[rs79bm]

Okay, so Cris Collinsworth sometimes says some crazy/stupid things, but didn't the Giants have a timeout left? Why couldn't he have gotten tackled, and call a timeout? He still would have had 1 or 2 seconds left. OR, why couldn't he have thrown an incomplete pass out of bounds, and/or then used a time out/kill the clock. In either case, why try for a field goal on third down if you don't expect to have another chance on fourth down if something goes wrong I.E bad snap, etc...

[discostu]

Because the kick was already coming from the outside of their kickers range (he'd already missed one from 1 yard further out). Taking the tackle moves everything back 7 or so yards. Throwing an incomplete pass out of bound while inside "the box" is intentional grounding. A poster above really hit was his best option was, throw it to the feet of the guy on the outside left of the line, he's an elligible receiver, and as long as there's a snowballs chance in hell a pass could be caught they'll never call it intentional grounding. Also not running around like an idiot and hoovering up clock would have been a good idea. No matter how you slice it he did the absolute wrong thing in that circumstance.