DrunkOffPunch
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I mean, we were down by 35 points when we got the ball in the second half. If we wanted any chance of getting back into the game we had to score and score fast so passing makes sense. Throw in the fact you lose Tommy your running game takes a big step back. We didn't have the speed to get to the edge and we didn't have the horses up front to open lanes for the RBs. You can either pack it up and try to bleed some clock by running more to stop the bleeding, or pass to try to get back into it knowing if you don't move the ball you're sending out a tired defense that's getting clobbered. It's a lose-lose situation and those stats didn't matter as the game was far out of reach by that point.