Superbowl, SuperBroncos! (Page 5)

The officiating was embarrassing...both sides.  It's supposed to be the best of the best come playoffs but last night was just pathetic!  Great teams will over come bad calls so I'm not making excuses.

Weird game all around.  Champ looked like a chump.  They didn't activate Mcgahee and Moreno gets hurt.  Had Fox not been so confident going into this game he would have activated Mcgahee.  Also, Thomas, the go to guy.  Pretty much not a factor.  Manning just kept dropping short passes.  Pratter drags his foot and misses a give me field goal. I'm a huge Bronco fan but they had their opportunities and did not come through. A game like that I can't help but look at coaching and getting the team prepared. I didn't even finish watching the game.  I knew when it went to OT they were going to lose.  Left with my son to watch the Mammoth and found out when on the lightrail that they had lost.  A lot of quite people on the lightrail. 

More like a dead duck.

Great comeback, they just couldn't put the dirty birds away.

Sadly, the hot water pipe in my house froze solid so I only got to half watch the game while trying to crawl around with a heat gun. 

Tough loss, I think if this game had been at 4 est instead of 1, we would have won. We've had some issues all season with our 4th quarter prevent a win defense. More importantly though, Russell Wilson showed what he's capable of. I read on a few sites, Lynch might have sprained his foot last week, which would explain his ineffectiveness. 

I don't think Atlanta can beat San Francisco.

Edit: We were very sloppy the first half. Particularly the last drive before halftime. That should have been a FG attempt or at least another play instead of running out the clock. We defintely missed Clemons too. He's much better in the run game than Irvin and our run defense has been suspect this year already, losing him was huge. 

I'm still bummed. The officiating was horrible. Flat out interference on Decker for 7 points. There were others that did go our way that were suspect too. Lots of bad calls... but even with that, we still had plenty of chances to put that game away and the whole team did not get it done. Prater puts us up by two scores before half... no, miss a chip shot and then Flaco lights us up for AGAIN for 7. 10 point swing, and we kneel down before the half with 36 seconds and Peyton Manning.... don't even take a shot. Lots of chances to put it away. Again, got to give it to the Ravens... it wasn't the refs, and we didn't give it away.. they earned it. Still rooting for the Pats.

And ya... I thought we were getting McGahee back too. Moreno has been good... but he got injured. hillman is a great compliment, but does not have the mass to be your go to guy. Loosing Moreno really hurt... and obviously loosing Porter for the rest of the season hurt too.

I thought the play calling was aweful.  Whether it was Peyton changing at the line or coming from the coaches, it showed no confidence in our passing game (which was superb this year).  I thought the refs stunk, but they didn't cost us the game.  As for Hillman, we'll see, he showed some good signs, but rarely does a rookie running back "Get It" his first year.  Hopefully this leads to a similar scenario to what happened after the Jags defeat during a 13-3 year.

Not the first time I heard this

Really, if all your races and training all season were early afternoon, and suddenly you have to race at 9 or 10 am, and be at the race site by 5 am, you wouldn't be your best either.

Sure, they are professional, etc. and the Pats always have late games, and the schedule was set months ago, but it's almost like the NFL wanted the Hawks to lose.  Could have been like Saturday - afternoon game and Sunday night game on the East coast.

The 49ers get a 3 pm eastern game @ ATL and the all east coast game is at 6:30 Sunday...  And it's supposed to stay unseasonably warm in Southern Mass

I don't know what happened there.  My iphone went all haywire when I tried to type something...

To respond to the time of day playing.  I would say that I think that's picking nits.  These guys are paid an excessive amount of money to play a game.  They should adjust their clocks to play at their best.  It's not like they were told the day before they had to play early.  The East Coast teams don't get games moved earlier when they go west.

I'm a Charger's fan so I've heard the same line from my fellow fans and I just don't buy it.   

We've had 14 coaches since the team started in the '40s and 6 coaches since 1999.

I went to A&M and when we hired Sumlin I had low expectations.  Here's hoping the Browns follow what the Aggies did.  I would liek to stop referrign to them as the Clowns.

Hey Saints fans, do any of you still have those paper bags?  Can I borrow one?

Howie long said it best after the game. One team woke up at 4am and was on the field at 7am. The other team woke up at 7am and was on the field at 10am. 

We still had a chance though, the terrible game management in the first half was our undoing. 

I'd say Pats vs Falcons.

The 49ers would win in SF or outside anywhere, but in a dome, I like the Falcons.  If they can hold onto a lead that is.  I blinked and they gave-up 13 points...

I don't think Atlanta can stop SF. They struggled against our offense and the 49ers have a much better offense IMO. Also, we were missing a few DL who make a big impact on our run defense and SF isn't going to let Atlanta run like we did. We also had no pass rush whatsoever, another thing SF has. 

I predict SF wins easily, Baltimore upsets NE because it's Ray Lewis' retirement party and Flacco is somehow much better in the playoffs. SF wins the super bowl after that, as much as it pains to me say.

I had this awful nightmare that the Broncos gave away a game to Baltimore with defensive, offensive, and play calling mistakes.  When do they play for real?

They seemed "off" the whole game but I will look past even all of that (like Baily looking like an old man, some questionable calls, and a pick and fumble AND one of the best defenses giving up 38)

But HOW does a safety give up that last play?  Are you kidding?  Then you have MANNING with 30 seconds or so AND 2 timeouts and you don't even TRY to get move the ball 50 yards and wait for OT?  Then a 3 and 13 with Baltimore on their 3 and you give up 20 and THEN you force them to punt which puts you on your own 5?  Just sickening.