Difficult end to a great season, Deacs. Hold your heads up high.
The fake slide was annoying. If you initiate a slide, that needs to be a dead ball. Faking the slide should be a dead ball + 15 unsportsmanlike. Pickett exposed a weak spot in the rules. I guess you can't blame him for it; that's on the league.
On that subject, if the coaches/ADs haven't had enough of the faking injuries, hopefully the TV people will step in and force the leagues to fix it. Nobody wants to discourage people who are genuinely hurt, but people who are genuinely hurt don't need to keep playing. If you stop the game, you need to be ineligible to return until no sooner than the next series. Something has to give here.
Midway through the first half, I thought I saw Sam's head hit the turf in a scary way. Somebody pancaked him and it went straight back and popped off the ground. I hope that wasn't a contributing factor but when I saw it in real-time and on replay it looked worrisome. I hope he's okay.
I almost forgot to say that the defense delivered. 4 of 14 on third down is winning football when you don't throw 4 picks.