Holding, #21 Kicking Team Penalty Enforced At the Spot of the Foul

[pbmax]

http://imgur.com/a/MLKx2

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BUUUSSSSCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[SkinBasket]

That play was a team-wide embarrassment. The entire ST coaching staff should be fired, and every Packer on the field for that play should be worked over in practice like a mule until they fall over this week.

[Patler]

Bush looks like he is headed in the right direction, doesn't he?

[red]

god help us, bush and the punter were the only ones that actually knew where the ball was going

[red]

Bush looks like he is headed in the right direction, doesn't he?

he is the gunner though, so either he ran right in front of everyone else and they just ignored him, or he was coming from the left and he was grabbed and spun around

if he was grabbed and spun, then #21 is the dumbest man alive for trying to prevent bush from going the wrong way

[pbmax]

He does look headed in the right direction there, but in the replay FOX had, he looped into the middle toward Hester and was way too deep.

Possible the blocking drove him deep or he caught sight of his teammates converging in the middle. But it didn't seem clear he saw Knox and he definitely did not know the ball had landed there.

[mraynrand]

He does look headed in the right direction there, but in the replay FOX had, he looped into the middle toward Hester and was way too deep.

Possible the blocking drove him deep or he caught sight of his teammates converging in the middle. But it didn't seem clear he saw Knox and he definitely did not know the ball had landed there.

He could/should have known something was up, considering 21 and Knox were double teaming him at the start and - I think - on every other punt.

[mraynrand]

That play was a team-wide embarrassment. The entire ST coaching staff should be fired, and every Packer on the field for that play should be worked over in practice like a mule until they fall over this week.

It was a great fake. Guys running down field can't see the ball. They're headed for Hester and he's 'trying to catch the ball.' What are they to do - take their eyes off Hester to locate the ball thinking "Hey Masthay SAID he was going to kick it to the sidelines, so since Hester is drifting to the center of the field and making like he's going to catch it, it must be a ruse so I'll take my eyes off the most dangerous punt returner in the NFL to locate the ball or the other guy involved in a fake punt return - the kind of fake punt I've never seen before in my entire football life or ever on TV" - or maybe they thought "Masthtay kicked it wrong"

Thing is, is that Masthay should never have kicked the ball so that it had any chance of landing in bounds, even if the Bears got it at the 50. That was the unforgivable error on that play.

[gbgary]

i don't think it's the big embarrassment some think it is. you can't be looking up going down field, you'll get killed. in the huddle they say we're punting left but shit happens. punts get blocked, shanked, go deep, fall short, go left, and go right sometimes. when everyone goes right you go right. bush was too busy fighting off the guy to notice right away. they have to come up with some communication solution or as someone mentioned, punt ob. it was just a brilliant fake.

[Freak Out]

god help us, bush and the punter were the only ones that actually knew where the ball was going

Ha ha...

[red]

the play called for mashtay to kick to the left sideline, the whole special teams knew he was kicking that was, yet every single one of them went to the right in one giant mass

it was an awesome play by the bears, but i think our ST should feel pretty stupid too

no staying home, no staying in your lanes. if hester had gotten the ball, the whole opposite side of the field was wide open for him

here's the video

http://www.nfl.com/videos/chicago-bears/09000d5d8228f7c4/The-punt-return-that-never-was

[Bossman641]

the play called for mashtay to kick to the left sideline, the whole special teams knew he was kicking that was, yet every single one of them went to the right in one giant mass

it was an awesome play by the bears, but i think our ST should feel pretty stupid too

no staying home, no staying in your lanes. if hester had gotten the ball, the whole opposite side of the field was wide open for him

here's the video

http://www.nfl.com/videos/chicago-be...that-never-was

Yes, because punters never mishit a ball. What do you expect? 2 guys to converge on hester and the rest to spread out around the field? Give credit where due, it was a great call by dave toub.

[Joemailman]

It's funny how quiet the crowd is even as Knox is running downfield with the ball. They didn't just surprise the Packers, they surprised 70,000 people.

[Joemailman]

Tim Masthay: "Hey!...Hey!...WTF!...You F***in' idiots!"