Originally Posted by
El Nino
I'd say it's more, each team gets a possession with an asterisk. Belichek is a strategist. If you score a FG first in OT, the odds aren't that you are going to win overwhelmingly. If he thought he could get a 3 & out or one first down and a stop, then good field possession, a FG ends it. Much harder to score a TD in OT. Busted defensive coverage led to the big play and that was almost all she wrote. The problem was, Fitz was throwing all over the Pats for 3 quarters. The last few possessions, the Jets were basically trying to eat clock and handing it off over and over. That could have lulled the Pats to sleep, thinking their D could make a quick stop on the road.