Defending Kyle Williams

by Jason Kong on January 23, 2012

The NFC Championship game was unbelievably exciting this year. The teams played hard and the score was close. If you’re a football fan, it’s games like these that makes the sport worth watching.

We all know what happened. In overtime, the Niners’ Kyle Williams fumbled deep in San Francisco territory and New York recovered. The Giants won with a short field goal shortly thereafter.

Williams is the easy target for the loss. He already had a muffed punt earlier in the game led to another Giants’ score. If he just hadn’t made one of his two major mistakes, the 49ers would have won. That’s the story we tell ourselves.

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