uhhh; check the clock buddy. The whole point of the argument is that once Dallas called their time out; even if they took a knee on fourth down they would turn the ball over to Dallas and give them 20-30 seconds on the clock to try and throw hail marys. And if you are BB do you really want our fragile secondary (seems like they all break like china dolls every year ) to go out there on 3-4 consecutive 50 yard pass patterns with collisions and jump balls all over the place.
Or is it your thought in your brain trust there that on 4th down they should put wes welker in the backfield and tell him. Wes, just run around out there dont step out of bounds and see if you can burn up 30 seconds on one single down.
..... That would be an even more brilliant way to get someone hurt.
All told once they called the timeout the only way to make sure Dallas threw in the towel was to put up 3 scores - 2 TDs and a FG or 3 TDs on them. That way Dallas would know they had NO HOPE OF getting 3 scores in 30 seconds. Anything less .....and HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL.
Taking a knee would have burned as much time as those 2-3 yard runs. even if they still run 2nd and 3rd the same way, the RB scores with 19 seconds left, so a knee would have roughly left the same amount of time.
DUDE, NO ONE is going to score on a 98 yard play in less than at least 11-12 seconds. Please, go find where a team scored 14 points in 20 seconds, with the first score coming from their own 2 yard line.
Here's a thought. Next time, hike it to Randy in the shot gun. Have his blazing 3.33 speed run the hell down to the other goal line. I bet it would have taken a half hour for anyone on that tired D to go track him down. Game over, problem solved