Sigh.
In another example of defense's importance, targets are primarily a product of how much importance the opposing defense has placed on your receiver. For the most part, the Packers tried to let anybody but Dez beat them, which is why you saw Beasley, T.Williams and Witten all have good games.
The sign of a good QB is being able to acknowledge how the defense is playing you and adjust, because you don't have to force -- the defense can't prevent a leak from springing somewhere on every play. It's the effect of 22 players all doing different things.
Flacco just threw balls up carelessly in the second half against New England, even in times when they weren't on a desperation drive. Being responsible on nearly every play is totally negated when he decides to abandon all sense of tact and chuck it up with a safety playing over the top. I like him, but his arrogance in the playoffs will help him 19 times and hurt him once, and because Rahim Moore (I think it was Moore) let Jacoby Jones unfathomably get behind him in a prevent set, that "once" didn't happen where it typically would.
Flacco took advantage of that and that's doing his job, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing that he was able to connect with Jones there and it really should have never happened, meaning they really should have never won the Super Bowl. But things happen.
