Hawkboi":6i99u3yy said:
I knew it was over when we didn't take a timeout with 3 timeouts remaining and 48 seconds on the clock to end the 1st Half.... I thought somehow we knew we were defeated and threw the towel in at that time... I totally disagreed with not at least trying to move the ball down the field for at a Field Goal... Right then I thought something is real wrong...
I never considered it over given some of our past comebacks, but I really hated that call.
Against a weaker offense, were we winning, or were we getting the ball to start the 2nd half I'd understand it. But given how hard it was to stop Atlanta's offense, every possession was important. I assume Pete was worried about Atlanta getting the ball back and scoring again, but given they were already ahead and would get another possession to start the 2nd half, it was no time to play conservative.