this. ESPECIALLY because the bucs had no more TOs, which means if we could have driven down the field, we could have totally controlled how much time was left if we were in the position to score.
calling that kinda play if they wanted to "milk the clock"... at your own 25 while losing is ridiculous.
1:43 on the clock we had one Time out, they had one. They scored in 1:30 twice in the game a TD.
Pierre Paul stopped him, else he had a easy 10-15 yards from the 25. we used up with the first two plays 30 seconds of the clock. 1:13 and 1 Timeout on our 28 yard line if Pierre Paul doesn't react, we would have had probably 1:10 on our 40-45 yard line, 30 yard to FG 55 yards for the TD.
But then we needed 47 seconds for the next two plays, the 4th down was the problem, cost us nearly 30 seconds.
Than the next play used up another 11 seconds ... to get only to our own 38 yard when we were already at theire 43 (Murray run to it) because of the holding. That holding was a killer, with 15 seconds and only 5-10 yards to get for the FG with the TO ... that was a brutal moment to get that penalty. Without it, we tie for sure.
With one short completition without the penalty we would have called Time out and be in the FG range.
The problem clearly wasn't the first play call.
Oh and the ball drops on the ground with 1 second remaining, so many mistakes by the Zebras there.
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