You trust your defense to stop Tom Brady from engineering a touchdown drive with just under a minute to go and a timeout in hand.
And you would take the first option every time?
I 'm sorry--I should have said I would take the first option every time.
Good Analysis on the 5 seconds or so left. I figured about 20, at the time. Might have been off.
I think that the decision is Belicheck saying "I trust Tom Brady to make a big play more than my defense". I guess what I'm debating is *his decision*, not Bradshaw's decision to score. IMHO, if I'm Bradshaw, and it's the 4th quarter, and my team is losing, and I have a chance to score..... then I put the ball in the end zone, every single time. Nothing to debate. Otherwise, the Giants are one botched snap away from "What the hell was Bradshaw thinking, not scoring the TD when he had the chance?"
Man, this is going to be rehashed a million times between now and August. LOL!!