No doubt the gutsiest call of the game last night was made by Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin in the fourth quarter. Nursing just a two-point, 14-12 lead with the ball on their own 34-yard line, he elected to go for it on fourth and a foot after Jaylen Samuels was stopped short on third down.
Miss it, and you give the Los Angeles Rams the ball practically in field goal range, and only trailing by two points. Make it, and you merely extend a drive not even that close to midfield on a night in which you haven’t been moving the ball and have only scored once—a while ago.