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Originally Posted by popanot
If there's any doubt, which judging by Kubiak's presser comments "we knew Moats fumbled, but assumed he was out of bounds" there was, you still get up to the line quickly and a run a play. Most teams would have done that (I bet the Colts would have) instead of lolly-gagging around or worrying about leaving Peyton too much time. Sure hindsight is wonderful, but someone should have been smart enough to recognize the possibility of a fumble there (Moats, Schaub, the coaches on the field or booth...) and taken appropriate measures to ensure we kept possession of the ball. That one play might have lost us the game.
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Agreed. You have the ball on the 2 freakin' yard line. You cannot leave a questionable call up to the refs if you have the ability to control your own destiny. And I agree that Manning would have definitely ran a play, as I've seen him do it numerous times after close calls. That's what good teams do. Winning and losing in the NFL is regularly decided by these sorts of things and we need to get better at getting them right.
I mean, what this boils down to was we were willing to trade potentially turning the ball over on the 2 yardline so we could run 5 extra seconds off the clock. That's a terrible tradeoff.