the playcalling late in the game cost us. As others have mentioned, why didn't we keep running the ball late in the game? The only thing that was stopping our run was our own holding penalties. We're 1st and 10, drop back to pass...sacked, but negated on a (sketchy and lucky) illegal contact penalty. So instead of running it next time, we drop back to pass and Bo runs it out of bounds for a 4 yard loss...he was too nervous to even throw the ball away because it was so slippery. Once you're 2nd and 14 your hands are tied on the plays you can run and predictably it was 2 incompletions to essentially end it.
Refs missed the helmet-to-helmet at the end of the game, but I doubt it would have helped. After this game and our last cold weather game (The Western final last year) I am not too confident in our ability to hold onto the ball when the mercury dips.
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