Feb 3, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh reacts in the closing seconds of the game against the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

A simple starting note, I am currently out of the country, the internet sucks and I will be here for some time. I hope that you are staying safe during this huge winter storm.

I had predicted the San Francisco 49ers to win the Super Bowl, and I had hoped they would win by a large margin. That did not occur by any means and was not anything close to what I thought would happen. I could talk about the black out and how it changed the momentum of game, but that would take away from the game itself. This game is truly a game of quarters black out or not.  I don’t’ know how many of you wanted the Ravens to win, but from the maps I saw on ESPN, NFL, and Adult Swim, not many people outside the Maryland area wanted the Ravens to win.

Overall the coaching in the game was two different stories. Jim Harbaugh wanted to win the game from the first time the Ravens had the football. Thus their first drive resulting in a touch down.  Jim Harbaugh didn’t trust his quarter back and looked like he wanted not to lose the game, and in doing so he harnessed his QB by not letting him make plays. In the end the John came to win to the Super Bowl and Jim almost rallied his to team win the Super Bowl, and failed. He failed to trust his team. He went for the tie because he felt his team never would be a position to win or tie again. Jim lets Akers kick that extra point, the 49ers are a point away and its a different game.  By failing to score a single touch down in the first half, they lost the Super Bowl.

Starting with first quarter, 49ers received the kick off and immediately chose a standard offensive to attack the Ravens defense. Now if the 49ers had done some sort of film study they would have seen that Ray Lewis is horrible in coverage and does not have the speed to keep up with Running Backs or Tight Ends. The early passes to Vernon Davis was very observable to a football mind.  Talking to other fans of the game, they could not understand why he not targeted more. The first quarter was the 49ers attempting to get into rhythm  and play a decent down of football While the Ravens spreading out the 49ers, and exposing them in zone coverage. At end of the First quarter score is 7-3 Ravens.

The Second quarter again the 49ers keep making some plays in standard formation, with runs not really get them any where with the Ravens nose tackle playing like a beast from another world. Before Ngata went down with an injury, the running game had no chance of working inside or outside of in a standard single back set. Yet in the option plays, the running game seemed to work just fine. The only hick-up we saw with the read option, was a fumble by James and put the momentum definitely on the side of the Ravens who then put 14 more points on the 49ers before they answer with 3 points and 21-6 Ravens.   I don’t think I am alone with you folks, that wanted to be a fly on the wall during the half time intermission.

The start of the third was with an electrifying, a 108 yard return for a touchdown. Wow, that was an amazing way to start the quarter. When the 49ers were facing 3^rd and 13. I knew before that black out that they weren’t going to make it. So when they failed to convert after the black out, I was not surprised, but I was surprised with the 3 and out that occurred, so quickly. The next 12-13 minutes of play completely changed the game as we all saw.  We saw the read option attack that we had been waiting for the entire game, used.  When it was used it worked extremely well, with the constant over pursuit by the ravens linebackers. Each line backer, or defensive end was constantly targeting Kaepernick, and was letting the ball carrier escape. Now if the niners had kept those types of attacks up while targeting Davis or Crabtree, it’s a different Super Bowl. Why didn’t we see this type of play to began with, we will never know. It certainly changed the game, and I think should have been done a lot earlier.

The fourth and final quarter came down to the play of the Ravens Defense and a SF’s offense that went into panic mode.  Your telling me you have four downs with inside the 20 yard, and you can’t score when you know what defense is coming.  Hmm, what would any other team do in the NFL, for instance, the QB sneak or the option, or a fade or scramble or anything really. Kaepernick is RIDICULOUSLY  fast, and don’t’ forget Frank Gore can run the ball well too. There were SO many chances to be had, but that chose to go with a fade on a fourth down, to little to late. And yes, while there might have been pass interference or holding, they should have done that on the first or second play, NOT on the last.  I think that debating a no call is pointless and like some many other things NFL we will never know. But when you have most of the professional analysts saying that this crew wasn’t the greatest. As they were saying well in advance that this head ref was headlining the big game. If I could find the audio it would be linked here.

This game was a total wild ride of game. I did not discuss the blackout because I do not want get involved with any of the theories that go along with it. Yes it changed the game. Everyone may have an opinion on that and you are welcome to leave your comments in the section below. Yes, do it wish the Patriots playing against this 49ers team, but  the best team won on Sunday. I didn’t want Ray Lewis to get his story book ending, but he earned it with the Ravens. I don’t agree with Joe “Pay the Man” Flacco winning the MVP award. I felt that honor should have gone to Jacoby Jones. That man had monster game. I saw that he had the most yards by a single player in a Super Bowl game.   In closing the San Francisco  49ers lost this game because they were out coached by the more experienced  Harbaugh brother. It comes down to something that simply. The coaching change at the OC postion was a smart one, show cased by running a lot of Manning Colts era offensive schemes. Let me end by saying great job by the Ravens, and we will see them next year.

Please look for my next article on My Crazy Farfetched Predictions for next year, while Ray Rice be a Raven, and could the Patriots steal Victor Cruz.. All that and more, again please visit again.

Feb 1, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA; A general view of the Vince Lombardi Trophy and the helmets for the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers at the commissioner

As I sit drinking my tea, Earl Grey… If you were able to finish that last sentence, I hope it made you laugh.  As a very passionate New England fan, I’m finding it very hard to cheer for ether team in the “Big Game” this year. I have never liked Ray Lewis, but the Ravens, have always made cheer when they play any one else. As for the 49ers, I haven’t liked the way team has been handled the last 5 years and I am not a fan of that coach from Stanford. Also my dad is a huge 49ers fan, and he taught me to enjoy the game of football. So I sit drinking tea and torn between two outstanding teams. Hopefully by then end of my three Super Bowl predictions I hope you have idea of who I think is going to win the Super Bowl.

–I truly  expect to see similar attack the 49ers employed against the Patriots and a smattering of play action boot-leg used as well. Yes, the Ravens have a strong defense and are playing with a lot of emotion. That being said I don’t believe they have the speed to match the offense of the San Francisco 49ers. My First prediction; Is that both Ray Rice and Colin Kaepernick will run for over 100 yards in this game. And the Ravens will discover no answer for that Read-option attack that will be used heavily.

–I expect the Ravens to keep it close in the first quarter, as the teams feel each other out.  As the second quarter starts I predict that the game will be blown wide open by a special teams play by Kyle Williams. I see this happening during a punt by the Ravens. My second is prediction is Joe Flacco will throw two interceptions by the end of the game. This leads me to my final prediction of..

–The finial predictions about the Super Bowl, is this game between the 49ers and Ravens will be over by at beginning of the 4th quarter.  With 3 TD passes thrown by Colin Kaepernick, with one rushing TD.  Frank Gore gets a touch down on 15 plus yard run in the second quarter. Mr. Joe Flacco will throw 1 TD and Ray Rice getting the second touchdown for the Ravens. As the game rolls to an end I think you will see a tired and out played Baltimore  team, that sadly end Ray Lewis’s career, and the possible beginning of an outstanding 49ers team, that will have a very tough division next year.

The finial score will be 34-17 49ers. Please leave your thoughts in comments, and Thank you for reading.

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This last Sunday’s game is a perfect example of how the Patriots use everyone. Look at the injuries that had occurred last Sunday. The New England Patriots lost Gronkowski and Woodhead to injury; they used Vereen instead and  immediately changed the game plan. Now when Woodhead came out of the game with a possible thumb or hand injury in the 1^st quarter. I want to believe that our OC immediately went and plugged in Vereen, because of his similar skill set. Now back to Lloyd, he is receiver that does a great job outside the numbers, where the team needs him to play. When looking at the game plan, Lloyd’s role changes every week.  He plays a particular position where McDaniel’s cannot just plug in another receiver and hope he can do the same thing. Lloyd has unique skill set that opponents are forced to game plan for. When the Patriots plan for their next opponent, Lloyd’s abilities are establish against the opposing team defensive players.

Last Sundays game against the Texans is a perfect example of opponents game planning against Lloyd. The Texans placed their best coverage guy on him and attempted to take him out of the game plan. The Patriots on the other hand had a different game plan that called for the ball to go somewhere else, most of the time. The fact the the Texans assigned CB Joseph to cover Lloyd the entire game, and still he could not cover him completely. I do not know if it was a coverage scheme or Joseph was tired, the CB played off of Lloyd on most of his catches including his TD catch. My football sense tells me the was a Texans coverage scheme and the Patriots immediately capitalized on the opportunity. Also looking at this past game there were times that Tom Brady need to take breath, relax and then throw the ball. If he had just taken that nanosecond of breath, a lot of throws to Lloyd and other receivers would have been made with the precision that Brady has. This is exactly what makes the Patriots offensive so scary, is that ability to constantly change and adapt there plan to the game. This next matchup with the Ravens will be a prefect example of the every changing offensive plan. When it comes to the Ravens I cannot say that how they will respond to Lloyd this time, but I do imagine that they will cover him and the game plan will evolve around what the Ravens do.

I was part of debate this weekend on Twitter, which stated Brady was treating Lloyd like Moss.

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That is far from the truth as we know it, Brady is human, and makes mistakes. I believe there is never an instance where Tom looks for Moss on the field. He is not that old, yet and will not be for some time. When comes down to how Lloyd is used the dynamic attack that is our offense, it changes from week to week, game to game and nothing is going to change that.  The Chemistry between Brady and Lloyd is fine, and will continue to be a fluid, an ever changing match-up.

This Sunday at 1830 EST, the game plan will be totally different from anything we have seen this season. The Patriots have far too many weapons to use and I bet there won’t be any decoys in this game of divisional champs.