It was absolutely silly to take it… it eradicated the chance for a first down plus gave us a long goal to go situation…
Lets say we don’t take it, we run the ball next play… we either get it or not… they take the timeout they used on our next play regardless …
if we don’t get it we run again.. assuming we get the first down and don’t score they take a second timeout… the danger is if we don’t get the first down they get a chance to win it with a field goal … however if we do then we can run the ball three times and leave them seconds with no time outs to kick a field goal back… even if we score the td we make them burn another time out
If it was third down and 2 then fine, take the penalty, but with two shots to convert and with a chance to virtually run the clock out, that penalty should have been turned down