Saints Win Super Bowl

Well, that's nice.

I wouldn't say this was a great game, strictly from the play on the field, but it had its moments. The Saints defense managed to hold their ground just often enough, and they forced one of those turnovers they're so good at getting. They seemed to adjust on offense after the first quarter. Brees seemed to more readily find the underneath receiver, since the Colts were doing their best to prevent any deep throws. Except a team can have a pretty decent offense just throwing short passes on target and letting big receivers run with it.

The Colts ran it better than I expected, maybe better than New Orleans expected as well. I'm a little curious about the playcalling by Indy on that last drive, once they were inside the 10. OK, so pass interference pushes them back on 1st down, they get some of it back on 2nd, then they try a run. I know they'd had success running inside in the game, but it isn't their strength, and if they fail, they either have to burn their second time out, or run a quick 4th down play, which is the option they chose. Perhaps they thought by calling the play quickly the Saints would be confused. I could see that being the reason. The run still surprises me.

I wonder how this performance will effect Peyton Manning's image. There was at least one fellow (Ross Tucker) who said that if Peyton won, he'd would consider him the best QB of the last 30 years, and there were some similar sentiments elsewhere that when it came strictly to passing, Peyton was as good as there's ever been. Still, he's never been that superb of a postseason performer. In the Colts' prior Super Bowl run, he threw more INTs than TDs, which is hardly the stuff of legends. He's still a really good QB, but I think he's going to need to do more in the postseason to be considered an all-time great.