[More Cowbell]

The coaches apparently have a list they go by, where it says to go for two in that situation. And it was the wrong decision. As others have said, the reason to try to make it a 6 point lead was so that if the Seahawks got a TD, they would have a chance to block the extra point and keep it tied. The problem is, the odds of that happening are almost zero. I know it happened to the Bengals last year, but very rarely does an NFL kicker actually miss an extra point or have it blocked.

On the other hand, say they kicked the point and gave themselves a 5 point lead. Then, when the Seahawks scored a TD, they would've been up 1 and would have then gone for two themselves to try to get to a 3 point lead. But two point conversions have a low success rate, meaning there would've been a good chance the Bengals would've gotten the ball back only down 1, and a FG could've won it.

Although Holt's fumble made it all moot, it was still a bad decision by the coaching staff, plain and simple.