It was a genius strategy as well as a very legal one, but with that said, the NFL’s Competition Committee probably needs to take a long look at what happened on the final play of Sunday’s game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens.
With 11 seconds remaining in the game and the Ravens leading the Bengals 19-12, Baltimore faced a punting situation on 4th down from their own 23-yard-line. Ahead of lining up for that play, the Ravens punt team was instructed to aggressively hold all Bengals players who should attempt to rush punter Sam Koch so that it would give him time to run off the remaining 11 seconds before ultimately yielding a safety.