You must have missed who the MVP was. It was not a cornerback, nor a safety.
Didn’t miss it at all, I voted for him on the NFL website and it’s the first time who I voted for actually won it, his pick 6 functionally won the game. But none of that anything to do with the fact that the Seahawks eased off the pressure in the 3rd quarter and allowed Manning all the short completions he felt like, with no yards after catch. Once you’re up by 5 scores the clock becomes your opponent much more than the other team, so you don’t ball hawk as much, you don’t as many risks, you keep them on short yardage success, you basically say “you can have all the 5 minute scoring drives you can muster, because it won’t help”.