[beyond the sea]

OK now I'm going to defend not taking the knee. Yeah sure given the fumble it looks like going for it was the wrong call, but when you look at the math it was the right call. There was 1:20 left in the game and Indy had all their time outs. If the Steelers take 3 knees the Colts call 3 time outs, so then we're at 4th and goal with about 1:14 or so left on the clock (knees and instant time outs don't take much clock), so then we kick the FG and are up by 6 but the Colts will get the ball back around their 20 with 1:00 on the clock. And then you have to ask yourself if the Colts can get a TD in 1 minute from 80 yards away, then think of the Colts first play in their regular season matchup and the answer is a big YES.

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I hear you. You make a great point. I wasn't thinking well. I just let the bizarre fumble cloud my thinking.

God, it would have been nice if THE BUS had just rumbled that ball into the endzone. That fumble was a severe bummer.......... but, thank God for Ben's tackle!

[evets]

Whew!

[discostu]

Whenever there's a turnover late by the leading team the first instinct is "what the hell were they thinking", but sometimes they were right. Sean Salsbury said pretty much the same thing on sports center, at first he thought the play was stupid then he started thinking through the numbers and decided that it was the right call, especially when you remember that was the first time in 2 years the Bus lost a fumble. They always say when the game is tight put the ball in the hands of your best player and let him remind you why he's your best player, and that is the call Cowher made, forget the technical name of that play the real play call was "Jerome, go get us to the AFC Championship".

Gotta love Ben's post game interview on that too. Place no blame on the Bus and took no credit for himself, said it was two 1 in a million shots (Bus fumbling and him making that tackle) that just happened to happen on the same play. Good kid.