I am reading 'The Winner's Manuel' and in the discussion about 'discipline' JT talks about CK and specifically the game winning TD against Purdue.
Many of us have often wondered where in the hell that play call came from....turns out that play had a deep option..but that was not why the play was called.
I never paid any attention to the rest of the WRs over all these years of seeing that play because the camera stays on CK (probably waiting for him to hand the ball off...everyone was thinking run play) and then cuts down field to Jenkins. Welllll....we were three wide and the other two WRS stayed in the flat just past the first down markers. MJ goes deep to pull a safety out of the box...but instead Purdue blitzed so all the WRs were running in single coverage...but the two in the flat were blanketed. CK's third option is the RB who is supposed to swing out wide as a safety valve..but the back had to pick up a block. The pocket was collapsing...it was looking grim...then Jenkins got a step and threw his hand up to get CK"s attention....CK checked down his progression...then looked out and saw MJ waving his arm...and BOOOOOOM>......Holy Buckeye.
On the sideline JT's reaction was very much like the rest of us...we just needed a first down. So in the book he says his response to CK lofting it deep was "Oh no...no...no..no....YESSSSSSSS!"
He was right there with us in agony as CK went long.
:highfive:
