Kirby Yelling at Puglisi?

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Best I've seen on Twitter

Mad about the kneel down everyone says but when I was watching it live it looked like he let it go down as close as possible to zero before snapping and kneeling.

Unless he fricked up the kneel on the first down

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The snap was as good as it could have been handled.

Pugs immediately took the knee.
All he had to do was hold it 1 second before kneeling.

I don't recall him taking an immediate knee...looked like he paused for a click or two...I guess he was supposed to pause longer though

It all makes sense what you said.

The only thing is in the video it just doesnt look like it was meant to be an option read to me, usually if that is the case the QB will be reading the DE and have his eyes on him, this takes an extra second so the play develops a little slower.

As best I can tell in the video Gunner neither was reading the DE with his eyes nor was their a delay in the handoff that youd normally see while the QB is making the decision on the option to keep or give.

To me it simply looks like a HB dive from everyones perspective except the RT and the RG, who as you accurately pointed out are blocking the play as if they may need to seal the edge for a QB keeper on the outside.

Very strange thing indeed. Maybe there was a breakdown of communication on what play was being run between multiple different people in multiple different position groups. If thats the case it seems odd to single out Nate and yell at him for it, especially when he turned it into a 7 yard gain