Snake Eyes
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Those decisions resulted in a win. I am firmly of the viewpoint that the coaches of this team without question have more information about the opponent, their own players, the matchups, etc to make that decision better than I do, and if we had the same amount of data, they would also be better equipped to make the right decision with it.
So, I get that a bunch of people like to Monday morning QB and say their way is better, but when they win the game, there is not a single thing they could have done differently that would have produced a better result. Their job is to win the game, not to win it in any specific way, and their job is that the multiitude of interrelated decisions that they make add up to a win. No more, no less.
You can feel free to think that you know better. It is in fact true that with less knowledge and data, you could still guess your way to a better decision sometimes (broken clock is right twice a day) but even if you made 100% correct decisions on everything related to this game, we still can only win once.
As far as running the ball at the end, if they threw an incomplete pass, they would have lost the game. It was absolutely the right decision, and of course, it worked.
How did it "work" when the crucial play was a blocked FG, which is not only very rare but happened on the other side of the ball? The fact that they won isn't proof of a good decision, and if your criteria is based on how well they achieved the objective I don't know how it can be considered anything other than a fail: they gave the ball back to the opposition with plenty of time.
Also, why would they have lost with 1 incomplete pass? They still have other downs to work with and if they converted a 1st everything would have been fine.
The fact is that when teams try to run those obvious running formations they usually fail, any military expert will tell you that the 'element of surprise' is probably THE most crucial element, and when you broadcast your intention like that you make it a lot easier to stop, which is why teams routinely stuff the run in those situations.