Defense first so u know what u have to match or beat.

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The only rational explanation was that they wanted to give their defense a breather bc they were gassed.

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Yeah. Even then tho there’s plenty of downtime between end of regulation & start of OT with commercials & coin toss & kickoff. Shanahan said they wanted the ball 3rd. Kinda smart, maybe. But even if they’d scored a TD, Andy said they were fully prepared with a 2-pt conversion to win or lose with so 9ers didn’t touch the ball again.