(December 11, 2015 at 12:44 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I didn't see the play, but I'm assuming there's pretty much time to just run the one play.
You do that when the playcaller deems that your team's chances are better for scoring and winning the game *now* rather than in overtime, or you have zero confidence in your kicker.
Vast majority of the time you kick the FG, but there are edge cases where you don't.
The clock was stopped at 13 seconds, and they had no timeouts, on the 31 yard line, so whatever happens they had to either throw an incomplete pass, or get the catch to a receiver who can then either easily score a touchdown or get out of bounds in time to stop the clock for the field goal attempt.
I dunno, it just seemed way too risky to me when I was watching the game, and then low and behold Bridgewater holds onto the ball for too long and gets sacked, which would have been enough to doom the Vikings, but he also fumbles the ball and the Cardinals recover.
Play is here: http://uproxx.com/sports/2015/12/teddy-b...cardinals/
