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Originally Posted by DRM08
They knew the rules. Shanahan quote on the OT decision:
"We went through all the analytics and talked to those guys. We just thought it would be better (to take the ball first). We wanted the ball third. If both teams matched and scored, we wanted to be the ones who had the chance to go win. Got that field goal, so knew we had to hold them to at least a field goal, and if we did, then we thought it was in our hands after that."
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Makes no sense.
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