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RUSH: Here\u2019s Rich in White Plains in New York. Welcome, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just fine, sir. It\u2019s great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Snerdley says that I should talk about football, and it\u2019s not Open Line Friday. You\u2019re the general. I\u2019m just a foot soldier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to talk about football? Go ahead.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: I wanted to talk about politics. Actually, I had an epiphany while I was listening to you talk about Scott Walker<\/a>. Did you notice that Scott Walker took on the teachers union and he won? He\u2019s doing well in Wisconsin. Christie took on the teachers unions, he won, and he\u2019s doing well in New Jersey. John Kasich, on the other hand, took on every civil servant and got beat. I find that interesting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s that got to do with Colin Kaepernick?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (bitter chuckle) Why did Colin Kaepernick have to go into the end zone? Hey, Rush, how much time was left on the clock when he threw that pass?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna have to take a wild guess, I don\u2019t know, 36 seconds?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Was it that little?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wasn\u2019t long. He didn\u2019t have minutes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, do you think it was enough time? They would have only had a one-point lead, okay, and you would have left yourself open to something.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They had to score a touchdown. They had to go to the end zone. There was no other way. They didn\u2019t have time to kick a field goal, run for an onside kick, and come back down. They had to get to the end zone.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m thinking he could have used the clock a little better with more strategic passes and score with absolutely no time left. But the other controversy in that game —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That play ended the game, if you\u2019ll recall.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there wasn\u2019t a whole lot of time left.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just… I thought there was more time. My recollection was there was more time and that he didn\u2019t have to go into the end zone. That was my recollection.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t remember. I don\u2019t know if it was fourth down. If it was fourth down, they had to go to the end zone. They were close enough I don\u2019t think that… Look, nevertheless, there was so little time. They had to score. It was the only hope they had. There\u2019s no finesse time left, and Kaepernick went with whoever he felt most comfortable with, and he went with what I guess they think is their “hands receiver,” Crabtree. You never know. It could be that they had only thrown at Richard Sherman<\/a>, the cornerback, one time previously. They might have run the risk and figured that Sherman\u2019s head wasn\u2019t in the game. They hadn\u2019t used him, hadn\u2019t thrown at him all day.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, just to expand on my point, there was a time crunch there, I don\u2019t remember the game situation. I don\u2019t know how much time. All I know is — (interruption) Okay, I was right, 40 seconds. That was it. It was third or fourth down. That play ended the game. That interception ended the game. So at 40 seconds, third or fourth down, I think, you know, people said, “Why did he go to Sherman?” Sherman is admittedly the number one cornerback. He set the record for the most interceptions in the NFL I think the last two years consecutively. <\/p>\n

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It could well be that they might have just rolled the dice that Sherman\u2019s head wasn\u2019t in the game. They\u2019d only thrown at him one time in the previous three hours. And on that play he was called for holding. Now, I know it doesn\u2019t make sense after you know Sherman the way you\u2019ve gotta know him. “What do you mean, his head wasn\u2019t in the game?” <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re sitting out there, it\u2019s the last play of the game, and you\u2019re thinking they\u2019re not coming to you because they haven\u2019t come in your direction the whole game. The 49ers could have thought this, is my point. It could have been some of their strategy, “Okay, let\u2019s go to Crabtree because maybe Sherman\u2019s playing off.” Who knows. (interruption) Yeah. Yeah, holding in the end zone would have put it on the one — well, pass interference would have put it on the one. Holding would have been a five-yard or half distance to the goal line, because the game can\u2019t end on a defensive penalty. Maybe they were shooting for that. Who knows. <\/p>\n

But it could well be nothing more complicated than Crabtree is their hands receiver, and Harbaugh said, “I\u2019m gonna go with my best receiver. I don\u2019t care who\u2019s covering him.” Could have been any number of reasons to explain it. Look, it wasn\u2019t a bad call. This the kind of hindsight, “Why go to Crabtree with Sherman –” Well, you didn\u2019t think that during the game. You didn\u2019t even know who Sherman was. (interruption) What? Yeah, I think the NaVorro Bowman fumble recovery, I think where we\u2019re headed on review is that every play is gonna be reviewable. A fumble that does not involve an end line or an out of bounds line, the recovery fumble cannot be reviewed. That\u2019s the current rule. And that fumble did not involve an end line, the touchdown or an out of bounds marker, so it wasn\u2019t reviewable. But I think that was such a blown call. <\/p>\n

But, don\u2019t forget, karma was at work. The football gods were at work, because the Seahawks did not score and, in fact, lost the ball on a turnover three or four plays later. So the NFL is breathing a huge sigh of relief. If the Seahawks had gone and scored after that, that\u2019s all we\u2019d have been hearing. Richard Sherman would be competing with that for the top news item coming out of that championship game, \u2019cause that would have been the refs once again blew something big that resulted in perhaps a team winning on a bad call, and that would have been horrible PR. But that was all wiped out when the Seahawks didn\u2019t score on that bad play, that fumble recovery that wasn\u2019t, \u2019cause they lost the ball themselves four or five plays later or three or four plays or whatever it was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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