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Blaming Rex Grossman for the loss is pretty knee jerk if you ask me. Bears S Danieal Manning was directly as responsible for just as many points as Grossman was, and unlike Grossman he was in no way impressive.

At this stage in his career, Grossman is a below average QB with the potential to be an above average one. He struggled all year to complete an acceptable amount of his passes (completion %), and for three quarters of the Super Bowl, Grossman was completing better than 75%. This shows remarkable improvement and understanding of the offense.

Yet, despite three very good quarters from the Quarterback, the Bears were dominated in all phases of the game, and were trailing by 5. That was in no way their QBs fault.

Grossman had struggled to throw the long ball all day in the conditions, and whether you consider the Hayden INT to be a poor decision to try to throw the fade ball in the rain, or just a crappy throw (I think it was both), you have to admit that the interception was predomantly, if not entirely, on the quarterback. The second INT to Sanders was a good decision, but once again the QB failed to deliever the deep ball accurately in the conditions.

Peyton Manning showed a patience that clearly seperated the two QBs on this day in taking the underneath stuff to beat the Bears Cover 2. Manning didn't try to stretch the field unessarily when the Bears were giving up the underneath stuff, possibly because he didn't trust a down the field throw into coverage in the wet conditions.

A Quarterbacks' day is defined by the entire body of work, not by one or two critical throws. Grossman completed 71% on the day, for IMO a solid, but unspectacular day where he made some mistakes.

Bad sportswriting is everywhere, and for those who think Rex should have been replaced at QB by Brian Griese at any point this year have apparently never seen Brian Griese play his way out of Denver and later Tampa Bay.