The Raiders still could have kneeled if they wanted to avoid the possibility of a blocked field goal being returned for a touchdown, but at that point, the chances of a miss being returned for a score are off the table. A yarder is probably just risky enough for the Raiders to forgo the chances of avoiding the Chiefs and Titans to start the postseason.
A yarder is well within Carlson's range, as you saw from the final play. Over the past five years, kickers have hit Reduce that to a yarder, which is where the Raiders would have been if Jacobs had narrowly picked up a first down, and the chances of converting the field goal jump to A yarder gets the Raiders up to The Chargers definitely wanted to keep Jacobs from gaining even the 4 yards for the first down.
If you want to blame the timeout for getting the Raiders into a better run play, that's fair. I'm also going to suggest that the Chargers could just as easily have given up a significant gain without the timeout, as we saw the Raiders pick up 23 yards on a third-and draw out of shotgun earlier in the game. Stopping them in the backfield for no gain or a loss is really valuable for the Chargers.
I suspect Staley thought his chances of keeping the Raiders from picking up the first down in short yardage were better with Joseph on the field than Murray, which was also supported by what happened earlier in the game, when the Chargers took Murray off the field and inserted Joseph and stopped the Raiders twice in short yardage near the goal line.
Taking Murray out against 11 personnel and using motion forced Samuel to become part of the run fit by matching up against tight end Foster Moreau ; Jacobs was able to stretch Samuel before turning upfield for one of the most important plays of his career.
The Chargers didn't give up 10 yards because the Raiders were suddenly upset; they gave up 10 yards because they're a terrible run defense and the Raiders out-executed them on the biggest snap of the season.
We'll never know whether things would have turned out differently without the timeout, but given how much Murray struggled during this game and has struggled since the Chargers took him in the first round in , I don't think his presence on the field would have saved Los Angeles' season.
I also don't think the timeout changed Vegas' interest or motivation in trying to get into field goal range whatsoever. The Raiders would have accepted a tie if a field goal didn't make sense after third down, but they were almost definitely going to try a field goal if it was feasible on fourth down, timeout or no timeout. You can disagree with Staley's aggressiveness on fourth downs in this game or throughout the season, but there's a logic and often data underpinning his decisions.
There would be no reason for the Chargers to try to get the ball back in this game, and Staley's lack of interest in stopping the clock until the game was inside 40 seconds makes it clear that doing so wasn't a priority. The conspiracy theory is more fun than the reality. If you spin the coachspeak and playerspeak one way, trust your eyes without skepticism in assuming that the Raiders were giving up on first and second down, and subscribe to the idea that Staley's decision-making is too aggressive for his own good, you're probably going to come out of that season-ending tilt thinking that the Chargers cost themselves a playoff berth with a horrific timeout.
If the Chargers had come up with a stop for no gain or a short loss on third down, the Raiders very well might have let the clock run out and called it a day, much to the chagrin of Steelers fans. Taking a closer look, though, what happened at the end of this game is reasonable and hardly controversial. The Raiders wanted to win given their playoff seeding possibilities, but they wanted to not lose more than anything. They got in a position in which it would have been virtually impossible to lose and then slowed things down to ensure that they would be the only team with a chance to win.
The Chargers' only motivation was to avoid losing. When the game came down to one play, the Raiders overwhelmed the league's worst run defense to set up a season-ending field goal.
The Chargers didn't lose because they poked the bear with a too-cute timeout. They lost because they got overpowered by a more physical team with their season on the line.
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