Why did Peyton take a knee??

[DJD]

OK, you have the ball. 32 seconds (thereabouts) on the clock. Tie score in a playoff game; you lose, your season's over. You're kind of deep in your own end, with no timeouts, BUT you have the best quarterback in the league (supposedly, he's the highest-paid, anyway). So, you take a knee on first down? Don't let him take a shot downfield? I just don't get that. One of the commentators, I think it was Dan Dierdorf, said something, too, like, "Am I the only one scratching my head here?"

I'm not saying anything would have been different.

Totally agree. We all said What??? At the same time when that happened. The coach (I assume) blew it. We all know the what ifs by letting him play but there are what ifs by doing what they did. Terrible call.