You have to take the points there. You have to.
The thing is, we were down by 8. As we saw, even with a touchdown, it's still comes down to a coinflip to decide if we are successful on the 2-point conversion or not. If you're Belichick there, you have to assume that you're going to have to score twice to win.
I mean, suppose they score a TD and complete the 2PC successfully. Then what? It's 20-20. You still need another score to win the game. Best case scenario is basically taking is it to overtime.
The big thing to remember is that, yeah, we stopped Denver time and time again late in the game. However, they had a lead and were running out the clock at that point. If it were 20-20, they would've been much more aggressive.
Awful, awful decision. I understand going for it on 4th down the second time, but when we went for it with like 6 minutes left it was egregiously bad. This isn't hindsight bias. I thought this at the time too.