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LLT
10-08-2012, 06:30 AM
By Dejan Kovacevic
Monday, October 8, 2012



Mike Tomlin’s voice, a hot knife through butter wherever he walks and talks, fairly sliced through the Steelers’ noisy locker room.

“Six! Where’s Six?”

Shaun Suisham, already out of his No. 6 jersey and almost out the door, whirled back.

When the coach barks, any player listens.

When the coach barks at the kicker after the kicker just boots a 34-yard field goal to beat the Eagles, 16-14, on the most critical Sunday at Heinz Field this early in the season in many moons ... well, that player eagerly listens.

“Good job,” Tomlin told Suisham, bringing out the smile of a kid on Christmas morning.

That’s how it works in the Steelers’ world. There’s no complaining after victories, no matter how much complaining might swirl around them.

It’s always Christmas.

Fretting over Willie Colon’s golden sombrero of holding calls, over bonehead head shots by Ryan Clark and Ryan Mundy, over Mike Wallace being gobbled up by press coverage again, over the defense getting drip-drip-dripped in allowing another late touchdown drive, even over injuries to Troy Polamalu and LaMarr Woodley … all that’s for the film room.

It’s for the coaches on Monday, not for the players on Sunday.


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suitanim
10-08-2012, 10:05 AM
Funny...in the gameday thread, there were several who said "3 means nothing here" when we had to settle for our second FG. That literally makes no sense. Without that 3 to make it 13 points, we need a TD on that last drive to win instead of a FG.