Let's take a look at a little bit of this playoff game that Matty Ice gets blasted for.. I want you to pay attention and count how many clean shots the Falcons have where they have Rodgers dead to rights, and they whiff... come up with nothing but air...
Even when they did manage to sack him, the play was nullified due to piss poor technique by the secondary resulting in holding/pass interferrence calls..
Pay attention to the missed tackles by Atlanta, and receivers that understand how to get open. Pay attention to how even when Green Bay's receivers are covered (James Jones for example) they still make plays on the football and come down with it...
All in all, it was one of the worst defensive performances in the playoffs by any team recently..... and got 48 points hung on 'em as a result...
[video=youtube;s-qBJPGxw6E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-qBJPGxw6E[/video]
great observation
I want you to pay attention to the interception that gets charged to Matt Ryan on the throw around the 2:18 mark... All that scrub Michael Jenkins has to do is keep his feet under him, and that's either a touchdown (if he can make a play on the football like James Jones did for Rodgers) or an incompletion.. That's why they got rid of Jenkins and traded all those picks for Julio Jones. I gurantee you Julio comes down with that ball 6 out of 10 times. They need somebody that can perform while Roddy White is getting bracketed...
The other interception is just a combination of a bad decision, bad playcall, bad execution... and excellent film study by the Packers. I can show you worse interceptions in the playoffs by Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger in the Super Bowl..
If you can pin this playoff loss on the quarterback fo the Falcons, you might as well not even bother watching Miami as long as Chad Henne is the quarterback and Sparano is the head coach...