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Do I punt and force Mahomes to go 39 yards in 13 plays, where maybe my defense, which has been playing really well, might stuff them deep in their own end, or get a INT, or recover a fumble, but worse case scenario I make them try to win it off the foot of the kicker, instead of Mahomes hands and feet? From over half a field away?
Or do I go for it and not make it, and give that same Mahomes and crew the ball on my own 30 yard line? A Mahomes-led team that scores TDs from that distance at an historic clip, like around 80% of the time?
I mean, yeah, it's easy to say in hindsight, "well it's Mahomes, you have to go for it," but it took Mahomes and crew 13 plays to cover 39 yards. And then they got stopped.
Lynn's decision forced the Chiefs to put it on Buttker's foot from 58 yards away. And if I were a coach I'd take that over giving Mahomes the ball on my own front porch any day of the week.
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