It's a freak thing to have a kick bounce around and remain in the field of play that far to the side anyway. It can be called an exploit, but it's not like this kind of thing happens every week.

The refs knew exactly what to call in the situation, so it's not like nobody knows about it.

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It is what it is, a rule.
And there was no manipulation, there was the good sense of our guy to use it to our advantage.
That's just plain SMART.

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