(10-11-2020, 11:40 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Zimmer not kicking FG to go up 8 was a horrible horrible horrible decision. That is Marrone level.

disagree.

You get the first, you can eat up precious clock and either kick the FG if the drive stalls or maybe get lucky and put 6 on the board. If you convert, the biggest win is either eating up clock or forcing the hawks to spend their times out (were they down to 1 at that point? I can't recall). The hawks were moving the ball much better in the second half. I never doubted that Russ was going to be able to move down the field against the Vikes D. The only question mark was the 2-point conversion.

You can say sure, getting to an 8pt lead means that you might force OT. Do you think Seattle wasn't going to continue cruising through that D?

Had they converted, media would be lauding Zimmer for having the stones to go for the throat. Credit where it's due, it was a great stop by the Seattle D, they were getting gashed by the backup RBs, and I don't even think Dalvin would have converted on that run.

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