2 things.
People blaming all the DBs for not having the ability to stick with those receivers are a little off. I've only been to a few games this year, but each time, it's been the same thing. Our safeties are confused often. They are talking to themselves about the correct calls right up to the snap, they are out of the view of the TV screen arguing. They don't know the calls. They are panicking. Quite simply, Chung and Ihedigbo have not played long enough together. So, it may look like Chung is biting on play fakes, but on that long Boldin run at the end and the bomb that Flacco connected on (but really blew because it should have been a TD) it wasn't a matter of biting, but of being on the wrong side of the field and just not covering people at all.
The Patriots safeties are making mental errors BEFORE the snap.
Second thing, on the Boldin fumble out of bounds. I didn't realize that the TV broadcast didn't catch this because they went to replay, but the referees badly screwed up the clock. When the ball rolled out of bounds, the clock was at :44 but the one ref wound his arm like Boldin was down in bounds. The clock should have been running. Ten seconds past, and a ref started waving his arm like crazy to start the clock, and just then the clock started. That's why you see CBS going to an instant replay and then after they show the Boldin fumble they come back to the action and the clock is only showing :39 whereas it should have been down to :29. I can't understand why the ref who noticed time had stopped didn't blow his whistle and correct things. It probably would have meant that the Ravens go for the FG on 3rd down instead of the throw to Pitta that Moore knocked away.
I'm not complaining about the result obviously, but if the Ravens had scored a TD on 3rd or 4th down, we would have been pissed.
