For the second straight season, the Dallas Cowboys — the team that popularized the 'Hail Mary' pass almost 50 years ago — never even had a prayer of heaving it into the end zone against the San Francisco 49ers.
“I don’t really want to get into detail on it, but that obviously wasn’t the plan,” McCarthy said afterward, declining to discuss what was supposed to happen on that last play.McCarthy decided to punt the ball on fourth-and-10 following a sack of Prescott at the Dallas 18 with just under 3 minutes remaining. That’s a debatable decision, but it’s the nearly 40 seconds the Cowboys took to punt the ball that had their flustered fans fuming.
There’s a couple of more plays right there that the Cowboys could have had once they got the ball back at their 6 with just 45 seconds and no timeouts remaining. .On third-and-1 from the Dallas 15, Prescott hit Schultz with a 9-yard pass with 28 seconds remaining. But Schultz wasn’t going forward as he went out of bounds on a hit by cornerback Charvarius Ward, so the clock kept ticking and went all the way down to 14 seconds before Prescott took the next snap and threw incomplete.
Then, on second-and-10 from his 24 with 10 seconds left, Prescott again found Schultz, this time for 15 yards to the Dallas 39, just about the outer limits for Prescott to try a Hail Mary on the final snap.The catch was reversed on replay because Schultz never got his second foot down as he nonchalantly strode out of bounds.
That brought up third-and-10 from the 24 with 6 seconds left and Dallas had Elliott replace Tyler Biadasz at center with the guards and tackles lined up wide. .“It appears that Zeke is going to go to center,” Olsen said excitedly. “This looks like my flag football team. Obviously Mike McCarthy has been working on his end-of-game scenario, and let’s see what he’s got!”Dallas didn’t change the formation or the call when play resumed. Elliott snapped the ball and was plowed over.
And the Cowboys were left heading into another offseason lamenting a loss to the 49ers in the playoffs because they couldn’t get off a Hail Mary to give them a fighting chance.
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