re: Guess what just happened...

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Play sound familiar. FU Auburn officials

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As horrible as that call was, and it was fricking horrible...the fact that play even happened was JaMarcus' fault. Hear me out...

I am on record here as being one of the biggest Russell fans around. This is NOT a bash Russell thread or post. Even the best players make bad reads and throws. But after that whole non-call controversey erupted, a series of photos came out that were taken from behind Russell by an LSU fan. I don;t have them any longer unfortunately. But in those shots, you can see Early WIDE arse OPEN heading into the EZ but unfortunatelt Russell shortarmed the ball and underthrew it. In the photos you could see it because he reacted as if he knew he had thrown a bad ball. And you can also tell that after the ball left JaMarcus' hand Early needed to change his route back across the field rather than continuing to head to the EZ. Had Russell simply lead Early deep there was no one over him and he'd have scored easily.

Instead, it happens to get thrown into coverage and we all know what happened after that.

If anyone remembers those photos or has them I'd love to see them again.