Faggot Easterbrook wrote:

For Denver's part, the team's defensive game plan was to use seven-man and eight-man fronts, daring Indianapolis to throw. What a brilliant idea! Denver also came in planning to big-blitz a lot, which is like coming into a confrontation with Brer Rabbit planning to toss him into the briar patch. Manning loves to throw against the blitz; how could Denver possibly have thought otherwise? The Broncos were six-blitzing on two long receptions by Dallas Clark, on a long catch by Brandon Stokley, on Reggie Wayne's 42-yard touchdown catch, on a 24-yard pass to Marvin Harrison at the two-minute warning of the first half, on a 20-yard pass to Wayne two snaps later that put Indianapolis on the 1 and made it 35-3 at halftime. Roughly half the Colts passing yardage came against blitzes, while Denver only sacked Manning once and only hurried him a couple of times. Manning finished 27 of 33 for 457 yards -- so big-blitzing let Manning have one of the best games of his career. Often Denver blitzed one or two defensive backs, and Manning immediately threw to the place they had vacated. If you can explain why Denver was blitzing so much when Manning loves to be blitzed, you have a future in sportstalk radio.