He wasn’t going to get in, but maybe the 3-yard line. But he was also something like 1-10 in the red zone in the game. I still stand by LaFleur’s decision from that yard line as it would have set them up to win with the fewest necessary things going their way. Scenarios: -kick FG, nearly 3 minutes to hold Patriots, then drive and score -Go for TD and don’t get it, then you have 3 minutes to get a stop (albeit deep in their territory), drive for TD, go to OT, win coin toss, score a TD (or potentially give then chance to win) -go for TD, get it. Now stop them with under 3 minutes, win coin toss, drive down and get TD in OT You said 3 minutes three different times; however there was not 3 minutes left, there was 2:02 left. Huge difference. In fact we were very fortunate that they were tackled quickly on the kickoff and not able to burn another 2 seconds off the clock or part of the entire strategy of kicking the FG would have been totally moot. It was not a particularly well thought out kickoff given the scenario.