[beyond the sea]

Not trying to wear this out (really) but I just ran across these letters to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Yes, they're just fans, but I thought I'd pass them along to you. I especially liked the one where the guy writes of, "hiring a math expert to stand on the sideline for coach BillCowher".

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I am interested to know if the Steelers thought about the possibility of hiring a math expert to stand on the sideline for coach BillCowher. He took momentum from his team [by kicking the field goal on the 2]. Even with the field goal, it still required his team to have two touchdowns to win the game or at least one touchdown and a two-point conversion to tie it or a touchdown and two field goals to win. Besides his team was still required to keep the Patriots from scoring.

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"I'd do it again." That's exactly why Cowher needs to go. He won't, though, and that's exactly why the Steelers will never win a Super Bowl with him. Playing not to lose when you're down by 14 late in a playoff game, against a team that you can't even keep off the scoreboard. He's an idiot, pure and simple. There wasn't a single person watching anywhere that even considered for one second that he would kick a field goal there, but he did.

If I were a Steelers player, I would have walked off the field and emptied my locker before Reed even teed it up.

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He needed to go for it on fourth down from the 2 when the score was 31-17. A field goal at that point was simply too conservative and indicated that we felt we were the weaker team.

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And when the coaches chose a field goal over a 2-yard touchdown attempt as time began to dwindle, they said as much to the world that they believed that they could not win. Next time Bill, go for it.

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Yep, next time Bill, go for it!

Only about 170 days 'til training camp. ;-)

[cherry]

my two cents on the "superbowl" is I can't stand either team and I hope I can find something else to do that whole day......my hubby agrees....

[Wristpin]

Why should Cowher worry about winning? He's been annointed "Coach for Life" despite the same failures time after time.

Kind of reminds me of Mayor for life Marion Barry.

By the way if Assante Samuel didn't drop three interceptions in the 3rd and 4th quarter this whole issue is a moot point. The Patriots gameplan of making Ben throw worked well.

[Libertarian4Bush]

regarding cowher:

remember at the end of the eagles' game, when Lewis got his 2nd TD with just under 4 minutes left? the pandemonium that broke loose because the game was iced away?

that, my friends, is the difference between a 13 point lead and a 17 point lead. had the Steelers' defense held, they would have forced NE into a decision no less difficult than cowher's.

less probable comebacks have happened. to new england. this year. (dolphins game)