FWIW, I thought the FG attempt at the end of the half was a way worse decision at the time than the punt at the end of the game. And that was before either play was attempted... not hindsight.

All they needed was a first down at the end, game over.

PM could have easily made that.

This. I just don't understand. You have Peyton Manning, 2 time outs, and 30 seconds, how do you not try to get 50+/- yards and kick the winning FG. Truly a failed head coaching decision there.

Sean Payton and Drew Brees would have been licking their chops with 30 sec and 2 timeouts left.

Trust me, I get that first part.

I still don't fault them for running it though. JMO.

EDIT: Don't know what the stat line was at the time of the play, but here is for the 5+ Quarters on 3rd for the Bronco's. So it is obvious that they would have made the 7 yards. Right?

Third Downs Made 7
Third Down Attempt 16
Third Down Percentage 44

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Moore is directly responsible for the game being tied. Peyton is directly responsible for the game losing interception.


One play led to a tie. One led to the Ravens kicking the winning field goal.

He sure loses a lot of playoff games...

God I'm loving these Herm-loving reeruns coming right out of the closet!!! ROFL

so Peyton wasn't directly responsible for engineering the late 4th quarter TD drive that led to their 7 point lead?

you say you run on 3rd and 7 because odds are in your favor that Flacco won't score...

but then you say Manning is more to blame for an OT pick then Moore is for giving up a 70 yard TD punt (yeah, I said punt) which was arguably the worst defense in NFL history...

you don't think that just MAYBE your hate for Manning is blinding you a bit here?

I thought the overtime pick was AWFUL...I consider it way worse than his pick against the Saints in the Super Bowl given the context of where the game was at the point of each pick...

but you're the same guy condoning a 3rd down run because odds are in your favor the Ravens won't score in that situation...but then you give Moore a free pass on a play that, according to stats, had a 2% chance of working...

Rahim Moore delivered the biggest choke job in NFL history Saturday...there really is no arguing.

You can label this as a Peyton choke if you want because certainly he threw a bad pick in OT...but you can't forget the fact that the game was in OT because of the WORST DEFENSIVE PLAY in the history of the league.

So again, you're dumb.

I mean, there is really only one reason to consider Peyton a bigger choker in this game than Moore...and that's simply because of hatred for Peyton Manning.

MILKMAN considers Peyton the biggest choker ever...

I bet Milkman would agree Moore's choke job was A BILLION TIMES WORSE (THIS GAME) than Peyton Manning...who threw what would have been the game winning TD (albeit on a screen pass but he did engineer that entire drive) had Moore not, once again, delivered the most terrible play in NFL history.

I'm not saying it would have been automatic, but hell it is PM not Matt Cassel.

Why not take a chance throwing instead of running?

I would have thrown it.

Manning isn't the biggest choker of all time that goes to Tony Romo

Yeah, but Romo went undrafted out of Eastern IL

peyton manning's choked so many times in the playoff's I'd probably run the ball too. And he had a chance to win the game in overtime and he threw a super slow motion duck pass to the wrong team..

Plenty of blame for all in Denver. Once in a lifetime series of mistakes adds up to a loss.