Or if they'd made a cheap field goal in the second. Or if they'd overcome Walker's fondness for pooch kicks. But they were having a good enough time that they didn't mind staying late. This was not about emotions or complacency. This was simply a matter of the team that played better winning.
Doubters are welcome to examine the numbers.
It also produced two turnovers while committing none of its own and scored with humiliating ease the last four times it had the ball. Obviously we're going to have to correct our mistakes and get better as a football team. One thing about our kids that I've never questioned is how hard they play and their heart. They'll bounce back, but we have to clean up an awful lot. That's really two things, but you cling to certainties at times like this.