The truth is Mario was told multiple times to “take a knee, the game was mathematically over and GT has no timeouts “.
There’s analysts and other coaches that are paid to keep track of every stat / analytic situation possible to man. Yet Mario said “ run it and tell Don to put two hands on it“. Then Dawson‘s job is to look at the play sheet and call a run. Even worse than the actual call is the reasons Mario gave for not doing so.
It’s nice Dawson is willing to lay on the sword (unlike Mario in the post game presser) but it was 100% on Mario and nobody else. I’m just glad he finally came out and handled it like a boss.