“bad things happen when you duck your head trying to make a tackle..”
That defensive back got himself caught in nowheres land. I think he thought he was going to get to the receiver too early creating a pass interference penalty which would have put the Vikings in field goal position. He let off hoping the pass would not be completed next thing you know touchdown game over. Either that or he’s going to Vegas to cash in big time next week.
NFL needs to investigate it. The whiff was intentional.
I kind of had the feeling that he was worried about causing a pass interference.
I thought he was trying to avoid a pass interference call also.
The point spread was 5.5. The Vikings won by 5 so the Saints still covered the spread because the Vikings didn't go for the meaningless extra point.
I was at the home of a huge Vikings fan. Talk about manic-depression-manic-depression-mania in the last five minutes.
It looked like he originally wanted to make a big sports center hit on the receiver causing an incompletion. He realized too late he had mistimed the hit. If he had had the situational awareness to let the receiver catch the ball and then simply wrap him up in an old fashioned tackle.....well he didn’t.