Can anybody tell me why?

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(10-07-2024, 01:50 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Playing for a 53 yard FG in overtime isn't the sort of thing you expect when your QB has 5 TDs and a 137 rating and your top WR has nearly 200 yards on the day.  Burrow passing there isn't a guaranteed victory I'll admit, but how anyone could be worried about keeping the ball in his hands in that situation is beyond me. And kickers are making long ass FGs now and McPherson is one of the best BUT still...playing for a 53 yard FG try in OT is the sort of thing you do when your QB is crap or having a shaky day and you are trying to just drag his corpse across the finish line.

Of course, I'm now remembering that the Ravens had the ball first and fumbled so it makes a bit more sense to play for a FG but 53 yards?  Ehh, that's borderline but I will admit it's not as stupid as I thought when I started typing this.

I was at that new Beetlejuice movie with the wife during all this and I was checking my phone and seeing the Bengals that close in OT after the Ravens had the ball I figured it'd be a 95% Bengals victory and about a 5% chance of him missing and it being a tie.  When I checked my phone a bit later and saw the expected score of 41-38 with the Ravens on top I had to wonder what the hell happened. 

Burrow threw an INT late in the 4th quarter that could have potentially been a 3-7 point difference.
Bengals were in FG range when the INT was thrown.
They could have either ended up getting a TD to ice the game or forced the Ravens to go the entire length of the field to score a TD vs just needing a FG to tie it up.

Had Burrow not thrown that INT, the Bengals may not have ended up in OT or Taylor may have felt more confident with Burrow throwing the ball in OT after the turnover.