If you think that was an erroneous penalty then you should also note that they called a "tripping" penalty on the Niners in the red zone that negated a first down inside the five yard line which pushed them back to the twenty which resulted in the Alex smith interception in the previous drive.
This. Rule #1 of football is that you do not take points off the board. Other than a roughing the kicker penalty which gives you a fresh set of downs, you do not take points off the board. Harbaugh is the only coach in the NFL that makes that decision.
Of course the call made perfect logical sense to Seahawk backers, but honestly that was one of the most baffling and head scratching decisions ever made in a football game.
Coaches take points "off" the board all the time. It's called an intentional safety. Granted, the points dont' come off of your total, they get added to your opponents, but it affects the tiebreakers all the same.
If this didn't affect the spread, no one would even be talking about it, so anyone that lost can quit bitching about it. It happened, it was the right call, and even if that is debatable, it wasn't a BAD call by Harbaugh. It worked out exactly as he wanted it to. His team took a snap without incident, and no further injury was risked to his players.
It's gambling. Sometimes the weird plays go your way, sometimes they don't. Get over it.
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Coaches take points "off" the board all the time. It's called an intentional safety. Granted, the points dont' come off of your total, they get added to your opponents, but it affects the tiebreakers all the same.
If this didn't affect the spread, no one would even be talking about it, so anyone that lost can quit bitching about it. It happened, it was the right call, and even if that is debatable, it wasn't a BAD call by Harbaugh. It worked out exactly as he wanted it to. His team took a snap without incident, and no further injury was risked to his players.
It's gambling. Sometimes the weird plays go your way, sometimes they don't. Get over it.
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His logic and reasoning for doing it was so Seattle wouldn't get a chance to win the game. He said nothing about player safety so I don't think that was his concern at the time.
For Seattle to win, they would have to recover a free kick. Then score a touchdown with no timeouts. And this would be against a defense that completely manhandled them the 2nd half. Then recover an onsides kickoff. Then work their way into field goal range with NO timeouts, and kick a 40-50 yard field goal to win the game. All in about 40 seconds. Oregon couldn't even pull that off.
I know man, Like I said it is the only reasoning that has made sense for the argument of taking the safety. I know there is damn near a .000000001 chance it would effect anything. So maybe I was incorrect about the seen stranger things happen statement. But it actually could happen is my point.
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