Biggest play of each game of the year

[bLACKpANTHER]

Seattle - This will be no surprise, the DeAngelo fumble in route to the endzone at the end of the game was the biggest play.

 

Buffalo - 4th and 1 with 1:42 remaining, Ron decides to kick the FG and put it on the defense's shoulders. It end up biting him and changing his thought process the rest of the year.

 

Giants - Cam 3 yd TD run in the 3rd Qtr- Cam let's out a earth shattering yell that tells everyone who doubted him to STFU

 

Arizona - Cam sacked in the endzone for a Saftey in the 3rd Qtr. Everything was going wrong that day, including 3 INTs but the Saftey was just the insult to injury and it became obvious this just wasn't our day.

 

Minnesota - LaFell 79yd TD catch with an amazing block by Ginn to seal the deal.

 

St. Louis - Smitty's 19 yd TD catch in the 3rd Qtr where he pointed back to Jenkins. This put the game well in hand and the defense finished up nicely.

 

Tampa - This one was tough, but im going to go with Cam throwing on the sidelines and Byers running under him and hurting Cam's hand. I dunno, or maybe Cam shaking off a D-lineman and throwing to a wide open Olsen for a TD in the 1st half. I really wasn't much of a game.

 

Atlanta - Drayton Florence 38yd pick 6 from Ryan in the 4th quarter sealed the deal.

 

San Fran - After missing a make-able FG early in the game- Gano comes in (cold-blooded) and knocks a 53 yd FG straight through the uprights to give us a lead in the 4th.

 

New England - hmmmm... I will go with the Ginn TD and not the Luke/flag pickup/controversy

 

Miami - 4th and 10 from our own 20 yd line. Pass caught by Smitty. Moves the chains we go on to score, Riverboat Ron wins.

 

Tampa - Glennon was playing pretty well and we looked like we were in for a fight until he made that silly looking play where he tried to throw it and it just slipped out of his hand for a fumble and we recovered. This was in the 1st half but from that play on- it was over

 

New Orleans - I will just go with the entire 2nd Qtr. NO scored 21pts and really put the game out of reach.

 

Jets - Deangelo's 72 yd TD screen pass was good, but it was early in a slug-fest of a game. The Cap'n Munnerlyn pick 6 at the end was the icing on the cake.

 

New Orleans - The decision to punt by Rivera was great, and WE ALL HATED IT. But he made us all believe and so did Hixon's catch at the end. Still an Amazing feeling!!

 

Atlanta - 9 sacks- pick one.. OR the botched snap at the end caused by the FANS that showed out in ATL!

[Servant of Cthululelei]

This feels like a "were not in the playoffs, so let's look at what could have been" kind of thread.

 

I find it hard to boil games down to a "most important play" anyways.  But if we're playing that game, the Melvin White pick-six was easily the biggest one of the ATL game, not 1 of 9 sacks.

[Goondal]

I would go with the dropped 4th down play in the Arizona game.  If we take that in for a score the rest of the game could have gone totally differently.

 

As for Week 17, I think the pick 6.  D-Will's run was the first sign of life all game and it ended in disaster.  Things were not going well at all at that point.  That play changed all that.

[SOJA]

NY Jets is easily the blocked punt

[Nate Dogg]

The last ATL game was definitely the pick 6. We had done nothing offensively all day and finally D-WILL breaks one only to flatten the sails seconds later with the fumble.

 

If Matt Ryan goes the length of the field on that drive and puts up points they would've had the game in their hands. Instead, Melvin makes an amazing play and puts us on top with all the momentum.

[Peppers90 NC]

Deangelo's run at SF, the holding call the nullified a TD run vs the Giants that woulda tied up the game at 7 are a couple game-changers

[KJ89]

Meh.

[TN05]

Those are all good choices but I'd say Steve Smith's touchdown drop in Arizona was the biggest play. If he made that I think we would have won that game easily.

[Jesse]

Those are all good choices but I'd say Steve Smith's touchdown drop in Arizona was the biggest play. If he made that I think we would have won that game easily.

Wasn't it LaFell who dropped the ball in the endzone on 4th down?

[KSpan]

Wasn't it LaFell who dropped the ball in the endzone on 4th down?

 

Smitty dropped the TD on I think 3rd down, LaFell dropped the 4th down pass deep in AZ territory during a different drive..

[TN05]

Wasn't it LaFell who dropped the ball in the endzone on 4th down?

 

Kind of. Smitty had an uncovered drop right in the middle of endzone, and then a few drives later LaFell dropped one over the middle on a 4th down. If he had caught it there is a good chance he could have run it in.

[the butch]

I still get chills from that NO game.  It wasn't on my side of the field, but the surge that went through the fans from one end to the other was like an electric current.  Wow.  Just, wow.  

[DirtyMagic97]

I have to agree with the pick 6 in week 17. It all felt like a letdown week until that happened. Completely changed the course of the game.

[PghPanther]

Great thread...........

 

I will go with the refusal to go on 4 and 1 during the Buffalo game which would have positioned us to win the game.........that loss threatened the integrity of the whole season and took a deer in the headlight look of a head coach into a Riverboat Ron risk taking approach that was a confidence building experience for both the team, staff and fans.