Everyone knows I like CTR and all, but that final drive is very curious. We had held them to drives of 5 plays and 4 plays in their previous two possessions, but in between we had possessions of 3 plays and 4 plays ourselves.
With 2:30 on the clock and them with the ball at their own 8 yard line, I feel like the plan was to force them to beat us with 5 yard gains. And it seems like the plan was mostly working. Had we made more tackles at first contact, it would've worked. I'm not even sure the blown 4th and 10 was the issue, as I'm not convinced that the chop block call was correct. I could be wrong on that though.
Bottom line is that if we had just one TD in the 2nd half, the game would've been out of reach for them. We were controlling the field position battle. Starting field positions in our last four drives were: 19, 40, 27 and 45. Only one of those times did we manage to push the ball across the field.