stillers4me
12-03-2012, 05:41 AM
Whatever you do, don’t dare call Charlie Batch tough.
Not for this.
Don’t call Batch tough for standing tallest in the Steelers (http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/)’ 23-20 triumph over the Ravens on Sunday night at M&T Bank Stadium. Sure, it was a scintillating script — the beleaguered No. 3 quarterback driving through the despised archrival for a last-second score — but it was still just a football game. A child’s game.
Don’t call Batch tough for showing he’s still got that sharp arm and sharper sense that have kept him in the NFL for 15 years. This 25-of-36, 276-yard performance was 180 degrees from the Cleveland debacle, but as fellow old guy James Harrison put it after this one, “Nothing Charlie was going to do was going to surprise us.” Of course not. It was a mere matter of rust removal.
Don’t call Batch tough for throwing that block on the Ravens’ Cary Williams for Jonathan Dwyer’s 16-yard touchdown run that sparked the comeback. Dwyer called the block “amazing,” and he didn’t attach a QB asterisk. That’s how the play is designed.
Don’t even call Batch tough for weathering the two cheap shots that Baltimore’s once-proud defense felt necessary to take on the final drive — head shots by Haloti Ngata and Paul Kruger — to stop a man three days shy of his 38th birthday. As Mike Tomlin shrugged off, “Toughness comes with the job, for everybody who plays that position for us.”
He’s right. Quarterbacking is a job. And Batch did it better than any of us — I’ll raise my hand if you raise yours — had expected.
But if you want to know what makes Charles D’Donte Batch truly tough, you’ve got to understand that all he really achieved here was channeling his inner Homestead...............
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/dejankovacevic/dejancolumns/3061068-74/batch-tough-game-charlie-call-homestead-cleveland-job-steelers-sunday#ixzz2DzKVxYbg
Not for this.
Don’t call Batch tough for standing tallest in the Steelers (http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/)’ 23-20 triumph over the Ravens on Sunday night at M&T Bank Stadium. Sure, it was a scintillating script — the beleaguered No. 3 quarterback driving through the despised archrival for a last-second score — but it was still just a football game. A child’s game.
Don’t call Batch tough for showing he’s still got that sharp arm and sharper sense that have kept him in the NFL for 15 years. This 25-of-36, 276-yard performance was 180 degrees from the Cleveland debacle, but as fellow old guy James Harrison put it after this one, “Nothing Charlie was going to do was going to surprise us.” Of course not. It was a mere matter of rust removal.
Don’t call Batch tough for throwing that block on the Ravens’ Cary Williams for Jonathan Dwyer’s 16-yard touchdown run that sparked the comeback. Dwyer called the block “amazing,” and he didn’t attach a QB asterisk. That’s how the play is designed.
Don’t even call Batch tough for weathering the two cheap shots that Baltimore’s once-proud defense felt necessary to take on the final drive — head shots by Haloti Ngata and Paul Kruger — to stop a man three days shy of his 38th birthday. As Mike Tomlin shrugged off, “Toughness comes with the job, for everybody who plays that position for us.”
He’s right. Quarterbacking is a job. And Batch did it better than any of us — I’ll raise my hand if you raise yours — had expected.
But if you want to know what makes Charles D’Donte Batch truly tough, you’ve got to understand that all he really achieved here was channeling his inner Homestead...............
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/dejankovacevic/dejancolumns/3061068-74/batch-tough-game-charlie-call-homestead-cleveland-job-steelers-sunday#ixzz2DzKVxYbg