The Chiefs were up 21-3 at that point and went into the half with that score. That’s not to say the call was anywhere near as significant in the grand scheme of the game as the Tuck Rule Snow Job was to the Raiders. How is his forward progress stopped on this play? BY THE HIT THAT KNOCKED THE BALL OUT. Not even if you REALLY want to convince yourself otherwise. Regardless of your allegiances, there is no way you can see anything other than a sack and forced fumble on this play. All those things had to happen for Coleman to alter the course of history.Īnd Coleman seemed pretty pleased with himself to have played a part.GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY DERRICK JOHNSON KILLED MARIOTA #Chiefs /3H8VlfkrL8- Clay Wendler January 6, 2018 The ball never seemed to get high enough off the ground to carry the distance. New England’s Larry Izzo recovered.įinally, Adam Vinatieri had to kick a 45-yard field goal through the driving snow. The Raiders’ Travian Smith forced a Brown fumble. Woodson and Brady said they forgot about it as well.
Troy Brown returned the punt 27 yards and then something happened that I’d completely forgotten. Kennedy wanted to go for it on fourth-and-1, but Gruden, as conservative then as he was in his second tenure, decided to punt. Crockett was their short-yardage specialist and automatic in those situations. On third-and-1 with 1:43 to go near midfield, Zack Crockett was stuffed by Bruschi and Ty Law for no gain. Second, the Raiders had every opportunity to win that game before Coleman took over. First, the Tuck Rule was not only a bad rule, but it wasn’t applicable on the basis of overwhelming evidence and the Raiders got screwed. Having attended the game, I’ve always thought two things were equally true. The Tuck Rule was the starting point, but didn’t necessarily alter their respective paths. The Raiders were an older, descending team that managed one big year in 2002 after Jon Gruden was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Bledsoe had come off the bench when Brady was injured in the AFC Championship Game in Pittsburgh and won the game. He’s not a Hall of Famer without Green Bay and then his return as an older, wiser and more healthy Woodson.Īs for Brady, it was pretty clear what Belichick thought of him when he was named the starter in the Super Bowl that season against the Rams. OK, two things - with Woodson’s history of injury at the time and the way his salary had gone up from two franchise tags, I don’t think he was destined to be a Raider much longer. New England’s Tom Brady (12) loses the ball after he’s hit by the Raiders’ Charles Woodson in 2002. AP Photo “With two Super Bowls I think I’m a Raider for life,” Woodson said.īrady played into the drama by suggesting if the Tuck Rule hadn’t happened, he would have gone into the following season as the backup to Drew Bledsoe. The subsequent destiny of the two franchises is examined, and near the end of the show over a game of pool, Brady asks Woodson if he would have remained a Raider had they gone on and won the Super Bowl that season and again the following year. None had even heard of the “Tuck Rule” except Belichick, who called it “much ado about nothing.” The rule was stricken from the record books in 2013 by a 29-1 vote of ownership.Īll the players interviewed thought it was a fumble and the game was over. There was plenty of hair-splitting on what the “Tuck Rule” actually meant, if it was enforced correctly and if there was enough evidence to overturn the original ruling of fumble. The mutual respect between the two is evident throughout. The back and forth between Woodson and Brady was entertaining and fun, even with Woodson’s palpable disgust with the call and Brady doing his best to defense the indefensible. In all, it was a great hour of television, sure to infuriate the Raiders and their fan base and delight those who follow the Patriots. While there have been plenty of stories and an earlier ESPN production on the play, this was the first one that involved Coleman after the fact. “It was an incomplete pass when it happened and it’s an incomplete pass 20 years later.” “It was an incomplete pass,” Coleman said. can’t do any better than this.”Ĭoleman dismisses any thought he made a mistake in reversing the original call of a fumble forced by Woodson on a blitz which was recovered by Greg Biekert. There was a film clip of Belichick seeing Coleman on the field in a subsequent game and telling one of his assistants, “Walt Coleman.
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