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Originally Posted by Pizza
Why would you even do that when 6 points was a yard away and you have 3 downs to do it?
it's way riskier to have the game balance on a field goal attempt when your kicker has missed all 3 FG attempts. You also give the Sask Returner a chance to run it back to your own end and score a TD
Huff made the right choice going for the TD
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Scoring on 2nd down would have been great. The Stamps scoring on first down gives the Riders the best chance of winning though, leaving the most important thing to them at that point - time. There were 32 seconds on the clock that they had to play with - certainly not impossible. A 10 yard FG is about a 99% likelihood of being good, especially when even a miss (single point almost certain) will win the game for the Stamps. Even if it's blocked, anything but it returned all the way gives the Stamps a 50% chance to win in
OT.
The chances of Sask marching down to score a TD to tie in the last 32 seconds is probably above 10%.