What I'm saying is that there are several dudes who know the game better than you, who believe that INT was more a fault of Wayne than Manning.
And while I am certain Peyton would love to come down on Reggie Wayne for essentially not showing up to the biggest game of the year, as well as Garcon for dropping a pass thrown right in his chest, he took the higher road and pointed out the solid play of Porter.
But there is a former QB who says that it was Manning who should have, at worst, thrown the ball to Wayne's back shoulder as it looked like that is what he was expecting and ideally, should not have thrown the ball at all. That it was a bad decision by Manning.
Why shouldn't I believe that ex-player instead of the one's you've mentioned?
But taking the commentators opinions out of it, I think it just looked like a missed read or miscommunication. And Manning said it was a good play by the DB and the DB said he jumped the route because it was something he'd seen many times in his film studies...sometimes the obvious answer is the right answer. Manning threw a pick-6.
It wasn't tipped, the receiver didn't cut out instead of in, Manning wasn't being hit as he threw the ball, the defender didn't peel off his receiver into the passing lane...I don't really see how that one can be anything but as it appeared. Manning isn't perfect and the DB guessed right.
