Again, the 28 point lead in the 3rd quarter absolves all of this. I don't care who's dead, who's alive, who's injured, who took a sack, etc. the bottom line is that when you have a lead like that it should NEVER have to come down to these plays. Reid is ultimately responsible for this and I really don't see how they recover from this. What's lost in all of this is how bad Indy's D is and how average Pagano is as a head coach. This team is terribly overrated, Luck notwithstanding.
I had Chiefs ML, but I feel worse for those who had Indy -1.5. The worst reverse bad beat ever.
They don't ask how you won, only IF you won, and, as bad as blowing the 28 point lead was, that doesn't matter if Smith hits a wide open receiver running down the sideline, that puts them up 10 with not much time left. When, instead, he blew it and they had to settle for a field goal, it had "One point Indy win" written all over it. Same thing, on a smaller scale, with taking a sack, in effect, while already in field goal range, with under a minute left, which led to 3rd and 11 and then 4th and 11. Reid's taking a time out after coming OUT of a time out was just the icing on the cake, at that point they were so tight you couldn't pull a pin outta their asses with a tractor, and you knew they weren't gonna convert it. Somewhere in Green Bay, Harbaugh is smiling, though he'd better make sure the smile doesn't freeze on his face. Re: Reid, they'd probably be smiling in Philly, too, if they hadn't just suffered their OWN excruciating loss...
I agree with you on every Reid point and the natural tendency of players who are in the midst of choking away a monstrous lead to get tight, but...how much do you want Alex Smith to do? 99.9% of people on this forum would have run to bet KC if we were told before kickoff that the Chiefs would score 44. How many times can you ask him to win the game?
