By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer
What an ugly game. Six turnovers, a missed extra point and short field goal all in the first half. Where are you Chargers and Saints?
Rex Grossman has been piled on enough, but come on guy, even I couldn’t have predicted such a poor showing. Not one, but two fumbled snaps? Also, how do you throw a wobbly, late-arriving pass to the sideline on first down?
For a dome team, Indy really doesn’t get enough credit for its physical style of play. And what about Bob Sanders? It’s easy to place too much credit for their D’s turnaround on him, but this guy truly is one of the very best DBs in the league already.
With each Joseph Addai catch (10!) or run, I cringed, thinking the world was seeing first hand what he’s capable of next season, and thus, it’s going to take an even earlier pick in fantasy leagues to get him. At least Dominic Rhodes played well also, but Addai is easily going to be a top-10 pick next year.
K-Fed’s was amusing enough, but overall, I thought the commercials weren’t great this year.
What a Super Bowl Ced Benson!
I didn’t do so great with my prop bets, but I nearly nailed the final score (31-17) and did pick the Colts in the preseason to win it all. Then again, I’m pretty sure I picked them to win each of the last three years, so I was bound to be right eventually. While we’re patting myself on the back, I’d like to also point out my nifty 8-3 record against the spread during the playoffs.
Rare that something so predictable (Devin Hester’s TD return) actually ends up happening. And on the first play of the game to boot. And like Ted Ginn before him, his team pretty much got dominated from that point on.
The Colts won, but I hope the media doesn’t even begin to credit it with a turnaround in their run defense; after all, the unit allowed 5.8 yards per carry Sunday. Some day, people will stop equating the ability to run and stop the run with wins and losses. Maybe the team with the worst rush defense in the history of the game going on to win the Super Bowl will have something to do with that.
No one really else to give the MVP to, so the Peyton Manning choice by default was OK by me. Rex Grossman was my second choice, but that probably would have come across as rude.
Tony Dungy’s decision to not kick the field goal at the end of the game literally decided the over/under and made many people love or hate him in the process.
Congratulations Indy.
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