On Tuesday, the Dallas Cowboys special teams coach spoke about what went wrong on the blocked punt.
Special teams coordinator John “Bones” Fassel explained to the media on Tuesday that the play call was a seven blocks punt return, not a designed attempt to block the punt, but that the Bengals didn’t end up blocking the backside B-gap, allowing Nick Vigil to shoot that gap and get in position to block the punt as he was taught.
“They play call is a very basic, elementary call…” Fassel explained. “We blocked it, the deflection didn’t go in our favor, I don’t know what else to say, Nick Vigil’s technique was perfection.