They pretty much did play for OT by calling the draw play. Very little chance of something going catastrophically wrong and a slim chance of a facemask or something to give them a shot at the win. The play call was fine.They should have played for OT. That is on the coaching staff. The play itself is on the players.
What Jakobi did had zero point zero upside and humongous risk. It was incomprehensively bad on his part. Even if Mac caught it that play was completely dead in the water there.
I coach should need to tell their players, look, in a tie game with an immobile QB when we are just running a safe draw there, if you somehow get the chance, please don’t church it 20 yards backward to your immobile QB.
You don’t need to coach them on that because such a thing would never ever ever ever happen at the professional level.
Until of course……..