it wasn't intended for you, it was just a statement. Every team knows when another team is going for 2 or not. It doesn't surprise people. They may not have had any timeouts, but they review every scoring play. They had 5 minutes of dead time and commercial time to be ready for whatever the Packers might do. True, they'd have to go with what they lined up in, no calling timeout after that, but I don't think they would have been as shell shocked as everyone thinks.
Don't really want to rehash it, because as has been said before, MM woulda been crucified for going for 2 if he had attempted such and failed. I like the idea of more coaches taking risks to go for 2 and probably causing less OT games to have to deal with, plus of course I just don't like the idea that if someone scores a TD on the first possession without giving the other team a shot at the ball, the game is over. And that screwed up coin toss didn't help. But going for 2 in my opinion is like trying to get too greedy in a clock killing drive and going nuts on a 3rd and 15 kind of play with a pass that probably falls incomplete, instead of just using common sense and running the ball, even if you're not going to pick it up. I get with that high risk is the high reward that if we make the 2 pt convert we win, but I just think in a big game like that, you gotta use conventional wisdom. Plus as much as we want to dog the defense for giving up that TD in OT, they had a solid game overall and MM had plenty of reason to hope they could get his offense the ball back one more time.
I won't propagate how we woulda done against Carolina a 2nd time around because you really can't, especially in the season we've had in which almost nothing has been set. While it's certainly no gimme by any stretch that he who won the first match is he who wins the 2nd, as our last game against AZ showed, it was Carolina's year to get this done and look, we all were saying AZ was way better than them, but turns out that's not the case. The way they played last night, I just don't think anyone in the NFC was going to beat them.
Having said all that, I feel like the NFC as a whole was down this year considering the fiascos going on in the NFC East, the rest of the NFC South, and even the NFC West with San Francisco's decline and even Seattle not being the Seattle of old, being not as good as it has been. It'll be interesting though to see what transpires this next coming season. I suspect (for more reasons than 1) that Carolina will still hold the NFC South, but Atlanta will be getting better and give them a tougher competition for it, I highly suspect the NFC East will be better though we still don't know who's coaching NY and Philly, and ... Chip Kelly is now in SF, so we don't really know what's going to come. But add all that up plus the returns for us of Jordy Nelson and a few others, I think our team is getting back to looking more like the team we all know. So ... yeah totally expect the dynamics to change big time next year.
