Not true, he got the first down by allot, he should have slid at that point, but as someone else correctly pointed out, Elijah felt he could have scored and that was what he was trying to do. It was 2 & 9, he got well over 9 yards, if he gets down right away after the first down the game is over at that point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkdUl5f8y8
Go to the 13:32 mark of the above video, you can clearly see all he had to do was slide down and get touched and he would have been fine. He made a mistake, that is okay it did not cost his team. In the future I am sure he was told get down young man.
For how close he was to the sideline they sure seemed to go out of their way to say he made a mistake. Im not convinced. I havent seen an RB slide that close to the sideline. He was stepping on the hash lines. When someone slides one leg bends and one arm falls back, either could have still touched sideline even with a slide.
Instead of trying to say he did something wrong, too bad announcers didnt spend their time talking about this day: (how many times has a p5 qb that lost to the Cajuns taken an NFL team to conf final?)
. . . going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say the extra yards may have been more of an asset than the extra time . . . besides like the previous poster points out . . . He is awefully close to the sideline from far before the line to gain to assume one with pressure that close can go down without brushing the out of bounds line. . .
2 that I know of. And one of them did not make it to the NFL.
. . . no running back would cut back inbounds nor would one be allowed to under those circumstances . . . let it go . . .
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