let's talk about two key calls...

first is the field goal david akers missed where he got the running into the kicker call. it looked like to me he hopped down once he saw he hooked it and flopped onto the Baltimore guy. the refs need to get together on that call and speak up if they think the kicker embellished it, and pick up the flag

second was frisco's second timeout in the second half. the first one in hindsight was okay, bc they regained the momentum and turned a blowout into a game in a short stretch.

but now it's 2nd and goal at the 5 after an incomplete pass. this was jim's biggest blunder. he must have thought he was gonna win it or lose it right there. the clock wasn't running and was at 1:55. you just had the two minute warning.

let's say you don't use the timeout and you don't score the TD. Assuming you ran pass plays that were incomplete, B-More gets it back on their own 5 (or 10, if they took that timeout to guard against the DOG). you have two timeouts, and if they go 3 and out, you have maybe 40 seconds with no timeouts. Hard, but you have a chance somewhat.

Instead, B-More ran it down to 0:12, SMARTLY took the safety, and that was all she wrote. Ginn could have fair caught it but he probably had a better chance returning it than the 9ers had of a hail mary