SB XLV AFTERMATH

  

Congrats, Packers, you mostly (except for dropped passes) did what you needed to do to win.


NFL fans that's probably the WORST performance you will ever see by a team in a 6-point Super Bowl loss.


ROSES to the Steelers' Doug "Bronco" Legursky. A very good performance for his first NFL start at center.


ROSES to the Steelers' running game. They did a good job for having played from behind the entire game.


ROSES to the Packers' offense just because they should probably get something.


ROSES to the Steelers' kickoff teams providing good field position except when flagged for penalties and preventing any significant returns by the Packers.


ROSES to Hines Ward.


PILES OF THORNS to Roger Goodell. Well, guy, you got what you wanted, a Steelers defeat in the SB. I'll say no more.


BUSHELS OF THORNS to Fox, the NFL Channel, ESPN, et. al., for basically two weeks of the same thing and specifically to Fox for the piece within the game about Roethlisberger's suspension after throwing the pick-six. Necessary?


THORNS to the Steelers. They played two absolutely terrible games this season, against New England in November at Heinz Field and last night. Both were hugely important games at the time and they embarrassed their fans in both of them. Three giveaways and no takeaways will get you beat every time (even in the regular season).


THORNS to Ben Roethlisberer. Right from the start he appeared to be in some other time dimension and was reason on offense why the Steelers lost.


THORNS to WIlliam Gay. Ditto from above. He was the obvious weak link who couldn't cover anyone all night and the Packers took full advantage. He was the reason on defense why the Steelers lost.

THORNS to the Steelers' time management which was terrible (use of time outs). The drive to bring the game to 25-22 should have been a situation for the no-huddle (about 7 minutes left). As a result it ate up at least a minute more than it should have which would have left more like 3 minutes for the final possession.


THORNS to the Steeler's offensive brain trust for again leaving Heath Miller out of the offense. Also, no throws to Antonio Brown.

THORNS to the Steelers' defense for coming up with exactly ZERO big plays.

THORNS to the Steeler's last drive. Third and five and they throw the ball 20 yards down field. Why? Fourth and 5 and they throw the ball 15 yards down field. Why?


THORNS to the stadium turf. At least five players slipped during the course of the game and three went out having simply fallen on it (two did not return).


THORNS to the Penguins for being shut out by the Caps earlier Sunday. I'm superstitious.


THORNS to me for talking trash for the past two weeks. But in my defense I had never done it before prior to a Steelers SB so I figured I deserved to be able to do so at least once in my life.