You lose a lot of options when you can't punt well. Joe won many, many games by staying with the run even when it wasn't working particularly well, because if he was winning the field position battle, he knew that he had a great chance to win in the end.
You don't get to make this choice if you are playing the game at your end of the field.
You don't get to make this choice if you are playing the game at your end of the field.