How a missed extra point changes things

JohnnyMags said:

Eagles miss 1 point on the miss.
Second TD Pederson goes for 2 (due to the first miss) and misses that making lost points total 2
Last TD they go for 2 again (due to earlier missed points) and fail again bringing missed points to 3
Bottom line the missed extra point led to the Eagles having 3 less points.

I know it didn't matter I'm just sayin

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G-Man! said:

On one of those TD's they had to go for 2 so they would have been up by 7.

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Mosi said:

That is correct, but his point was due to the first missed XP, and then Pederson making a bad decision to chase the missed XP, they had lost 2 points. Had Pederson not chased on the second TD he would not have had to go for 2 near the end to try and go up from 38-33 to 40-33 because it would have already been 39-33 and the XP would have made it a 7 point lead.

The XP miss was unfortunate and unexpected. Although it ended up not making a difference, chasing the XP point miss with a 2 point conversion try early in the game was not smart. And yes, I would say it was not smart whether they converted it or not. It was too early to chase.

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