Here’s the problem. It’s late in the game. The other team who is losing finally just drive the ball down the field on an exausted defense late in the 4th to finally build a little traction. This defense that player well enough to have a lead now is being told “oh we aren’t getting the ball back, you now have to go back out on another offensive possession to stop a play and if you don’t a second offensive drive starts”.
Why? Not because of how the game works. Because a coach decided that’s what he wanted to do