Exactly. I don’t play that game. I look at it as we were 40 yards away from winning the championship.
People forget that the Indiana lineman’s false start gave us a chance or they likely run the clock out and Beck never has the opportunity to throw the pick.
This was like the reverse of the Ole Miss game. Indiana completely controlled this game. We could not stop the run when they had to run.
Beck made a mistake. It happens. But to me you don’t throw that unless you actually see the receiver wide open. It was poor game management since it was first down.
The game may have ended with a sack or a failed fourth down conversion on the 15…but part of me thinks in another universe Mali makes a great back of the end zone touchdown catch like that Steelers receiver did against the cardinals in the Super Bowl cementing himself as a cane legend.