“And this is why you make a deal to get Russell Wilson, in my estimation.” “And they didn’t have to try this desperate field goal,” Buck insisted. “When they finally do call the timeout with one second left on the play clock and while we’re looking into this camera, they switch and they bring their field-goal team on and it was shocking (to) look down and there’s McManus,” Buck said. Hackett had all three timeouts and 63 seconds left when Williams was tackled 5 yards shy of the first down. "And that will be heavily dissected as we move through the week and it won't sit well with Russell Wilson.” Summoning Wilson to the sideline showed “that he trusted McManus' leg more than he trusted Russell Wilson being able to convert there on fourth down,” Aikman argued. Like everybody, we couldn’t quite understand why they were letting so much time come off the clock.” “We were caught off guard with the timeout. Hackett's call left Troy Aikman and Joe Buck stumped in their “Monday Night Football” booth debut. Hackett called timeout with 20 seconds left after letting 43 seconds burn off the clock, then sent McManus out, capping a weekend full of special teams bloopers, bungles and blunders. Hackett decided to take the ball out of his $296 million man's hands and place his trust in a kicker who is now 1 for 8 from 60-plus yards in his career after Brandon McManus hooked a 64-yard attempt that would been the second-longest field goal in NFL history. We just made the decision we wanted to take our shot there on that one.” “Didn’t think we were going to get that many yards, so I thought it was a great job by Javonte. “It put us in that weird spot there because we were in the field-goal range but we were in that fourth-down situation,” Hackett said.
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