Alex Kirshner

In particular, with a minute left, they are facing a fourth and one at the 21-yard line.

I'll be honest with you.

I didn't mind that they kicked it.

I know you do.

That's because you're not up on the Illinois State kicker situation.

I had never seen someone so unblocked in a situation like that.

It's a weird thing for the player trying to block the kick too, to beat it by that much.

Exactly.

Right.

I wonder almost like, is it like you just try to tackle the snapper, but you can't do that.

You have to actually block the kick for it to be a change of, I guess on fourth down, it doesn't matter.

This would have been a 38-yard kick.

He probably wasn't going to make it, even if the operation was clean.

Which it wasn't.

And it wasn't.

This is also their backup kicker who took the job during the playoffs.

He was a transfer in from the bench after the starter was 10 of 17 on field goals over the course of the season.

Yeah.

And anyway, so they do that, and then this game... So they lose the opportunity to bleed the clock.

They basically should lose the game...