Chandler Jones tells AlbertBreer about “Desperado” and the play we’ll never forget, plus much more in this week’s Ten Takeaways
I’m not sure we’ll ever see another game end the way that Patriots-Raiders did.The truth, though, is there was a very real method to what happened at Allegiant Stadium.
By now, you know the result. Jones more or less picked off the lateral, shoved Patriots quarterback Mac Jones to the ground, got to the end zone and the Raiders won, 30–24.Jones was actually following rules in getting to the landmark he did. At the snap, Patriots RB Rhamondre Stevenson took the hand-off on a draw. At the Raiders’ 45, Jones dove at him and tried to punch the ball out. Stevenson burst upfield past him.
Their services wouldn’t be needed. After discarding Mac, Chandler Jones covered the rest, cruising to the end zone to put away the victory.Stephen R. Sylvanie/USA TODAY SportsWe gotta get the ball And that take is born out of a couple years of conversations with Staley about game management. But I’ll let him explain what I’m getting at here.
“We wanted to have the avenue for him to be able to get out of bounds,” Staley says. “We weren’t trying to have something that was an in-breaker there where you’re tackled, there’s time, you gotta clock it, everyone’s got to come back. They’re really, really good inside pass rushers, so it was well-protected with outlets headed to the flat. And their zones just really dropped with a lot of depth there.
That was good for 35 yards. But not good enough to get Williams out of bounds. So Williams had to think fast as the official next to him wound the clock. “We just invested heavily in being good at the end of the games, and as you know, to be good at the end of the games, you have to have a quarterback who can put you on his back. And that’s what we have. Just really proud of our team, because it was everybody today.”
The first came in the second quarter. The Vikings were down 23–0. Michael Pittman was fighting for extra yardage on a third-and-10. He didn’t get it. The ball was wrestled away. Chandon Sullivan collected it and ran it to the end zone. But the officials had already blown the play dead . So rather than it being 23–7, it stayed 23–0. The Colts punted. Three plays later, Kirk Cousins threw a pick-six to make it 30–0.
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