you sound as surprised/confused/etc as fans and media were when 14 years ago Bill Belichick saw a 17 pt 4th quarter lead dwindle to 6 vs the Colts in Indy and when the Pats faced 4th and 2 on their own 28 he decided to go for it to clinch the win instead of punt and probably force Peyton to go at least 80 maybe more to win with no timeouts. it didn't work and colts won 35-34 after trailing 14-31 in early 4th
but Bill didn't go for it in 2009 on his own 28 up 6 on 4th and 2 because of analytics... he went for it because he was scared of Manning shredding his defense
lions went for it on that 4th and 2 when they had momentum, they were only up 1 because of the gifted def TD and drop leading to one of KC field goals
should've pinned KC back deep but they didn't and got lucky with more drops and a KC penalty
Got Lucky for sure, such poor coaching decisions, thus can't believe they still won straight up.
