Race doesn't want to hear anything that deviates from his narrative.
I don't think that's true. It's definitely not true for me. I'm 100% on the side of it being the wrong call. Had it worked I would have shaken my head and breathed a sigh of relief, then I would have watched the same Husky offense get stoned on the other side of the 50 and held my breath again as they attempted a long field goal.
The only way UW wins that game is if they punt that one deep and get a turnover in the red zone.
Or Shaq takes that fake to the house or close to it. Bad gamble, but it actually had a better chance of success than the Husky offense doing anything from anyplace on the field. Playing the trade punt game and failing to force turnover deep or defensive TD would have taken us to overtime at best, where I wouldn't have liked our chances.
My disagreement in this thread is with the statement that the defense was shutting Stanford down, because it wasn't, and with the statement that the fake punt cost UW the game, because it didn't. The offensive ineptitude and inability to stop Stanford's offense after the fake cost the game. The block in the back by Campbell cost UW the game. A lot of things cost UW the game.
Of course it isn't true. I already said it was the wrong call.
Some folks struggle with nuance. UW wasn't shutting Stanford down. Simple fact.
Without using your hindsight, what did you see from their offense that leads you to believe this?
Was it the 13 points they scored in the first 55 minutes of the game or the three TOs?
364 yards and 22 first downs isn't shutting a team down, HTH
That seemed obvious but perhaps it did need to be spelled out for the slow