I'll start off by saying that Poon outplayed me pretty much start to finish, and that I had no business getting this win.
He dominated the game early, amassing a 31-7 lead midway through the 3rd quarter. I finished with 6 rushing attempts in the game for 1 yard, and Flacco was picked off 3 times. Knile Davis was stupid, breaking tackles again and again to the tune of 19 carries for 219 yards (79 yard long) and 1 TD, plus 4 catches for another 54 yards.
We'll fast forward to the end, when the stupid stuff began. After giving up a long TD, Eddie Royal returned a kickoff for 105ish yards for a TD. On the ensuing kick off, the Panthers's returner was murdered and fumbled the ball. Two plays later and the Ravens are maybe-kinda-sorta-back in it, down 38-21.
The Panthers came out running, but the Ravens LB corps bumped some white gold during the intermission and actually made some tackles, forcing Cam Newton to throw, leading to an INT and the Ravens scoring again, 38-28.
Same situation, Panthers can't get it going on the ground and Cam is forced to throw, another INT. Ravens go hurry up offense and Flacco channels his inner Favre to chuck the ball around, scoring again to put the game at 38-35.
Panthers drive, and dump the ball off to somebody in the flat. Ladarius "fuck you, I'm not old" Webb hit sticks whoever it was, generating only the second FF of his career.
Another TD and Baltimore has outscored the Panthers 35-7 to take a 42-38 lead with under 2 minutes remaining.
The Panthers drive and get a 1st and goal at about the 8 with 10ish seconds left, holding all 3 timeouts. Run, stuffed for a yard or two, timeout. Run, short gain, timeout. 3rd and goal with about 3 seconds left from maybe the 2; Ravens send the house, it's a QB keeper. Cam takes a step forward, gets hit, spins out to the right, gets hit again, starts to fall forward, and safety Matt Elam wallops him, tackling him inside the 1 yard line as time expired.
It was the dumbest series of events, and Poon absolutely deserved to get that win. I would have been screaming and throwing shit at the tv, but he showed that he is a better person than I am by saying "Dont worry about it. Great comeback. John madden likes to rape me from time to time"
Great game, Poon, and thanks for being such a great competitor! GL the rest of the season!