Ravens v. Niners Super Bowl Thread

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Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

What I'm saying is that would have been the ravens with the ball instead of the 49ers and the 49ers would have had the ball with around 2 mins to go, like the ravens.

and when i say "neither really stopped the other" that isn't a definitive statement, obviously some stops were made, but it felt like when either team had the ball in the 2nd half, they were going to score be it a TD or a FG. And we can also question that non call in the endzone on crabtree as a ''stop''. I don't think it should have been called, but if that were the redskins on the 49ers end, I can't say I wouldn't be pissed. It reminded me of the ohio st miami national championship game, where they did call it.

But the point is, that it's a pretty far leap to go from the coin toss, to the 49ers winning because:

1) had the 49ers won the toss, they may have elected to receive. I don't know their history on that.

2) as I said, there was no reason for the 49ers to give another possession back to the Ravens, if they had chosen to run it, they would have taken most of the clock away. Surely if the tables were turned, and the Ravens got the ball with 330 left, and all their timeouts left they would have a - forced the 49ers to use up their timeouts (they only had two), and b- possibly sealed it with 1 or 2 1st downs, never giving the ball back to the 49ers.

3) The 49ers were truly in their best case scenario once they were down so far, which is have a chance to win the game with 4 tries at the 7 yd line. They couldnt do it. The Ravens redzone defense was real in the playoffs, the patriots were 1 of 6, SF missed a few other times down their as well. It's the SB you have to win in the redzone. The Ravens did, all night long.