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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 635918" data-attributes="member: 7261">For those of us who watched it on TV,  every replay of that Punt and Erickson's signal showed him doing the same thing that most returners do when they are telling their guys they are going to let it hit and to get away (like an Umpires safe call, hands outstretched, below the waist (not waving) but saying "get away from the ball".  Many times the ball bounces right, as it did Saturday and the returner catches it and returns it.  Never seen a penalty called for doing that,  Even the announcers could not figure out how and why anyone interpreted that call the way the refs did.Oh well......just knocked us down one bowl game. Stave.  Has/Had the physical tools to be a pretty decent QB, but for some reason lacking the mental game.  I still blame him for the ASU game when the refs didn't spot the ball fast enough to allow another play.  Who taught the Badgers how to spike the ball when killing the clock??  Have seen it on a number of occasions (and in the ASU game) where Stave takes the snap and just makes a motion like he is spiking the ball, but doesn't.  That confuses the refs and in the ASU game, the defense.  Spike the ball hard and make it bounce.</blockquote>

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