Indeedy, it would have been nice to know.
Thing is, we don't even know how thew arc of that series would have played out. Had VT thought they had to go 2 yards instead of one, they would have probably called a different play.
But it sure was nice (for VT) to have to go only one yard instead of two. In the way the universe works, any change produces a ripple that has untold ramifications...
en.wikipedia.org
In
chaos theory, the
butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on
initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a
deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.