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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
Smith's defense gave him the ball back in overtime. Field goal wins the game. What happens?
Three and out, San Francisco never possesses the ball again.
Scape goat Kyle Williams all you want, but you can't go three and ****ing out in a sudden death situation.
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Eli Manning actually played worse in that game than Alex. Alex wasn't effective but he was careful. Eli was foolish
Eli threw 2 foolhardy passes straight into the open arms of 49ers DBs on 2 separate plays, either one of those turnovers seals the win for Alex and the 49ers. Now Eli also threw a beautiful pass to tie the game and put us into overtime, so it was a mixed effort. But at the end of the day it was just Eli being foolhardy but also being lucky and getting away with it.
Lets see if I can find the 2 GIFs of the the 2 easy interceptions from Eli our own guys broke up.
Here is the first. #25 has the ball and #38 aggressively runs into him knocking away what should have been interception #1 from Eli. By the way, he knocked #25 out of the game (our best CB) and the later TD pass from Eli was from the lower quality backup who replaced him.
Not a gif but below is a photo of the same safety #38 knocking what should have been the 2nd of Eli's foolish ints away from #22, the cornerback who had the angle on the ball. Again, this 2nd int alone seals the win for the 49ers and the Giants are done.
Eli is a foolhardy gunslinger who needed not 1 but 2 lucky plays where lack of communication between 49ers DBs caused 2 easy interceptions to be dropped. He should have been picked off twice and lost the game handily in regulation.
For all his incompletions, by being more careful with the ball Alex outplayed Eli but Eli was just more lucky on that day.
That is a fact.
Don't even get me started how a too-quick referee whistle deprived the 49ers from an Ahmad Bradshaw fumble that also would have sealed the 49ers win. The ball is out with Bradshaw's knees not down but the idiot refs had already blew the whistle and = not reviewable.
Alex should have gone on to the super bowl, not Eli. But an Eli vs. Brady rematch was a VERY popular outcome so...