Do you agree with the fake field-goal punt call?
 

Chiefs were up 10 with 2:45 left on the clock. Cowboys had no timeouts. It would have been a 52-yard field goal attempt. Obviously, the execution was great, but do you agree with the call?

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I was fine with it

Yes and anyone who doesn’t should kill themselves

I was actually shocked they were going to try a FG. So yeah, I thought it was a great call.

I loved it. I actually turned to the Cowboys fan behind me right before they lined up and called the pooch kick.

What really impressed the hell out of me was the execution level by Butker, Allegretti AND Townsend to get down there and cover it.

It was a perfect play call given the scoreboard, Dallas's relatively anemic offense and their lack of TOs. Once that ball was touched down, the game was over. Dallas wasn't driving 95 yards to score a TD then recovering an onside kick.

Obviously it worked out great but I thought it was a good call with the way the defense was playing.

Definitely the right call. Pinning them deep in that situation worked better for us than the FG, and this was the perfect way to do it.

It seemed nice at the time

I thought it was another fake at first. I guess it was a fake FG, but I mean to try to get a 1st down.

I dunno if you could tell on the broadcast, but the wind was an absolute menace yesterday. It was a steady 15-20 and swirling.

I was fine with it either way. Up 10 with under 3 minutes and them with no time outs. If he misses they have a short field. Pin them back the best you can was the right call.

Wind was blowing towards the east endzone from above the stadium and towards the west end zone from the tops of the uprights. The flags above the stadium were screaming in one direction while the streamers on the uprights were going the other.

It was bizarre.

This is such a rare play that I can't say that I supported it or opposed it beforehand. When was the last time we saw a fake field goal with a pooch punt? I think Cassel did it once out of a third-down formation, but I can't even remember it being run out of a field goal formation.

If you had asked me ahead of time, I probably would have said to go for the field goal since we have Butker, the greatest kicker of all time. But as O.City alluded, if the wind was a factor maybe Butker was concerned and I'd trust his judgment.

Fantastic execution, though.

I'm curious about the play, though. It starts up and Allegretti bursts downfield like a racing ox. Townsend swings out and then downfield.

Five seconds later you see Winchester, who was the long snapper, and then Gray shows up pretty much after the play is dead. So first off, why wasn't Gray hustling downfield? It looks like he fell on the initial block but then just stood there for a while afterwards.

And Blake Bell is the wide guy on the other side next to Allegretti. Why did Bell not hustle downfield? I get that you have to make an initial screen to keep the kick from being blocked, but if the ball is pooched it seems like you'd want guys hustling down as soon as it's kicked. The only two who do so are Allegretti and Townsend. Is that by design?

Yep. At that point scoring more points doesn't get you much better chance to win the game compared to the risk of missing it. We know buttkicker is good from that distance but Dallas had no timeouts and with how hard it is to get onside kicks these days that was a great call. I did NOT want them to go for it and I always want them to go for it. That is good situational football.

You miss the FG you don't get points and they get a short field

You get the FG you get points...

Split the difference, no points and long field