The other issue is that scoring as quickly as possible wasn't ideal there.

Let's pretend Denbrock expected a receiver to be wide open, and that Leonard would hit it. We were only up by 1 point.....we'd have almost certainly kicked the XP and then been up by 8, leaving them the full 5 minutes to aim to tie it.

3-4 more minutes of possession time and a possible F.G. attempt would have been a more valuable result.