This is silly.
Over the course of those 26 passes, the Colts scored a touchdown, moved the ball 45 yards to the Buccaneer 20, and moved into Buccaneer territory yet again.
Not a single drive stalled because they failed to convert a 3rd down.
You can argue that running the ball would have kept the Bucs honest, but on the interception, the Colts had Pittman matched up against a lone Safety, which is just about as good as it gets.
The NFL’s game replay shows something weird going on in Pittman’s stride, almost as if he was shoved by Winfield. But, mysteriously enough, they give us no slow motion view of the play, and replays start after the point where Pittman broke stride
As far as I’m concerned, the Pascal fumble was the crucial play of the game. It breathed life into a Buccaneer Offense that had been flopping around like a beached trout.
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