As I've said in other threads, Future Zach audibles out of that play. Baby Zach went with it and hopefully learned not to do it again.
Couldn't agree more--with all the talk about Zach, Berrios, LaFleur, and Saleh, why didn't they just kick the field goal?
Because the time that would come off the clock with a makeable first down was more valuable when the guy across the field was Brady. Maybe somebody can get a copy of the playbook and see what it says about using the dive option with more than a yard to go; that might end the discussion.
We see teams at the bottom of the league do it all the time. They will go for 2 instead a 1 so they can win on the last play. Go for it on fourth down a lot more, go for a TD instead of a FG. I'm not sure this was the case Sunday, I think they genuinely wanted to win and didn't have faith going into OT.... But there's plenty of evidence that teams go all or nothing more when winning does nothing for them
There was a discussion on here about how the Jets should be trying to out Wilson in certain situations that will help him down the road, winning be damned. This would subscribe to this theory (even though I think I read going for it had the better statistical outcome.)
actually it only took them about a half hour. They addressed this immediately after the game. Surprised you missed it, it was everywhere.