(On the fact that the 'two-point conversion chart' says to go for it in that situation) - "Made sense, go for two, that's exactly right. That's the problem; it's just that you have a million scenarios. You could find five other cards, five other cards, I hate this. I remember watching this movie Armageddon once, and they said 'you can't use your 'blow the bomb up' card in this situation.' There are five different cards, you might get five different answers, you really might. In my mind as I'm going through this thing, one of the things I'm thinking is 'I honestly,' - and this is not being negative here - I just didn't know how many more at-bats that team was going to get, okay? You could tell me eight-and-a-half minutes, I'll admit it, I don't know. The way the game was going, and with where we were offensively in this football game, I had no idea how many more at-bats that team was going to get. In my mind, we were down there, we just finished a good drive, we had some momentum, and we had a good play, and a good situation and we were at a good number. When you look at some of those things, the touchdown, the two-point play, the field goal, those kind of plays, you look at those things, the hardest things to execute, to get, are really the touchdowns and the two-pointers sometimes. So with where we were in the game and 11 [point lead], they had to execute a field goal, a two-point play, and a touchdown. Now as it turned out, the Monday morning quarterbacks are all looking to say 'well, geez, that's the way it was kind of headed.' It's true, but we weren't planning on a 50-something yard pass play and any of those scenarios that happened either during the course of this thing. So, that's why."
(On a 12-point and 13-point lead both being two touchdown situations) - "Well yeah, but one brings into the 'at-bat' things, and that's all I'm saying, is that one brings into a touchdown, a field goal, and a field goal can get you, you know what I mean? I'm trying to put some of that out of the way, because I don't know how many at-bats they're going to get, I really don't, [shoot], they scored."
Sounds like a lot of words spoken to avoid saying "I messed up." If we ended up losing the game he would have gotten reamed over this one.
(On a 12-point and 13-point lead both being two touchdown situations) - "Well yeah, but one brings into the 'at-bat' things, and that's all I'm saying, is that one brings into a touchdown, a field goal, and a field goal can get you, you know what I mean? I'm trying to put some of that out of the way, because I don't know how many at-bats they're going to get, I really don't, [shoot], they scored."
Sounds like a lot of words spoken to avoid saying "I messed up." If we ended up losing the game he would have gotten reamed over this one.
