I haven’t looked at the TD totals for a while, but apparently Burress has 6 TDs, the Steelers wide receivers have 12. Hines Ward himself has 10. Roethlisberger has an equal number of TDs to all wide receivers as Eli Manning.
OK, although they each have had only one possession, Steelers are lookin’ good! (So it is only 3-0, they still look good!) 
Go Pittsburg!
Randy Cross really wants the Vikings to win this one. What a cocksucker! If you can’t do your job right, get the fuck out of the booth.
Woohoo, woohoo! We really needed that interception!
(Randy Cross is a loser.)
Is there some mechanism by which one can tell CBS to do some quality control of their broadcasters?
What’d he say about the blocked field goal? I don’t get to see the Steelers this week. Instead, I got the Colts-Chargers (good game) and the Panthers-Saints game (sucks ass.)
And how about that safety? Has Cross shut up yet?
He placed all the blame on the kicker, and again mispronounced von Oelhoffen (he keeps wanting him to be “van” Oelhoffen). Not in and of itself a big thing, but typically for him the Vikings get all the credit. If they fail to convert a third down, Johnson did a good job getting rid of it. If it is nearly picked off, the DB does a great job breaking it up, even if he doesn’t actually touch the ball.
sorry, make that “the receiver does a great job breaking it up…”
Woohoo! Woohoo! We win AND we are still in the running for a wild card spot!
Acknowledged.
Great job Steelers! I told my BIL (the Steelers fan) that the Giants would beat the Chiefs if the Steelers would beat the Vikings. His response? “Deal.”
Good to see it come true. Now if I could only have the Cowboys and Redskins tie…
Interesting playoff scenarios.
- We win our final two, we are the wild card. Period.
- If we win one of the final two, and San Diego wins one of the final two (it doesn’t matter which), we are the wild card.
- If we win one of our last two, the Chiefs win out, and San Diego loses they’re last two, we LOSE the wild card to the Chiefs.
- We lose both of the last two, we lose the Wild Card, because either San Diego or KC will win next week (they play each other). If SD wins next week and we lose our remaining two, SD will win the WC. If KC wins against SD, and then both lose the final game, we tie with KC, who will own the tiebreak (conference record).
So: If we finish tied with SD for the wild card, we win the tie break. If we finish in a 3-way tie for the wild card with Kansas City and SD, we MAY win, depending on who wins the game next week. (If KC wins, they might be able to win the tiebreak with SD, which would put them against us, which we lose).
However, that said…we have a pretty easy remaining schedule, and if we play well, we should win out and clinch the playoff spot. SD has a very tough final two games (KC and Denver), and KC has a tough schedule with SD and Cincinnatti. Concievably, even with one loss, we could still pick up the WC, but let’s not hope for that. I have to say…if we can’t beat Cleveland and Detroit with a playoff trip on the line, we don’t deserve to be in the playoffs anyway.
I just think our defense is too suspect to go far at all, even if we do end up with the wild card. We can’t generate enough pressure on the quarterback and allow way too many third down conversions.
And I still have no idea why we stay with Parker as our primary back and don’t even dress Staley. Parker is like a slot machine - he pays off just often enough to keep you there, but you’ll end up broke if you stay with him. The only reason why this wasn’t more evident against the Bears was because they allowed us to convert third and long more than anyone else has. Otherwise, Parker’s going to get you lots of no gains and one yards before he breaks a big one. That means lots of punting. Give me three yards and a cloud of dust, and third and 4 or 5 any day. That’s Steeler football.
And fuck Randy Cross with a fully inflated football.
Even if the Steelers can win the first round, they’d then have to take on the Colts in Indianapolis. As much as I like the Steelers, I don’t think they can beat the Colts, especially after already losing to them in Pittsburgh.
Well, actually we lost to the Colts in Indianapolis - after which the first mention of the RCA Dome pumping in noise started.
Shoot. Why did I think that was a home game?
Well, my point still stands. I don’t see the Steelers making it past the divisonal.
This is not entirely accurate–most worryingly the first scenario. You assume Jacksonville wins its last two games. If the Jags should lose one of the two, they would fall into a tie with us. If San Diego also keeps pace with us and wins their last two that would create a three way tie between us, San Deigo, and Jacksonville in which case we become the NFL’s first 11-5 team to miss the playoffs.
This is particularly worrysome because if Jacksonville wins next week, they will have clinched. Cincy has already won the division. That gives both teams incentive to rest their starters in the the last games of the season, allowing the Jags to lose and the Chargers to beat a resting Cincy. Such a scenario boots us from the playoffs. Next week’s KC-SD game is crucial, if KC wins at home and we keep pace, then we no longer have to worry about the Jags.
Hopefully Jacksonville will not lose, considering their last two games are the Texans and the Titans. Still, it’s worrying if SD continues to win, hopefully KC will knock them off at home. To think–that Tommy Maddox fumble in overtime against Jax (plus his many interceptions) may ultimately be the deciding factor that keeps us out of the playoffs in the tiebreaker.
Yeah, it’s a bit strange that Pittsburgh beats out SD on the two-way tiebreaker but loses out on the three team Pitt-SD-Jax tiebreaker, but that looks like how it would go. There may be the strange situation where an otherwise meaningless game between Jax, who have clinched, and Tennessee, who are out, will determine whether SD or Pitt makes the playoffs. And Jax-Tenn is a late game, too, so SD and Pittsburgh might already be in at 11-5.
It’s the Broncos that the Chargers play, but the point is the same. Cincy plays KC.
The only silver lining vis a vis the issue of Cincinnati taking the last game easy is that, if I’m reading things right, they could still be competing with Denver for a first round bye. That would seem like a worthwhile goal in my book.
As far as Maddox having lost us our shot at the playoffs: Yes, blame him. And blame Cowher for being so obstinate about changing quarterbacks when any idiot can see it is necessary. Blame him for treating that game and the Baltimore game as games we could coast through and rest people. Blame him for putting Duce in street clothes. Get rid of Whisenhunt and (I hate to say it) Cowher too. Too much stupidity ruining the success of too many talented Steeler teams in the past decade and a half.
Maybe you were thinking of the Patriots game? (That one was at Heinz Field, right?)