Late game FG attempt

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Originally Posted by Gravedigger

Butker's done it plenty of times in the past for us so it makes sense, but it's one of those if it works then you don't hear about it. 55 yard field goal isn't a lock, especially in an outdoor stadium, but that's every field goal, it'll either go in or it won't. Basing the game and last drive on it was an issue, if it was a miss before half time then it wouldn't have received the same attention.

I believe that if you play for Field Goals, you play to lose the game, especially in this day and age in the NFL. Andy has always been overly conservative and has never truly been relentless, and attacking all the time. When we won the Super Bowl, Andy would always tell Patrick to keep firing. We need that mentality, let Patrick go crazy and take the good with the bad, rather then losing it conservatively in a non-conservative NFL.

Honestly, I think it was very poor situational awareness.

In general this theory makes sense. However the current situation dictated the more aggressive approach. This is not hindsight, you could feel it in the game, live!

Everyone in that stadium and most of us at home knew that even if that FG was good, we were not going to win. Tying that game up with three minutes left to an offense that had moved up and down the field at will would 100% be able to get into FG range and put us away.

The only real shot we had against this particular team in that particular moment was to score a TD, take a little more time off the clock and then hope our D could keep them out of the end zone. Which was possible as we had done it in this game earlier.

Attempting that Field Goal was a death sentence either way. You knew it when it happened.