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zulater
02-07-2011, 12:42 PM
The Steelers were in such dissaray on their final possession that I could have sworn it was the Donavan McNabb led Eagles I was witnessing. Players not knowing where to line up, not knowing the call. And Ben not even being aware he had a time out left when he took the field? Even if Ben had found a check down and got the first down yardage on one of those final passes we still would have run out of clock long before hitting paydirt by the looks of things. What the hell, you don't have your two minute offense down pat by the Super Bowl! :huh:

http://www.necn.com/02/07/11/Curran-Roethlisberger-cant-establish-gre/landing_sports.html?blockID=405428&feedID=6097

Roethlisberger did. And he went down unprepared. Sitting at the podium Sunday night, he didn’t even know how many timeouts the Steelers had.

“It’s disappointing to lose, but it’s more disappointing to let other people down . . . ” said Roethlisberger, who finished 25-of-40 for 263 yards with two touchdown passes and two costly picks, both of which led to Packers touchdowns. “I turned the ball over. You can’t do that. [Starting the final drive] you feel pretty good, you like your chances. We had one timeout or no timeouts. It was gonna be tough but we never stopped believing.”

Why the throws into the middle of the field and the apparent time wasting?

“They did a great job of taking away deep things and taking away the outside,” Roethlisberger explained. “We stuck with very limited options there with that much time and no timeouts left.”

Told that they did have a timeout, Roethlisberger shrugged.

“If I had played a little bit better, I feel like we would have had a better chance to win the game,” Roethlisberger sighed. Yeah. Probably.

Roethlisberger is an excellent player. A unique player. But the “it’s not always pretty, draw-it-up-in-the-sand approach” doesn’t float when you’re operating like that on the final drive of the Super Bowl. And that’s what it felt like.

Roethlisberger has given his teammates and the football-watching public plenty of reason to think that the Packers were in trouble when he began the final Steelers drive.

“I was like, ‘Here we go again,’ " said Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians. “But it didn’t happen. We were scrambling a little bit because we lost Emmanuel [Sanders, one of Pittsburgh’s wideouts]. Guys were in a little bit different positions and we lost a little bit of time to set up.”

oneforthetoe
02-07-2011, 12:54 PM
Roethlisberger is an excellent player. A unique player. But the “it’s not always pretty, draw-it-up-in-the-sand approach” doesn’t float when you’re operating like that on the final drive of the Super Bowl. And that’s what it felt like.

It worked pretty well two years ago.

zulater
02-07-2011, 12:56 PM
It worked pretty well two years ago.

Yeah, but that's ancient history today. Obviously this is something they need to look long and hard at this offseason and look to correct things.

tube517
02-07-2011, 01:26 PM
Yeah, they looked lost on the final drive. Oh well. I erased it from my DVR. I hate losing.

Time to watch porn.

steelreserve
02-07-2011, 01:30 PM
That last possession counts as a "drive?"

XxKnightxX
02-07-2011, 01:34 PM
Yeah, they looked lost on the final drive. Oh well. I erased it from my DVR. I hate losing.

Time to watch porn.

Same thought and actions my friend, lmao.

zulater
02-07-2011, 01:36 PM
That last possession counts as a "drive?"

Good point.

KeiselPower99
02-07-2011, 03:24 PM
When we had the ball with 2 minutes left I couldnt have been more confident that Ben would bring us back. I understand why the TO wasnt used(long completion down the middle of the field) But when you come out of the huddle and the receivers look lost like Wallace did thats when it shouldve been used.