And that right there is why you ALWAYS kick-off in OT when you’re facing a bad offense.
If you receive, and then you have to punt, all it takes is 1 penalty for the opponents bad offense to be in field goal range.
Whereas if you kick-off, you make the bad offense drive 75 yards to win. More likely than not, the bad offense will make a mistake at least once in that drive and you get the ball punted to you, only needing a FG to win.
McDermott and Daboll make the same mistake.