Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton analyzes his choices during overtime in the team's 30-24 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Two days of hindsight and film review later, Broncos coach Sean Payton on Monday acknowledged he’s revisited his own critical decision at the end of regulation in Saturday’s overtime loss to Cincinnati.since the game ended in a 30-24 Bengals victory . “You go through it all the time relative to what the call would have been. Based on the outcome, you always second-guess and you always do that as a head coach.
Another element of the overtime decision: The Broncos and Cincinnati had very different stakes in the game. Denver could have clinched a playoff spot with a win or a tie, while the Bengals had to win to keep their postseason hopes alive. Payton mentioned the possibility of a tie in his decision-making process after the game Saturday night. A pair of overtime timeouts he called, though, ended up elongating overtime rather than shortening it toward a potential tie. After the Bengals punted to begin the extra session, it switched to sudden death. Any score ends the game. In Cincinnati’s second possession, they moved to the edge of scoring range at Denver’s 36-yard line with a 14-yard completion to tight end Mike Gesicki. Payton took a timeout with 4:15 left.false started on the next snap but then caught a 19-yard slant followed by an 8-yard Khalil Herbert run down to the Broncos’ 14. Payton took another timeout with 3:32 to go. “Listen, you have them. Part of it is just calming things down,” he said Monday. “Once you’re in that part of the game you know it’s sudden death. So partly just to give our guys a break.” Cincinnati lost a yard on one more snap and then sent Cade York on for a 33-yard field goal attemp
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