As usual, strong tight end Nick Boyle was the game’s primary blocker. He remembers the actual play call: dice right Y Casper 12 slope.

Boyle was the “Casper” part of the action, meaning the movement he would make across the formation before executing a kick-out block. Dunlap was unblocked as a “reading” defender, and he misread by diving inside, so Boyle’s target was Pratt.

“Sometimes G-Ro (Greg Roman) didn’t want me to throw cut (blocks), but I was like, ‘Shit, I’m just going to try to cut the hell out of this guy. That’s me. I’m just going to try and cut him in half.’

“So I ran over there, I didn’t catch him, but I moved him far enough to the left. I threw my cut and I look up and it looks like it’s going to hit me. Whenever Lamar had that ball, he could do anything, whether you missed your block or not 12, 15 yards.’ And then I just remember looking at him or the jumbotron and seeing him do that spin move and just keep going and we scored.”

Boyle didn’t recall having an overreaction. Above all, he was happy that they capped another drive with a rushing touchdown – not believing that he was just witnessing something magical.

“A lot of people look at that and I think that was obviously one of his best runs of his career. That iconic spin move that really tipped the scales. But I mean, with the ball in Lamar’s hands, he could have done it.” “I’ll blow something like that any time,” Boyle said.

“We experience this moment at every training session. Even with a walkthrough, he does something crazy. Seeing him do it, it was like, ‘Oh crap, is he really good like that?’ Yes, but I think all our players don’t expect that, but we are used to seeing things like that. It’s like, ‘Oh, Lamar’s back.'”