For Play of the Week we are going to look at the onside kick that changed the game. This is going to hurt. You can brace yourself now. Take a deep breath.
There was not a single thing on earth Kearse could have done. He was not misaligned. Alabama had been squeezing their kickoff unit to the side all night. Look how much space there is between the widest man to the right and the sideline.
In order to block his man Kearse had to align where he did.