Austin Gale

One, and you've been on this for a while now, the only time we have it is when it doesn't work.

The only time we have it is when it doesn't work.

And I think the other piece of it is we evaluate the decision as the 99% reason to discuss things.

Whereas...

There is way more to going forward on fourth down than the decision to go forward on fourth down.

There's also the play call and the execution of the play call.

And I think, yes, when it's a 10-10 game and there's a freaking blizzard in the second half where kicking field goals is going to be very hard, it's easy to have the hindsight analysis of, we should have kicked the field goal when the weather was better.

We were really close.

We'd probably make it.

And guess what?

It would have been a 10-10 game late.

That's easy to say.

Why aren't we talking about fourth and one, play action pass, and there are two unblocked defenders immediately in Jarrett Stidham's lap.

That's the problem.

It's not the problem to go forward on fourth down.

The problem is you ran a play that either, you know, you can't confirm this, either through bad execution or they weren't prepared for the front or whatever it was, two interior defensive linemen were left completely unblocked.

Go back and watch it.

Completely unblocked on the play where they're in Stidham's lap.

There's a receiver coming up and over the middle and there's a receiver kind of curling up

to the right that he could have hit if he wasn't immediately under pressure.