re: What people fail to realize is some of the blame

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his is irrelevant.

Yes...while watching the game I said out loud that I'd have run the ball three time for the purpose of forcing them to burn their TO's and run most but not all of the clock.

And yet, despite having the first down incomplete had the third down play been called correctly, they'd have won.

Point is, the cal was not the ONLY reason the Saints lost, but had it been called correctly they most certainly would have won. The second part is the most important thing.

In addition, people sometimes fails to grasp that a football game (or any sport for that matter) is no played in isolation where they can simply go back throughout the game and pick and choose which parts to change while thinking the rest of the game would have played out exactly as it ended up doing. Had the Saints done better earlier, it could very well have meant that McVay was forced to call different, more effective plays and the Rams may have caught up faster and pulled ahead.

The ONLY TIME in a game where you can realistically do that is at the very end when there is no time left for the alternate reality to play out. The only way the Saints lose had the PI been called would have been if the kicker missed the chipshot, or the Rams miraculously scored on the KO or one long Hail Mary play.

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I would of take my chances with less than a minute left that they run the KO back or hit a hail mary every day of the week and twice on sunday