They went against the percentages actually.I wouldn't be necessarily call it desperate just that they played the percentages and it didnt work out. But I understand what you mean and on a certain level they definitely were desperate about the OL.
And I think this is also the biggest valid point of criticism of BB and McD everyone seems to be missing. That they apparently severly overestimated how well the OL would perform while gameplanning which left us scrambling and trying to fix it on the go for the majority of the game.
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