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On offense we clearly got inside the IU OODA loop. 
Chaney changed the offense and took what was available instead of forcing it. 
The offense got in a rhythm and was executing well. 
The middle of the field was available most of the night, we just didn't utilize it.  The color guy was right, they were rolling up on our top receivers with their safeties.  That forced them to drop an inside LB deep into the zone (not too dissimilar to how the Chief's defense didn't work), which is how Gray was so open on the first two plays
BTW, earlier on the pick 6 that was the exact same play we had ran successfully against MO.  It could have been successful last Thursday but it was a piss poor pass from JG.
With the exception of the 3 running plays on the first TD drive we were doing "unexpected" things that the IU defense wasn't prepared for.
It is interesting that on the winning TD IU was clearly expecting pass even thought there was a LOT of time on the clock, we did not have to pass on every play.
Cheney clearly was "in the zone" with the calls and team was executing.  The pass to Palmer after the OSK was a rare time of both JG and Palmer reading the blitz pre-snap and executing a hot read.  The blitzer was the player over Palmer at the snap and Palmer throttled it back straight into the open area.  Beautifully executed by both.
On the OSK, it was the result of an alignment issue by IU.  EVERY kick they had a similar alignment. We just took advantage of it at a key moment.