But was he right? I'm not as sure as you are.
Should he coach the end part of the game by looking at the statistics for the whole game (basically the first half) like you've done here? Isn't that the mistake that he was supposed to have learned about?
It seems to me that if it's late in the game and the D is leaking like a sieve, and it was, having just given up two easy touchdowns, that we're going to need to score some more points.
I realise this is 20-20 hindsight but wouldn't it have been better for O'Shea to say, Paul, their offense is on fire. Our lead has dwindled to six points. No way can we give them the ball back or we're going to lose this thing. We've made this mistake before, no way are we going to let it happen again. We need to keep the ball, burn the clock, and it'd be best if we could score some points, okay? Paul, I need your best play calls here.
Then, and only then, if we try our best on offense to move the ball and they stop us, do we punt the ball back to them and hope we can hold on.
It seems to me that the worst thing to do is to lamely run into Montreal's stacked box and give them the ball back, which is what they're desperately hoping you'll do since their offense is on fire and has just scored 2 effortless touchdowns.
Sorry, but this doesn't sound like good judgment by O'Shea to me.