11-24-2015, 09:39 AM
(11-24-2015, 02:21 AM)Beaker Wrote: I say that's a shot you take on 2nd down, not third down in that situation. Bad audible (if he did check out of the run). A first down at that point gets you 3 more shots at a TD and takes time off the clock. If the run fails, you still kick the FG from there (just like with an incompletion) but you run 30 more seconds off the clock.
Exactly. It wasn't a TD/FG either/or proposition. If they get the 1st down they take a timeout and still have their last one with (at most) about 20 yards to go and a minute left. Running the ball there would not have been playing for the FG. They would have had at least 3 more shots to get a TD and possibly more if they gotten a 1st and goal situation. It's disingenuous to say that particular call was going for the kill while running it would have been playing it safe.
