats. Just a boneheaded play

If anyone can throw a pick 6 to an UNCOVERED receiver I guess it's us...lol

The McClellan play ends with the clock stopped at 1:50 to reset the chains. During which CBS shows a slow motion replay of the play that lasts 13 seconds. When it returns to the live shot, the clock is at 1:45 and the players in the frame are walking into position pretty casually. Set at 1:41, ball snapped at 1:39 with 18 seconds on the play clock.

Assuming a second or so for human reaction time start/stop the clock plus another few seconds to speak the play into Milroe's ear, I calculate 8-10 seconds regardless of review for Rees to recognize time and score and say kneel on it with the play clock under 3. There's no conceivable reason to look at the play sheet.

The inexplicable part is Rees called a play. Everybody in the box fires off the ball. For that play call, which looked like some kind of RPO, Milroe has an automatic to throw it outside if there's free money over there. Now, there's an implied value that you don't do it if you have the game wrapped up. So I'm splitting the blame pie 70 Rees 30 Milroe. Maybe 60/40.