The only chance they had was to hope the free kick didn't make it to the 40. They could've fair caught and kicked a 77 yd fg off of a tee like a kickoff. So they basically had to hope for a shanked free kick that stayed in bounds.
^ I don't think it warranted it's own topic so I posted it here but I liked Barnwell's take on "momentum". He explained it pretty well. It's something I had thought about but couldn't put enough words together to make a coherent case other than "momentum is bullshit"