Field position. We had two timeouts and roughly 2 minutes of game clock. Let’s say they had the ball around the 25 hypothetically.
They’d get the ball with about 110 seconds to play. 3 straight runs is likely 20 seconds of play clock. That’s down to 90 seconds. You can’t stop it on one of those and the play clock 40 seconds.
That’s 50 seconds. You have a punt play and probably get it back with 40 seconds left to play.
In that scenario, you’ll probably get the ball back around your own 30-40 and have 40 seconds left to get into FG range.
Your odds of doing that are better than your odds of executing an onside kick