Because despite Champs lack of execution the game was over. No time-outs, 40 seconds and you let that happen. When I was watching the game live I thought the ball was intercepted the way Moore was slowly back pedaling towards the ball. Manning still could have won the game in ot which he failed to do but the game never should have been to that point. The Ravens earned their Superbowl, thats one thing I won’t take away from them, they played great after the Broncos game but they got lucky to beat the Broncos.

PEYTON MANNING is your QB.
It’s near midfield, 3rd and 7.
Broncos are winning by more than a field goal.
Ravens have zero timeouts.
Getting a first down allows the Broncos to just run out the clock and win the game.

They run the ball.

/facepalm

GG

The number should be at least north of 50% if not 85-90%. What the hell was he thinking on that play? They should charge Champ Bailey $150 for the cost of a ticket if all he is going to do is sit around and watch the game.

3rd and Inches in the Super Bowl and Flacco audibles to a pass to Boldin and gets the first down.

It’s so inexcusable that you have to wonder what he’s going to do next.

Why do people so seldom mention Champ Bailey when they talk about the goats in that game?
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Thank you for saying it, my friend. Champ Bailey is a media and league darling who has been living off of his reputation for a decade or more. He was abused all day by Torrey Smith, even on plays when Flacco missed him. Bailey has reputation-ed himself to more than one pro bowl in that time, and may well reputation himself into the Hall of Fame someday. He is just lucky in the case of this game that there are more obvious goats from the end of the game like Fox, Morris, and Manning.

My sons in Pop Warner and even at that level the defensive coaches preach nobody gets behind you in man to man coverage. How in the world was Jacoby Jones so open at such a critical time in the game?

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I’m a Varsity defensive coordinator, and preach it at that level constantly. It seems amazing how often kids screw it up. I think the issue is safety is a pretty critical position (especially at the HS level) so we put kids we know can excel there, who may also be able to play linebacker, but still have linebacker “get to the ball fast” instincts. Most safeties are very good tacklers, and very good tacklers want to get to the ball. It’s hard to sit back and watch the action happen sometimes which is why it’s so easy to get burned on a play fake. Doesn’t mean that we give out a free pass for getting beat bad, but helps explain why it happens.

Yet PM had his choice of a lot of coaches, some aggressive ones like Harbaugh and HE CHOSE John Fox. It’s time to stop blaming everyone but PM for every single thing ever. It got old 10 years ago.

Rahim Moore messed up… no doubt. But you have a 20 million dollar QB there and he turned the ball over 3 times, the last one being at a crucial moment. PM gets more blame in my book. If Tony Romo did the exact same thing, he’d be pounded on until the end of time while no one would even know Rahim Moore’s name. If Tony Romo had a playoff run where he had 3 tds and 7 ints, no one would think he had anything to do with their winning the SB either, much less made him the SB MVP without blinking.

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Amen to that. He gave up 2 touchdown catches to Torrey Smith, and would have given up at least two other TDs had Flacco not overthrown Smith. The Ravens were picking on him all game long.

Of course, my team came out as the winner in that game, so I’m not complaining.