Let's be more honest here.
First, Burley is some guy off the street and he looks to solve our issue with having effective slot corners.
He isn't to blame.
2nd EVERYONE SAW THIS COMING
EVERYONE. If you didn't see it coming, I am sure you did and it was just a mental block. Fish always pulls BS like this and makes idiotic gambles that loses his team important games. In this case, the idiotic gamble worked out because we never bothered to notice he did this to us in almost every game he played us the past few years.
The fake KR should have been a warning, to be offguard for weird trick behavior. I expected this on the 1st punt, the 2nd and every punt thereafter. The truly surprising thing was he went for it when he did but think about it - the Hawks scored the last 3 TDs on the last 3 possessions. Based on how the game was going you KNEW that if Wilson got the ball he would come in and score a TD in under 2 min.
So did the Rams so their coach made a ridiculous gamble that shouldn't have worked save for the braindead job of coaching today (Pete included).
Stop pretending nobody saw this coming. Everyone did because the Rams are well known for these types of chuck and duck type of coaching moves. It was the equivalent of a Hail Mary and us not coming on the field with any CBs.
It was beyond stupid, and the single biggest reason I am not upset about us having the fumble go against us was that we deserved to lose because of such stupidity.