Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

You were way off point into predicting how SD would lose. Rivers didn't cost them the game. In fact, he had a good game for a first year starter. Obviously dumb penalties and dropped passes cost the Chargers the game.

The interception then fumble on 4th down was perhaps one of the biggest choke jobs in the history of the NFL playoffs. At that point anyone with an elementary understanding of football knew the game was over.

Congrats on the Pats winning, but they didn't look the least bit impressive and the game was one of the few examples of why parity sometimes isn't a good thing.