Posted on 02/06/2006 8:53:10 AM PST by highlander_UW
As tragic as that was, I'm not sure how it caused Peyton Manning and the Colts offensive line to be hopelessly confused by the Steeler 3-4 defense.
This entire game looked like something out of the pre-season.
It looked to me like the defense on both sides of the ball were playing at a higher level than either offense unit. We have become accustomed, due to the rule changes over the last 20 years, to post season games generally being offensive shoot-outs with the occasional interception or fumble being the "big play". The game last night was kind of a throw back to the 70s where defense ruled and the occasional offensive "big play" made the difference.
But looking at those two teams, that makes sense.
A lot of uninformed viewers out there.
The ball shot way out there. The Steeler was running for it, but pulled up when the official in that area came pointing at the ground.
If it had been closer, and scooped up, the red flag may have come out, but the ball was left all alone by the defender...poor choice on his part.
If you have information on the hiarchy within ESPN, go ahead and share it. I don't care if he's a senior writer or some beat writer...he's accurate.
First of all there are 32 teams in the NFL. I know that Bill Cowher will be back to the drawingboard come April. Teams will be preparing to beat their opponents EVERY week not just the steelers.
Go back and read what he wrote instead of just complaining. He said 31 teams will be preparing to beat the Steelers...it'd be stupid for him to write 32 teams because, and correct me if I'm wrong here, the Steelers don't normally try to develop a game plan to beat themselves.
This Smith guy is a real P U T Z
Although he makes more sense when one utilizes reading skills.
It's statements like this that undermine your whole post. No, they didn't play better. They won because, at the end of the game, they had more points on the board...but they were outplayed on Offense, Defense and it was about a push on special teams.
Come on. You are being small at best, and whiner at worst.
You got it. 2nd Qtr. It was on a pass to Ward I believe.
That's right, the majority of Americans are wrong, but a handful of Pittsburgh fans are the "informed" ones. Trying to develop some form of elitism in the Steel city?
So right. I'm not wishing at all to sound judgmental, but you are just stone-RIGHT! I think he probably would have caught it too. He just picked a bad place to break the rules. Sort of like robbing a bank with 10 policemen standing behind you.
When push comes to shove...you gotta trust the NFL system for choosing the officials.
I understand they used to keep ref squads together. Now they are composed of the highest graded officials from all crews.
See # 163.
I don't think it's arrogance, I've seen the interview where Marv uttered the immortal "like any other game" line (I doubt Marv invented the idea, he was just the first guy caught on tape admitting it). Basically his idea seemed to be to avoid stressing out his players and staff, we've all seen teams have problems with the stress of the playoffs and Super Bowl (just last night in fact, both offenses seriously suffered from "OMG I'm in the SB"), and instead the Levy method is to say you're a good team, you were good enough to get here and that should be good enough to win here. The problem comes in when you run into a coach that knows how to amp up the planning without inducing stress.
I'm not sure Shanahan had much of a choice, while the rest of the world was signing Plummer's praises Shanahan saw Jake every day in practice, nobody knew better than Shanahan if Jake the Mistake was really gone or just on hiatus, and I think game planned accordingly. I mean we saw what happened once the Broncs were down by more than one score, Jake couldn't win the game on his own they had to get the run game going and trust their defense to get some stops. Neither happened, they needed Jake, and Jake the Mistake came back.
Here is the deal, I think.
The network probably gave the same number of players from each team an opportunity to pose with the trophy.
If one remembers, in hockey, many players feel they should NOT touch the Stanley Cup unless they win.
It could be that some Seahawks turned down the opportunity. If that is the case, the networks are under no obligation to say...Ok we need four guys total...
If Seattle's key guys did not want to...that is Seattle's fault...not the network.
Myself...I did NOT like the commercials with those guys. It did not bring me closer to the game or any of them.
Not a poor choice at all, once the ref blew his whistle and pointed to the ground the play was done, nothing about a red flag could have changed that. Once play is ruled over you can't challenge to get anything that occured after that point, because they know players stop when the whistle blows and it would be unfair (and possibly unsafe) to reward a player for not stopping when the refs said the play was over.
Everyone knows Shanahan scripts the first 15 plays or so.
I believe they were the worst first 15 plays I have ever seen from Kubiak-Shanahan.
My thought was...ewwww! Did Kubiak just cost himself his shot at Head Coaching...they were that bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im not a Pittsburgh fan, Im a Redskins fan. It sucks to lose the Super Bowl, I know. But there is always next year..
Low blow and something I would not expect on this forum. It was who was in charge of counting the votes that was the problem not the ballot boxes.
That may be, although I doubt it. But as I mentioned previously, I think that was just a reflection of media bias...but I'm used to that. I didn't really care about that part, other than to notice and laugh at it. What bothered me was the officiating probably changing the outcome of the game. How can someone who is tackling the ball carrier be flagged for a personal foul for a low block?! He wasn't blocking anyone, he was making a tackle.
You are referring to the "down by contact" rule. True.
I just don't know if that was the call there or not.
Indeed there is...God willing. So I can wish your team good luck next year (although not when they face the Seahawks...but I'm sure you'll understand).
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