Originally Posted by
POOLSIDE
In most scenarios, I'm agreeing. But the circumstances here seemed right. Luck can be trusted not to throw the ball away in this situation (again back to that uncalled penalty) and Philly's offense was just starting to click. Indy's defense looked shot already at this point and a first down here completely seals the deal, and maybe even leads to a td. Plus knowing Indy's oc, his running play call is probably a hand off to Richardson. It's not like he's money in the bank, dude already had two fumbles in the game. I totally understand the argument though, but who knows what Philly does there? Down two scores with a little under five minutes left. Well they basically got the ball in that same scenario except only down seven, and guess what they did? Scored twice in that timeframe. Impossible to say what happens if Indy just kicked a fg there, but if the rest of the game goes the same, we're looking at overtime or maybe even a late Philly td because they ran the clock out once they got in fg range. And I don't know that Indy's the favorite if it does go to ot, because again, Philly's offense was finally rolling and Indy's defense was dead.