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”.
The original point was: the pass rush wasn't the reason the Broncos couldn't advance the ball; if it had been, Peyton would not have been able to clock in a record number of completions.
You can take the position that "he only had a record number of completions because we gave them to him," but that's essentially BS. Given the mauling the wide-outs were receiving in the deep secondary, the Broncos went to the dink-and-dunk game very early; long before they were down five scores. It did not succeed -- not because of the pass rush, and not because of the interceptions -- but because there was no yardage after catch.
Picks are splashy, and turnovers obviously played a huge role. But the play-in-play-out job of fundamental football: understanding assignments, discipline, physicality with receivers, and great tackling are what won the game.