I see your throw and give you the ref tackle
“Well, I didn’t run into the ref,” Garcia told SB Nation. “He literally tackled me.”
“It was a zone-read,” Garcia said, recalling the play. “So the running back was on the lefthand side. We’re in shotgun. I read the defense, and I pulled it. I’m getting ready to run into the end zone, and this frickin’ guy kinda shuffles and lowers his right shoulder right into me.”
“I’m sitting on my butt, and I look at him — and I can’t really tell you what I told him,” Garcia said.
Luckily, Garcia did tell me what he actually said.
“I was like ‘what the **** are you doing?’” Garcia said. “I was like ‘what the ****, this is bullshit! I’m getting ready to run it in!’”
He adds that he remembers one of his teammates having to bring him away from the ref.
"If you look at the play, I think it was Jarriel King, who was our left tackle, and he was like ‘hey G man, calm down, man!’” Garcia said. “I was pretty pissed off because I was getting ready to run it in. There was like a safety or somebody back there that could’ve made the only other tackle, and I probably outweighed him by like 30 pounds, so I wasn’t gonna get stopped on that deal. But this damn — that ref came out of fricking nowhere and fricking drilled me.”"
The football field is a frantic place.
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