After hanging around the back of the pack for the majority of the afternoon, Roush Fenway Racing's Carl Edwards decided to make his charge to the front with less than twenty laps to go. Second in the points going into Sunday's Amp Energy 500 at Talladega, Edwards' strategy was to hang in the back of the pack until the end of the race before making his move towards the front. With fifteen laps to go, Edwards made the push on his teammate Greg Biffle, unfortunately for both, that push came in the middle of the corner causing the second 'Big One' of the day.

Charging down the backstretch on the outside, Edwards hooked up with his Roush Fenway teammate Greg Biffle on the outside going into Turn 3. Trying to put his teammate into the lead, Edwards made contact with Biffle in the middle of three and four, sending Biffle sliding down into teammate Matt Kenseth and triggering a ten-car pile-up.

The second 'Big One' of the day collected a number of Chase drivers, including Edwards, Biffle, Kenseth, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick. The incident started at the top of the running order and took out a number of other good cars including pole-sitter Travis Kvapil, front-runner Juan Pablo Montoya, Dave Blaney, Reed Sorenson and Michael Waltrip.

With a number of laps remaining, it appears Edward picked the wrong time to push the envelope and a number of competitors paid the price.

"I was just pushing Greg as hard as I could. It's my fault and I apologize to everybody caught up in that wreck," Edwards admitted. "We had been pushing each other a lot and it had been going really well. We just got in exactly the wrong spot there going into three and he got real loose and that was just the way it went. It's my fault. I feel bad that I took my teammates out. I know Matt's mad and I'm sure Greg's mad, but you just do the best you can and hope for the best. It just didn't work out today. I was worried about the idiots when you come here and I was the guy that caused that one."

Even though Edwards took the blame for the multi-car crash, Greg Biffle didn't throw his Roush Fenway Racing teammate under the bus. "You can't blame Carl," Biffle explained. "He was trying to help us and he pushed us all the way to the front down the backstretch. We talked about it last night. We talked about it the night before. We talked about it today as far as what we were gonna do and that was our deal - to get teamed up and shove each other all the way to the front. We had been able to push around the corner all day and I don't know if I was moving down or he was moving up, but maybe when he came to push a little bit it just instantly slid. I had my foot in the gas and it just spun the tires and went around and that's all she wrote."

Just two weeks after the Roush Fenway Racing teammates raced hard for the win at Dover, Sunday's incident three of Jack Roush's top cars take each other out.

"I feared the result at Dover that we had here," team owner Jack Roush explained. "Talladega is really a tough race. We've won twice here in 22 years with multiple cars. We don't have much of an average. We had great cars. The engines ran really well. The Ford support was awesome and the engineers did their job. It came right down to the final judgment of people deciding how aggressive they could be and, of course, Carl wound up pushing harder on Greg than he could stand. NASCAR had set that up by allowing people to push all day. All day long people pushed in the corners and pushed in the tri-oval and pushed in the straightaway and pushed all the way around the race track. It was real clear to me and I think it was clear to everybody, including Carl, that if you weren't willing to push the car in front of you, then you couldn't advance as well as somebody else would that was doing the pushing. But he pushed too hard and, of course, the worst possible result occurred. He collected the 28, which was the pole-sitter. He collected Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle and really just predisposed a bad result. David Ragan ran clean all day. If we would have had several of our cars that could have pushed on one another and cooperated, I think we would have had the prospect of winning here, but it seems that on days when you're as good as you might be - as we were in the truck race and as we were here today - it's just awful hard to get the result."

The incident collected fellow Chase driver Kevin Harvick, snapping his nine-race top-10 streak. Harvick was running patiently in the middle of the pack as he simply waited for his chance to make his way towards the front. Unfortunately for Harvick and his RCR team, the driver of the No. 29. Shell/Pennzoil Chevrolet never had that chance.

"It looked like the No. 99 (Carl Edwards) should have drafted all day because obviously he wasn't ready to start racing there until the end and made a mistake and tore up most of the field," a disappointed Harvick said from the infield. "I'm just real proud of my Shell-Pennzoil guys. We spun out there. We weren't going to sit back there and ride all day. That's not what these race fans pay to see. They pay to see us race. It wasn't David Regan's fault or anything when he spun out, we just all got jammed up there just racing really hard. So, it was a lot of fun. I just hate for it to get tore up like that. We'll try to get back out and limp around there."

Harvick was not able to make it back out and was only able to salvage a 20th-place finish. The disappointing result dropped Harvick 136 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson.

Talladega's favorite son, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was also collected in this 'Big One' and ended a more than disappointing weekend. After an engine failure and blown right rear tire on Friday afternoon, Earnhardt Jr. was quick to make his way to the front. The driver of the No. 88 Amp Energy 'Ride With Dale' Chevrolet made his way from 43rd to first in just twenty-six laps. One of the strongest cars in the field, Earnhardt Jr. was caught up in the second 'Big One' of the day and wound up in the 28th-place.

"We were running up front there whenever we could trying to get those fans on their feet because they bought a lot of tickets here. We didn't have the luck today. There wasn't much I could have done to try to avoid that.  I want to thank my team for working really hard this weekend. We tore up an awful lot of stuff and they just worked really, really hard and I want to thank them and I want to thank my sponsors AMP, the National Guard for this weekend and sponsoring the race, they put a lot into it. They're doing it for the fans and for our team. It's a heck of a sport that they have for this program. I'm really thankful for them. It was just tough man. I thought we would have had a better day than that."

With so much at stake, it seems Carl Edwards decided to get a bit too aggressive a bit too early. Hanging around the back of the pack for the majority of the afternoon, Edwards had not really been in the thick of the draft until he decided to make his charge with twenty to go. One wrong push in the corner wound up not only taking himself out of contention, but also two of his Roush Fenway Racing teammates and a number of other Chase contenders - leaving many unhappy drivers.