Gatr22 wrote: Gatr22 wrote: Klomgo wrote: Unbelievable!! Kind of what I was thinking. The young guys are playing out of their minds. No more jitters, now it's just a good old fashioned whooping, unless the Pats have a miracle up their sleeves If you're curious, that's what a miracle looks like

All Jesus did was walk on water and turn water into wine - don't recall any mention of a Superbowl win the Gospels

The Falcons should have thrown to Julio Jones on every down. Brady is the ultimate warrior, nothing will change my thoughts on him. Classic tale of two games. Young upstart and talented team shock the veterans for 3 quarters. Crunch time was all about veterans not giving up. By the time they were in extra time, there was nothing that could stop that kind of momentum. It was game over as soon as the Patriots won the toss. Toss up for the catch of the game between Jones (sideline ridiculous catch over arguably perfect blanket coverage and gets the second foot down easily) and Edelman saving a catch 3 times off opponents leg, then opponents hands, then bobbled and saved off the ground by his hands...........in about 3/10 of a second). Very thankful they have slow-mo replay so that the average fan could see how ridiculously easy that impossible catch looked

HomoRomo wrote: Falcons found more painful way to loose than Seahawks 2 years ago, and they can only blame themselves. 2nd & 11, 23 yards from the finish line, 8 points leadership and the clock for 3 minutes left. Stupid decision choose to throw the ball and Ryan was sacked. It should have been 2 nice and easy running games and then kick a field goal. Point difference would be 11 and this way they would win this match.

Just shows that Shanahan is perfect for 49ers

BUT when Tom Brady is playing his teams change constantly and have to work within a salary cap, making all of the team within that amount, also making the players change season to season and not have continuity

When the San Fransisco 49ers played they had the money to just buy anyone and everyone who was at the top of the game and add them to the squad. Drafting Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, John Taylor and then adding any top players they wanted made life way easier for Joe Montana then it did for Tom Brady

Taking nothing away from Both QB's they are like i said the best 1 / 2 combo ever to play so far, then everyone else is fighting for the claim to be 3rd best

And next season the Atlanta Falcons won't be in the Superbowl, they may make the playoffs but that will be as far as they head next season

One more for perfect Ryan:

Passing Statistics SB LI

Completions-Attempts: 17-23
Yards: 284
Touchdowns: 2
Rating: 144.1
Yards/Completion: 12.3

That is why they trust their QB. But sack happened, then holding happened and that is it.

Falcons said they wanted just to go little closer to goal line and with that statistic it is logical to pass. Run probably wouldn't give them extra yards, so it would be over 40 yards FG. With pressure on kicker who know what would happen (just to mention Gostkowski missed extra point earlier in the game and how experienced is he in these kind of games).

So I wouldn't blame OC and HC for pass decision.