Lady Steel
12-08-2014, 12:50 AM
CINCINNATI -- As the baddest wordslinger among the exclusive faculty of NFL head coaches, Mike Tomlin does not choose his verbs indiscriminately, and one that he selected late in his postgame news conference Sunday was, let us say, acutely instructive.
How was it, someone wanted to know, that the Steelers battered defense managed to keep this mission afloat in a game when it was leaking yards by the hundreds and big plays by the half-dozen, representing nothing so much as the football equivalent of a capsizing tub on the windswept Ohio.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/gene-collier/2014/12/07/Gene-Collier-Steelers-defense-leans-on-short-memory/stories/201412080081
How was it, someone wanted to know, that the Steelers battered defense managed to keep this mission afloat in a game when it was leaking yards by the hundreds and big plays by the half-dozen, representing nothing so much as the football equivalent of a capsizing tub on the windswept Ohio.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/gene-collier/2014/12/07/Gene-Collier-Steelers-defense-leans-on-short-memory/stories/201412080081