Why didn’t George Kittle take a knee? Kyle Shanahan didn’t tell him to

The touchdown is nice. Especially when Brock Purdy scored one two downs earlier with a near 50-yard scramble. Unfortunately that touchdown got nullified thanks to a holding call on none other than Kittle. Had Kittle taken a knee, the anxiety of the game possibly getting snatched from the 49ers would be nothing. The Cardinals had no timeouts, and the clock was well below the two-minute warning. A knee on the 1-yard line and the 49ers can run the clock out leading to the game ending 29-27, 49ers. Instead, we got this:

Now look, no one is disputing the awesomeness of the touchdown itself, especially with the background behind it. That said, why not take a knee? Kittle had just the perfect opening to even go out of bounds. Stops the clock, but at least the 49ers can still tick the thing down, and the Cardinals can never take the field again.

"Probably should have gone out of bounds," Kittle told reporters after the game. "We could have just kneeled it out. But no one told me to, so that's their fault, not mine."