Michigan QB Flop

[msudawg12]

Michigan qb just ran out of bounds in the michigan st sideline. All Mich st players and coaches held hands up around him. But they had him somewhat surrounded where refs couldnt see. Then he jerks and flops on the ground with no one touching him and draws a 15 yd penalty. UNTOUCHED

https://twitter.com/deadspin/status/916856504078295040

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Looks like he got jerked down!

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

O’korn sucks something awful. I remember Mullen recruiting him a little bit. Glad he didn’t end up here.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Looks like an assistant coach out of frame pulled him down.

The way he's jerked back a bit before falling, I don't know if that's even possible to do to yourself. He may have exaggerated it, but I can't see how he wasn't pulled.

 

[fang]

Physics says he was pulled.

 

[MaroonNation]

Your natural inclination would be to grab the kid to stop him unless you are Ole Miss. OM sideline roughs up our players any time they are driven into it. The fact they all held up their hands indicates this has been an issue before.

 

[paindonthurt_]

Anyone who thinks that guy “flopped” isn’t smart. It would be almost physically impossible for him to have done that himself.

 

[msudawg12]

Look at the gatorade guy before he flops though

Right behind the front coach's butt you can see the gatorade guy has a second gatorade bottle in his other hand. You can see the orange top

So he had gatorade bottles in both hands and couldnt have pulled him

 

[patdog]

Are you kidding? Of course it's possible to do that yourself. It's not even hard. Looked like he faked the whole thing to me. Karma though, Spartans won, so maybe we can slow down the Jim Harbaugh is better than Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden and Nick Saban combined talk for a week or so.

 

[Dogariffic]

If he was not pulled down it was the best acting job of all time.....see how his arms move forward as his body moves back rapidly? He was yanked.
Dumb thing to do!!

 

[WutheringDawg]

100% he was pulled. Watch the lettering on the back of his jersey. You can see it stretch back like someone off screen is tugging on the bottom. There’s also gotta be another camera angle in this era of the watchespn command center, with its all seeing eye in the sky.

 

[FlotownDawg]

His jersey definitely stretches before he flies backwards. Now, I'm sure he wasn't pulled that hard and embellished it a lot. Looks like someone attached a rope to his belt that was attached to a pickup on the other end.

 

[MaroonNation]

If that was a flop then football isn’t his sport. He should play soccer instead with moves like that.

 

[thekimmer]

Nope. He was pulled from behind and rather hard too....

Michigan qb just ran out of bounds in the michigan st sideline. All Mich st players and coaches held hands up around him. But they had him somewhat surrounded where refs couldnt see. Then he jerks and flops on the ground with no one touching him and draws a 15 yd penalty. UNTOUCHED

https://twitter.com/deadspin/status/916856504078295040

Very stupid and bush league thing to do by an assistant coach. Deserves significant suspension and maybe term. No place in sports for such crap.

 

[MaroonNation]

As I said above Ole Miss does this all the time.