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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon
The fact of the Super Bowl is...
Peyton Manning did everything he could do on every possession he got until he threw that pick when they were magically down by 7 despite him playing lights out and making great pass after great pass for the entire game...
They were outcoached...and then they had to play catch up...if that game was tied he wouldn't have had to play hurry up and the pick wouldn't have happened...
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Yeah, like when he missed an open Garcon on the first drive that caused them to settle for 3.
Or when he he almost threw a pick six to Jenkins at mid field on the drive that he ended...with a pick 6.
God knows you have to play hurry up with 6 minutes left, all your timeouts, a 7 point deficit, and a running game that is averaging over 5 yards per carry.
In fact, there's really no other comparison to the kind of stress needed to score in 6 minutes with 4 stoppages of the clock and an efficient running game working for you.
Now, with that said, when you get the ball with 29 seconds left and need to get 50 yards to be in field goal range...that's a perfectly acceptable situation for which to criticize a quarterback.
As long as he's not Peyton Manning.