NFLVideo

“That Was The Game”: Wes Welker’s Costly Super Bowl Drop, Mic’d Up

by Dan Fogarty | 3:00 pm, February 9th, 2012

Last night, the NFL Network aired its Sound FX show for Super Bowl 46. And in the following clip, we hear one referee say to another, after Wes Welker’s costly fourth quarter drop, ”That was the game.” And he was probably right.

Sound FX, for the uninitiated, puts microphones on the players, coaches, and refs, and allows the viewer to hear (an edited version of) what was said during the game. These soundbites, interspersed with those super-dramatic slow-motion camera shots, provide a unique look behind the scenes during some of football’s biggest games. Since there is no bigger game than the Super Bowl, last night’s episode was fantastic.

Had Welker made this catch with 4:05 left to play and a two point lead, New England is likely to have won the Super Bowl. The math says so. But the throw from Brady was a little behind him, and the rest, unfortunately for Welker, is history. Video here.

[NFL]

Cmiketinac

That throw was more than a little behind him. Welker says he should have caught it, and usually he does, but Brady’s throw was off the mark.
John John

IF IDIOTS WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE PLAY YOU’LL SEE IT WAS NOBODY’S FAULT BUT A WEIRD SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
The 2 Giant defenders were confused as to the coverage and both stopped to pick up a hitch route by the other receiver.
However brady didnt know this..he was already throwing the ball and from his perspective in time Welker was in man coverage on his right–so he threw it exactly where a QB is taught.
Welker had no idea the ball was already in the air, saw supposed ZONE coverage, and didnt switch shoulders.
So the defensive confusion caused offensive confusion. No ones fault..just another way for people to claim they didnt actually lose…the win was stolen from them by a mistake. Happens every year–nobody’s team actually gets beat.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6NVQXKGM4GSM6RZ7ZW3BQ2D73I Kim

My friend just met a chocolate man on Blackwhitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
It’s a nice place for black white sing’les, to interact with each other…no bounds or extremes in front of true love.

Biggest Hits

WAG Spotting

NBA Wags

Paulina Gretzky

Follow SportsGrid

Now Tweeting

The Best of Twitter

Ethan Strauss Whenever my headlines end in question marks, it means that I don't think Shaq will be Orlando's GM

Ethan Strauss You can tell Shaq's not going to be the Orlando GM because all those headlines end in a question mark

Evan Woodbery RT @AUTigerBaseball Vanderbilt defeats South Carolina 3-2. We will play South Carolina at 4:30 tomorrow. TBA vs Michael Roth

Jim Rome Think Kevin Garnett will be very amped for a possible end of an era, Game 7 in Boston? I have a KG Google Alert; I'm not missing anything.

Bill Barnwell Got tons of respect for knowledge of scouts/ex-players. But when 198 players get chosen before Tom Brady, nobody gets to play know-it-all.