possessions.

Would you care to explain exactly how the flow of the game "wasn't going particularly well" for the offense at that point? And if you wouldn't mind also comparing and contrasting to the "flow of the game" for the defense at that point, that would be fantastic.

Your speculation about him not knowing the rules is incorrect; they have an analytics guy and everything, and it was hashed out before the Super Bowl. But because you know the end result in hindsight, you can point out how dumb someone else is. Because if you'd been faced with fourth and long in field goal range down by 3 points, you would have known to go for it and convert, because reasons.

you are entitled to your opinion, of course.

But if you state claims that are easily disprovable, I am certainly entitled to call you on that. The offense had not been struggling, the defense had.

Can an argument be made that they should have kicked? Sure. But it's not some slam dunk decision that is a given like college OT. At some point the defense had to make a play. They did not. Just like 4 years ago. It happens. But this isn't Brian Kelly calling a pass play/option when all he needs is a field goal to win and he has the best field goal kicker in the country and he's well within his range.