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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terre Haute Cheesehead" data-source="post: 526281" data-attributes="member: 3410">No doubt about it.  I'm not a gambler, but caught up in the momentum of our drive to the red zone, though, I would have to be lying if I said I wasn't teeterering (or should say wondereing if MM would roll the dice) on the decision to go for the winning TD, however, I was relieved when MC trotted out on the field and had to agree with MM's logic to put the three up on the board and "cautiously" trust the D to hold them out of the end zone, just conceding the tying field goal at worst, which is "luckily" what occured after that dropped TD pass.  Whew....that was close! Despite how bad Minny's D may have looked and "running on fumes" or not, red zone defenses defending the goal line are a whole different "animal" than the one we carved up on the drive down the field that led to the leading FG.  A run stopping QB sacking big playmaker like Jared Allen leading that goal line defense and with all the bad luck we have had lately?  My worst nightmare would have been to see a fumble scooped up or a tipped pass and ran back for a TD. At the end of the day, MM made the obvious correct decision and we were very very fortunate to have had the game end in a "tie" instead of a loss.</blockquote>

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