This is the part of your post that makes the most sense to me. We drive the field with aggression and than we slow it down and back away. From my point of view the decision to go for it was less of an issue than the sequence of plays that were called once we were in position to score. This happens all the time in football. Teams drive the field with a sense of urgency and develop rhythm and than they relax when they get in position to score and effectively let the D off the hook. Once you get the D on their heels you have to keep punching. That's one thing I give Manning credit for, he doesn't change the tempo inside the opposition?s 10 yard line. It's one of the reasons the Colts are a TD machine not a FG machine. I think that was the more critical mistake by Mangini, the OC and Chad.
