Was the Weird Play That Launched Cal's Win a Smart Play?

The play was so odd that Bears quarterback Fernando Mendoza was credited with a touchdown receiving even though he finished the day with no receptions

It was a bad play. It was a great play. It was an intelligent decision. It was a silly decision. It was a pivotal play that led to a win. It was a potentially demoralizing play that could have led to a loss. It was a lucky decision by the officials. It was a poor decision by the officials. It was a statistical impossibility that created a stat line that makes no sense.

But was it a smart play to lateral the ball, considering the negative effects a fumble in a risky ad-lib move could have caused? "OK, we didn't plan that," he conceded before pausing a long time to fornulate an answer. "Here's the deal: We don't coach that. Football players need to play football, and from time to time those things happen. I could go into story after story after story about a guy making a decision to make a play, and in those moments you got to be right, the player's got to be right.

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