Coaches usually tell players to simply fall on the ball because so many try to run with it before they actually have it. It would have been their ball any way unless K picked up the ball after a block and advanced beyond the LTG.
It was about :45 remaining and he wanted a TD on the play and I guess he wasn't confident a player could possess it and return it. He would have had to go on offense to get a score, then get an onside kick, then go on offense for a 2nd time to tie the game with a FG. Who really knows what the heck he was thinking? He just said keep batting the ball instead of trying to fall on it, then fall on it in the endzone.
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