Divisional Round 2013

[Italian Seafood]

Maybe he was drawn offsides.

[Badger]

Maybe he was drawn offsides.

Maybe Cam called him a SLW.

[Italian Seafood]

If you're going to jump offsides, that's the way to do it. Might as well go all out.

[reuben]

From another angle:



Dude's got ups.

[Johnny English]

Newton went full Brady.

[Italian Seafood]

If he timed that right that would have been a hit for the ages. Half the distance there is worth the risk.

[Badger]

http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2014/01/new_orleans_saints_sean_payton_30.html#incart_maj-story-2

Payton says Colston's lateral was a designed play.

[Heismanberg]

That doesn't make him any less retarded for not going out of bounds. 

[bojanglesman]

That doesn't make him any less retarded for not going out of bounds. 

Any chance he thought the clock already ran out?

[Heismanberg]

Any chance he thought the clock already ran out?

Probable, but that's still on him.  You have to have better awareness than that. 

[Libero_2]

Any chance he thought the clock already ran out?

Thats literally the only explanation I could come up with. He thought that it ran out, so he did the only thing he could do, find a way to keep the play alive.

[Badger]

It's like nobody read the article.

Payton said it "absolutely" was a designed play, putting to bed the possibility that Colston might have lost track of the clock and tried to extend the play on his own when he could've just darted out of bounds, giving the Saints a closer crack at the end zone.

"Listen, Marques, we're at that point, and we're probably maybe a play early from it, but with no timeouts, we'd kind of seen something on tape, Marques has got a pretty good arm," Payton said. "You know, hindsight, a play where he could have caught it, stepped out and then maybe a Hail Mary to the end zone.

"But it was a play we had put in a week and a half ago, prior to this game, which was a deep throw to Marques and then across the field to Cadet. So, yeah, he wasn't freelancing."