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Absolutely, yes.
When I first saw they were lining up to kick it, not gonna lie, it made me nervous. Butker had already missed a couple (XP and FG). And I know the wind was moving that day, so not 100% on him (although he shouldn't have missed the short XP), but still. I generally trust him to make long kicks, but I was not feeling confident going into that one.
So you have to weigh out the cost to benefit ratio of your decision. Kick the FG, make it, still up two possessions versus kick the FG, miss it, give Dallas great starting field position to drive to get one of their two scores they're gonna need to tie. OR do what the Chiefs did. Pooch it, pin em deep and make them drive the length of the field with only 2 1/2 minutes and no timeouts and then onside kick, recover and score again.
On a different day and different circumstances it might be a different decision, but in THIS scenario and taking into account everything we knew going into it, it was ABSOLUTELY the right call. Good call by Toub and hell of a job by Butker to execute the pooch and Nick and Tommy to get down there to cover it.
Kudos all around!
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