That's what I thought as I was watching it, but I thought it was some 5D chess thing that I was too dumb to see. I thought, "they're gonna need two more field goals or another touchdown anyway."
The ONLY thing I can think of is that they were thinking too far ahead and assumed the TD+2 was in the bag and wanted to prevent a FG loss. Even then that's a HUGE assumption.
Yeah, you said it best. It makes ZERO fucking sense.
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