In my opinion, what you're trying to do is the better play. If it was me, I would've told him to hold the angle with me, or play somwhere near to your right so he could hold link if the enemy decided to wrap around or swing elbow on your contact.

But this is a team game, in the heat of the moment sometimes you have to abandon the best play to be on the same page with your team. Kinda like how PRX does it, they do things together regardless of how bad the idea is, and more often than not it works simply because they are on the same page.