The options are many.
Is your team an offense driven team or defensive?
Which was on the field last, and how did it go.
If my offense had just tied it up and their defense seemed to not have the answers, no way I'd defer.
But if it had been tied, and I had an excellent defense that had stopped the other side throughout the fourth quarter? Maybe, especially if the other team had just had a drive stopped to end regulation. Keep the tired offense that just stalled on the field.
Another thought is that pro athletes should be conditioned well enough to handle a few more minutes of play. So what would actually matter is what that period of time and being stopped did to them mentally.
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