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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
He dialed up a very similar blitz on a 3rd and 15 late against the Chargers. The only difference was that Herbert felt the heat and overthrew his man by about 10 yards. That worked to perfection, though, kept the Chargers out of FG range and they never saw the ball again.
I still hate the call in that moment, we had timeouts and plenty of time for Patrick to take the lead with 6 or tie it up with a field goal, but that aggression paid off very recently. Unfortunately, it seemed like Burrow and Chase could be made of different mettle than Herbert/Allen. I was super impressed watching Burrow throughout that game.
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I don't disagree with you - it's not what I'd have done. I'd give up the FG and play the boundaries to take even the risk of a TD off the board.
As you noted - we have PM. And in a 4 down situation w/ 3 timeouts I still think he's damn near unstoppable in a gotta have it drive.
But I do think that was the logic behind it and it wasn't
entirely unreasonable.