Jack Del Rio Rewarded for Cojones With Mass Memes And Twitter Love

Jack Del Rio is easily Twitter’s favorite football coach right now. The Oakland Raiders head man is being lauded as a genius after he decided to play for a win and not a tie against the New Orleans Saints in Week 1.

With just 47 seconds left in the contest, the Raiders scored a touchdown to cut the Saints’ lead to 34-33. Instead of kicking an extra point and playing for overtime, Del Rio chose to attempt a two-point conversion and go for the win. It turned out to be a brilliant move:

Twitter immediately fell in love with Del Rio for going against conventional wisdom and showing some serious guts.

Jack del Rio walking into the press conference like http://pic.twitter.com/9hXNFphUzD

— Juice LeRoy (@koopa_kinte) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio gets the Coaching Call of the Year Award for going for 2 down 1. Carr hit Crabtree for a 1 pt lead. NO kicker missed from 61

— Rick Kamla (@NBATVRick) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio takes Dennis Allen’s job, then his soul.

— Gregg Rosenthal (@greggrosenthal) September 11, 2016

Congrats to the #Raiders.

Here is Jack Del Rio's coaching philosophy:#NFLSunday http://pic.twitter.com/MpigbibhmA

— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio must need special pants for those cajones.

— Vance Meek (@vancemeek) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio headed straight from the Superdome to the high limit tables at Harrah's New Orleans

— Joe Reedy (@joereedy) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio is Spanish for “brass balls."

— Bart Hubbuch (@BartHubbuch) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio right now… http://pic.twitter.com/KvISiQGdAc

— BigHeadSports (@BigHeadSports) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio just exposed his testicles on television.

— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) September 11, 2016

Jack Del Rio has some balls on him

— Michael Silver (@MikeSilver) September 11, 2016

And they got it! Wow. Guts from Jack Del Rio.

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) September 11, 2016

Amazing. Jack Del Rio is my hero.

— Paolo Uggetti (@PaoloUggetti) September 11, 2016

I take back most of the things I said about you Jack Del Rio…

— Stewart Blake (@stewblake) September 11, 2016

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