The anatomy of a Super Bowl loss

[lithera]

First, I would like to say congrats to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Especially Jerome Bettis. The man is a class act and if we had to lose, I don't mind him winning.

Here is what I've taken away from the game -

1. Dropped passes. There were at least four dropped passes that would have made the difference in the game. Had Jerramy Stevens converted on any one of them... You can't win a game when you let that many balls slip through your fingers.

2. Uncaught punt. What the heck was up with that? It wasn't a huge play but it was an example of us not really being in the game after a certain point. It got scattered and lost.

3. Inability to convert. We just didn't. There were plays where we should have scored, in fact would have scored in just about any other game I've watched this season and we didn't.

4. Officiating. It was bad. It was just bad. I cannot believe that those officials were the best of the best. There were so many calls that were just awful.... *makes a face*

Again. Congrats Pittsburgh.

Comments

[grocible.livejournal.com]

Offensive pass interference negating the touchdown - bad call.

Ben's rushing TD - the review was correct in that there wasn't enough evidence to over turn the initial call. The initial call was what was bad.

The holding penalties - everytime Seattle had a good play, it seemed they had a hold as well.

Clock management - what the hell was up at the end of the two halves? Seattle looked like they had no idea what they were doing.

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Seattle outplayed the Steelers, but combining two huge plays by the Steelers, and the Seahawks shooting themselves in the foot at the end of the half, was what ultimately made them lose this game.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I meant to put clock management on there and I didn't. The two minute drill was just bad on our part.

[grocible.livejournal.com]

Clock management will also kill a good time - always.

It hurt the Colts earlier, and it hurt the Seahawks today.

[xnbach.livejournal.com]

The fact that Stevens couldn't catch a damn thing certainly didn't help, but the fact that the refs basically took away a Seahawks touchdown on a very minor penalty, and took them off the five yard line for something even the announcers said never happened while awarding a touchdown to the Steelers for planting the ball on the green and then moving it into the endzone is why we lost.

That 10-21 should have been more like 17-14