stillers4me
01-14-2011, 05:12 AM
It started in the first game, this season-full of spectacular moments, and it started the way it always does with Troy Polamalu, with a play rooted in instinct but based on what he had been watching, what he had been studying, all day.
Late in the season opener against the Atlanta Falcons, Polamalu went to defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau and asked him to call something that would allow him to make a play on wide receiver Roddy White, who had tortured the Steelers with 13 catches. Most of White's catches were to the right sideline, in the direction of cornerback Bryant McFadden.
So, with 1:45 remaining in a game that was tied, 9-9, Polamalu struck the way he always seems to strike -- making a play in extraordinary fashion. On first-and-10 from the Atlanta 21, anticipating the same sideline throw to White, Polamalu broke from the hash marks on quarterback Matt Ryan's pass and made a lunging interception at the Falcons 30, looking more like Jerry Rice than a 215-pound safety the way he toe-tapped the turf near the sideline stripe.........................
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11014/1117785-66.stm
Late in the season opener against the Atlanta Falcons, Polamalu went to defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau and asked him to call something that would allow him to make a play on wide receiver Roddy White, who had tortured the Steelers with 13 catches. Most of White's catches were to the right sideline, in the direction of cornerback Bryant McFadden.
So, with 1:45 remaining in a game that was tied, 9-9, Polamalu struck the way he always seems to strike -- making a play in extraordinary fashion. On first-and-10 from the Atlanta 21, anticipating the same sideline throw to White, Polamalu broke from the hash marks on quarterback Matt Ryan's pass and made a lunging interception at the Falcons 30, looking more like Jerry Rice than a 215-pound safety the way he toe-tapped the turf near the sideline stripe.........................
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11014/1117785-66.stm