Ray-Ray McCloud disputes the notion that he muffed a punt in Tremendous Bowl 2024.
Late within the third quarter on Sunday, McCloud, the 49ers’ return man, tried to area a punt from Chiefs punter Taylor Townsend off the bottom.
McCloud, 27, couldn’t fairly snag the ball, it was recovered by the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes hit Marquez Valdes-Scantling for a landing shortly thereafter.
One fan on X blamed McCloud for this second and for the Niners’ Tremendous Bowl loss.
“Brock Purdy is a Tremendous Bowl champion proper now if this punt isn’t muffed and it gained’t get talked about however the chiefs offense was cooked up till they received gifted this,” X consumer @iam_johnw tweeted on Sunday night time.
McCloud noticed the tweet on Monday, and fired again.
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“When you don’t know soccer don’t converse concerning the play! Cuz that’s not a muff goofy boy!” the Niners’ return man wrote.
McCloud does have some extent — replays indicated that the ball had hit the foot of Niners defensive again Darrell Luter Jr.
The sensible implication of this was that it was a stay ball, and McCloud needed to go for it.
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Initially, when it had not been clear that the ball had hit Luter’s foot first, it appeared as if McCloud had been silly for making an attempt to area the punt as an alternative of letting the ball lie.
Whereas Niners followers will surely want that McCloud had fielded it cleanly, he’s appropriate that it was not a muff and there was additionally no psychological mistake on his half on the play.