Green Bay Packers tight end Brandon Bostick was only supposed to be blocking during the onside kick that went Seattle’s way in the NFC Championship.
The onside kick that the Seattle Seahawks recovered in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship on Sunday was one of many plays that fell into place at the right time and helped the Seahawks mount a shocking comeback. The kick was recovered by Seattle receiver Chris Matthews after it bounced off Bostick’s helmet as the tight end tried to make a grab for the ball.
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Unfortunately for the Packers, that wasn’t how the play was drawn up, according to a story by Pro Football Talk. Instead, Bostick was only supposed to block on the play and Packers receiver Jordy Nelson was supposed to take advantage and grab the ball. Bostick thought he had the ball in the heat of the moment and instead of blocking, tried to corral the ball himself.
“I felt like I had my hands on the ball and it went through,” Bostick said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “I got hit and I didn’t have the ball. … It wasn’t my job at all. I was supposed to block. I just reacted to the ball and thought I could get it. Obviously, I couldn’t.”
Bostick said afterwards that he felt like he let the team down by not sticking with the plan on that play. He wasn’t the only Packers player feeling like they didn’t make the right plays at the right moments to stop the Seahawks from mounting their ridiculous comeback.
“The game, my teammates, everybody in Green Bay, my family, I feel like I let everybody down,” Bostick said. “I’ll just do my best to try to move on from it. I don’t know how long it’s going to take for me to move on from it, but I’m just going to do my best to move on from it.”
The Packers were finding it difficult, and understandably so, to move on after the game. Several players suggested the best team didn’t win on Sunday. For nearly four quarters, that was a pretty accurate assessment. The Packers moved up and down the field at will early. At one point, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson had more completions to the Packers defensive backs than his own receivers. The Seahawks offense made an early exit from the field on their first two possessions, turning it over in the air, then on the ground during a kick return.
It’s easy to see why the Packers fully expected to win that game. By the fourth quarter, nearly everyone watching was probably thinking the same thing.
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