there was nothing wrong with the playcall imo. If it's not there, you throw it away and go to OT. Hill was greedy and got caught slippin'
There is something wrong with the play-call. Multiple things. Here's the problem with the play-call:
1. Schotty motioned Cunningham out of the back-field...Chargers are expecting run, use a play-action or at least make them respect your ability to run by having Cunningham back there
2. Schotty ran two of our three WRs over the middle on the play...most dangerous area in the red-zone...should have isolated Bailey or Britt on Shareece Wright who had been beaten all day and thrown a fade...that's a low risk play
3. The Rams didn't run the ball when the Chargers were going to have to use timeouts inside the 5
Hill clearly made an unbelievably dumb decision to not throw it away but Schotty's play-call was not a good one. He tried to get fancy and out-smarted himself.
Frankly, I don't know what the hell Hill was thinking. We've run that play many times and the point of that play isn't to throw to Britt. Britt is a decoy. Bradford has run it and the point of the play is for Cunningham to draw coverage with motion and slip Givens(used to be Pettis) into the back of the end-zone with no coverage. If they do cover Givens, it usually leaves Cunningham isolated on a LB and you let him work back inside on the pivot route.
The crossing route is not the route you should be looking at. It's simply there to hold the attention of multiple defenders so the WR in the back of the end-zone is freed up.