Their coaches made some pretty crappy call as well. If not for that fumble, Fisch would be getting absolutely grilled today for going for it deep in his own territory. The three things I have struggled with the most are...
1. Cam's slide
2. Cam's fumble. I'm not going to put that on him but it was very reminiscent of the Seahawks/Patriots Superbowl where the coaches got cute instead of giving it to beast mode to secure the win. They were clearly on their heals and TKW would have hammered that it in.
3. Not securing the win when we were up 28-24 late in the fourth and had the ball. We have been so good for a decade plus in that scenario. In fact, I can't think of one time where we failed. That is Bison Time and we own the fourth. Arizona just flat out wanted it more.
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We should have gone for it on the last 3rd and 8. If we make it great and keep pounding them. if we turn over on downs, we could use our 2 remaining TOS to save clock, we could have held them to a FG (hopefully) and then gotten the ball back with a chance to still score a winning touchdown.
Little disappointed on the late 4th down play not getting the call into Cam and running the play. Their inside DL were gassed. We gave them a break to rest.