2013 NFL Playoffs/Super Bowl
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bingo. these teams were pretty evenly matched to begin with. so it was going to be about who made the most mistakes and who takes advantage of their opportunities. ravens did a better job overall in both categories.
there were calls missed against the 49ers as well. when #29 for the ravens wasn't ejected for shoving a ref, it was clear they were going to be lenient and let them play.
congrats to ravens fans. no question in my mind the ravens played a better game last night and deserved the win.
Let me start off by saying that I rooted for the Ravens. I wanted them to win. SF is classless thugs and babies IMO as evidenced by the coach not interviewing to CBS afterwards. But no one thought the defender in the lane who was positioned to make the tackle was being held infront and in the back by two raven players as Jones ran by him for the return TD? My god they had him turned sideways with his back to Jones even after he was 5 yards past. I havent rewatched it but everytime they replayed it I rolled my eyes. They throw so many flags on returns in the regular season and that didnt get one?????
whether we think its right or wrong the refs handle post season games differently. once or twice last night i felt they were too lenient.
Which makes more sense. Football is supposed to be a Sunday AFTERNOON game. 12:30 PM is perfect for us on the west coast for our lunch time BBQs
#29 was punching a Niners player in that play while the player was on the ground. He should've been gone.
Niners lost the game in that awful first half. They didn't deserve to win, yet they made it a game in the second half.
Two of the strangest plays of the game for me: The Ravens running the field goal fake on 4th and 9 with only an 11 point lead early in the game, and the safety at the end involving the punter going out of bounds. I understand why they ran that last play but I've never seen a safety like that before.
that last play was brilliant. the fake field goal was low risk but i would've taken the 3 points instead. in a game of that magnitude you need all the points you can get. if a field goal would have been the difference and they lose, oh boy....
I think both plays were correct for the situation. A FG from that range was not a gimme, and worst case, the fake will turn over the ball inside the 49er's 10 yard line.
Before the Ravens' timeout I looked at the score and saw that 5 point margin and the short time, and said to myself "Take the safety!". It looked to me like the 49er's didn't plan for the Ravens to take a safety, even after the timeout. I fault the 49er's for not going all out to get to the punter to conserve time. They could have downed the punter and saved enough time for a "Hail Mary" after the kickoff.
The brilliant part of the intentional safety was the blatant holding. Even if holding was called, a penalty in the end zone results in a safety anyway, and no time would have been put back on the clock.
Now it's a Prime Time event. It's all about the advertising revenue and the ratings.
