Everyone covering passes for the Denver Broncos: You can blame safety Rahim Moore all you want for losing coverage on the 70-yard touchdown pass from Joe Flacco to Jacoby Jones with 31 seconds left in regulation of the Baltimore Ravens’ 38-35 overtime win over the Denver Broncos. But it was hardly all Moore’s fault, even on that one play. Safeties Jim Leonhard and Mike Adams made confusing decisions, and cornerback Tony Carter got flat-out clowned down the sideline by Jones’ pure speed. Add in Champ Bailey made to look like anything but a future Hall-of-Famer when covering Ravens speedster Torrey Smith, and Denver has a secondary that will raise serious offseason questions in general. Maybe it was just a bad day — after all, Bailey gave up just one touchdown in the regular season before giving up two to Smith — but that’s the main reason the Broncos, the AFC’s number-one-seed, is out of the playoffs. Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll: Carroll said this week that he had gone beyond the “hormonal” decisions that sometimes affected his success in previous landing spots, but the Seahawks’ head man did not have his best day in Seattle’s 30-28 nail-biting loss to the Atlanta Falcons. In addition to a number of head-scratching play calls in the red zone from his staff (seriously — that’s when you want Marshawn Lynch in there), Carroll may well have iced himself out of a championship game when he called time out just before Matt Bryant’s first attempt at a 49-yard field goal with 13 seconds left in the game. Bryant missed that one to the right, but nailed his second chance to send the Seahawks home for the season. Carroll is a good coach, and he’s done an amazing job with a young Seahawks team, but he’ll spend a lot of time wondering just what he was thinking at certain points of this game. The Green Bay Packers defense in general:
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