Why throw the ball with a first and goal from the 2 yard line?

My only thought is when the field is shortened everyone stacks the box. Had we actually not just let the DE through unblocked and MAC isn’t getting hit as soon as he rolls it may have been successful. Najee and Waddle were absolutely going off. Thank God Waddle is back next year.

Sark coached to win Saturday.

I got no problem with it.

I got nothing

We've had problems on obvious short yardage rushing situations the past couple of years. And honestly we've run that type of play a lot in that situation in the past. Heck the Upchurch TD in the Iron Bowl our 1st title season was a similar play.

it was a perfect play call. Just poor/unfortunate execution.
Recall that this was about the fourth consecuctive play from inside the 10 yard line (AU had 2 PI penalties) Teh couple of other run attempts were jammed at the LOS.
This play, if nothing else, was set up on 1st down to open up the defense.
The biggest mistake made in the play was Kaho (normally a LB) was lined up at FB and totally ignored the block on the charging DE for AU. Had he even just rubbed him, Mac gets around him and cake walks into the endzone. Or he could have thrown it to Najee who had his man beat (thus how the luck of his getting that INT) by two or three steps. Worst case was an incomplete pass. But when Kaho ignored the block, Mac should have just eaten the ball. But to his defense, even in that split second he could see Najee was wide open.

That was a TD. The only reason why it turned into a pick six is because the DE was in Mac Jones’s face as soon as the ball was snapped, forcing him to throw it earlier than he wanted to. If he had had time, the ball is out in front of Harris instead of a little behind him and we take a 38-30 lead.

what happen to lining up D Lineman.. that always worked..