2002 nfc divisional playoff game




















This time, the two point conversion failed when Will Allen intercepted Garcia's pass intended for Owens, but the 49ers took the lead, , with 1 minute left in regulation. The touchdown and 2-point conversion plays resulted in offsetting personal fouls on both teams after they ended. After the touchdown, Owens was flagged for taunting safety Shaun Williams , while Williams was flagged shoving him to the ground in response.

Then after the two point conversion, Owens was penalized for a late hit on Allen, which started a brawl between both teams. During the altercation, Williams was penalized and ejected from the game for throwing a punch at 49ers center Jeremy Newberry. However, the Giants did have a chance to win.

Delvin Joyce returned Chandler's short kickoff 32 yards to the yard line. Collins then led them to the 49ers yard line with 6 seconds left. But Junkin botched a snap for a yard field goal attempt, resulting in a feeble pass play that fell incomplete. The Giants were also called for having an illegal man downfield on the play, and the game ended. The following day, it was revealed that the penalized player guard Rich Seubert had in fact checked in as an eligible receiver before the field goal attempt, although a different Giant lineman actually was illegally downfield.

Had the two right calls been made, the down would have been replayed at the previous spot, the San Francisco Garcia threw for yards and 3 touchdowns with 1 interception, while also leading the 49ers on the ground with 60 rushing yards and another score. Owens caught 9 passes for yards and 2 touchdowns.

He also scored two 2-point conversions and completed a yard pass. Collins threw for yards and 4 touchdowns with 1 interception. Toomer caught 8 passes for yards and 3 touchdowns. Barber rushed for yards, caught 5 passes for 62 yards, and scored a touchdown. The third time was the charm for Titans kicker Joe Nedney. After missing the potential game-winning field goal at the end of regulation time, and a second failed kick in overtime was negated because of a controversial running-into-the-kicker penalty on Pittsburgh's Dewayne Washington , Nedney won the game from 26 yards out into overtime.

Steelers coach Bill Cowher was incensed, saying he called a timeout before the winning kick took place. Earlier in the game, the Titans jumped to an early lead with touchdowns from Eddie George and Steve McNair before the Steelers converted three turnovers into 20 points. Two of the turnovers were fumbles by George, who had not fumbled all season, and his second one was converted into a yard touchdown run by Amos Zereoue.

But Tennessee stormed right back, going into a no-huddle offense and scoring twice in a span of five minutes with McNair's touchdown passes to tight ends Frank Wycheck and Erron Kinney, giving them a lead going into the fourth quarter. In the final period, a yard Hines Ward touchdown reception and subsequent two-point conversion tied the game at The teams traded field goals late in the final period to send the game into overtime, following a missed yard field goal by Nedney on the last play in regulation.

In the first overtime period, referee Ron Blum announced that each team had three timeouts. This caused some confusion because, compared with the regular season, overtime in the postseason utilizes slightly different rules.

They sent out Nedney to win the game, setting up a wild finish. Nedney's first kick was good, but it was negated because the Steelers had called timeout. The fireworks operator at the stadium inadvertently set off the fireworks, delaying the game for several minutes.

After the fireworks had fizzled, Nedney attempted to win the game again. His kick was wide right, but Washington was penalized for running into Nedney. After the five-yard penalty was assessed, Nedney was given a third try.

This time he converted the kick, winning the game. Wycheck finished the game with 10 receptions for yards and a touchdown. McNair threw for a career postseason high yards and 2 touchdowns, with 2 interceptions, while rushing for 29 yards and another score on the ground. The hyped quarterback duel between Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick never materialized, as the Eagles' defense sacked Vick three times and intercepted him twice, including Bobby Taylor 's yard return for a touchdown.

With the Eagles leading in the second quarter, Vick tried to rally his team back. First he led them 61 yards in 13 plays to score on a Jay Feely field goal with left in the half.

Then after forcing a punt, Vick ran for 20 yards and completed a yard pass to Brian Finneran to set up a yard field goal from Feely, making the score by halftime.

But in the third quarter, a yard touchdown run by Vick that could have tied the game was called back by a holding penalty on Travis Claridge , and Feely missed a yard field goal a few plays later. The Eagles then put the game away in the fourth quarter with McNabb's yard touchdown pass to James Thrash with left in regulation.

McNabb finished with 20 of 30 completions for yards and a touchdown, along with 24 rushing yards. This would be the last ever win for the Eagles at the Vet. The Buccaneers, with the league's top ranked defense during the regular season, forced five turnovers, sacked quarterback Jeff Garcia four times, and limited the 49ers to only two field goals.

Tampa Bay quarterback Brad Johnson , who had been sidelined for a month, returned to throw for yards and two touchdowns. Fullback Mike Alstott scored two touchdowns, while the Buccaneers held onto the ball for and held the 49ers to a season low yards. This was San Francisco's first playoff game without a touchdown since Despite San Francisco's record and their wildcard playoff win against New York, coach Steve Mariucci was fired three days after this game.

The 49ers would not return to the playoffs until Chad Pennington 's dream season came to an end as the Jets quarterback threw two interceptions, lost two fumbles, and was sacked four times twice by Rod Coleman.

Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon threw for yards and two touchdowns as Oakland pulled away from a halftime tie by forcing four consecutive turnovers and scoring twenty consecutive second half points. Aided by a yard run from Curtis Martin and a yard pass interference penalty on Charles Woodson , John Hall 's yard field goal gave the Jets an early lead before he was matched by a yard field goal from Sebastian Janikowski to tie the game.

This was the Tommy Maddox who was the former No. This was the Tommy Maddox who sent letters to every NFL team in hoping for something, anything, and got only one reply — from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Tommy Maddox who barely beat out Tee Martin for a backup job that summer, and then had benefited when Coach Bill Cowher pulled Kordell Stewart in the fourth quarter of this season's third regular season game.

From that moment until this day — Jan. It was more pitch-and-catch than block-and-tackle, and when Maddox was his alter ego of Tommy Gun, it was the kind of offense that could erase a second half deficit to the hated Cleveland Browns in an AFC Wild Card Game to lead a comeback win.

But when Maddox was the guy whose NFL career ended with more interceptions than touchdowns, well, the defense just wasn't equipped to play the up-tempo, quick-change style. But beyond the purely tactical, the tale of Tommy Maddox included the afternoon of Nov. They tried to get me to grip with my hands, and I remember the first time I was able to give a little pressure back. One of the doctors said, 'All right, we have something going. Then I realized I still wasn't moving my legs.

On Nov. Joseph Maroon, a leading neurosurgeon and a pioneer in studying the cumulative effects of concussions, said about Maddox, "His anatomical and physiological and clinical examinations are all completely normal. We discharged him from the hospital. He is on the way home and is perfectly normal upon examination this morning. The spinal cord is pristine in terms of its depiction on the MRI. That Tommy Maddox had come back from such trauma was a big story; that he had been so magical over the last quarter-and-a-half in the previous weekend's magical win over the Browns in the wild card round made it a bigger story.

In the regular season opener against the New England Patriots, their pass defense had been exposed, and so it was that Steve McNair and the Titans attacked this very weakness in the Steelers' biggest game of the year. It is said that the playoffs are a reflection of a team's regular season, and many of the characteristics the Steelers had developed over those previous four months were on display in the game that would eliminate them from the playoffs.

The problem with the Steelers' pass defense in was that it was unable to generate a consistent pass rush without blitzing, and it didn't have the athletes in coverage to force the quarterback to hold the ball long enough for the blitz to get there.

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Louis, Missouri. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner 13 is an endzone study in concentration before the January 20, playoff game against the Green Bay Packers in St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner 13 calls a play in the huddle during the Jan.

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