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If you could describe the Steelers season what term would you pick?
Here's mine..... Jekyll And Hyde
They lay an egg against SanDiego let alone in OUR house, then against all odds trap the Rats.
The difference between a 7-9 team and a 12-4 team is miniscule in the NFL. Obviously, a team that is 12-4 is "better" than a 7-9 team based on record and performance. My guess is that the 7-9 team was unable to make a handful or two of plays in a crucial moment of 3 or 4 games that cost them the season. The 12-4 team made those plays or didn't allow the other team to make them. Are the Ravens better? Not really, they played better in crucial moments. Are the Steelers better? Not really, they played poorly in crucial moments of crucial games.
Did one team have more injuries? Probably not, but the Ravens didn't have to play a game without Joe Flacco and the Steelers played three without Ben. The Steelers played 9 games without Troy and Ed Reed played the entire year.
The Ravens aren't better, they played better at the right time and that's a credit to them and a discredit to the Steelers inability to do the same.
Pappy
1.20 - JC Latham, OT, Alabama
2.51 - Xavier leggette, WR, South Carolina
3.84 - Sedrick Van-Pran Granger, OC, Georgia
3.98 - Andru Phillips, CB, Kentucky
4.119 - Maason Smith, DT, LSU
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"Football is a physical game, well, it used to be anyways" - Mel Blount
Dizz, my point was not that we are the better team. I acknowledged they are better in my post just before the one you responded to.
I was responding to the contention that their coach is their edge.
We played basically even with them not once but TWICE. With backup QBs. That is no one game fluke.
They have better talent than we have when we have a HEALTHY QB, we have no business playing them even twice with ancient backup.
You yourself mentioned how we have Flacco "figured out". That is in a sense attributing the victory directly to coaching. It sure aint talent.
Harbaugh did a great job, but if we swapped coaches, does anyone think we are in the SB due to Harbaugh, while the Ravens don't make the playoffs due to Tomlin?
Last edited by Captain Lemming; 02-01-2013 at 02:40 PM.
In view of the fact that Mike Tomlin has matched Cowhers record I give him the designation:
TCFCLTC-
The Coach Formerly Considered Less Than Cowher
I understand your points, but, bottom line, the Ravens are better in 2013. Not only did they find a way to win the div., but it is what they did AFTER in the play offs that proves they were superior. Let's see we did make the play offs with the team the way it was in 2012. Do you see us beating Indy (maybe) and then Denver and Pats on the road? I hardly see any chance of that. But Balt. pulled it off, and quite impressively, if we are being honest. The way they shut down Manning and Brady in the 2nd half of those games was quite impressive. Sure, they needed a deep bomb with 40 ticks left in Denver to get it to OT, but they did it. That's all that matters.
Read what I said again. THIS SEASON, Flacco made the plays he needed to for the Ravens to win games. Ben did not. THIS SEASON Flacco>Ben. You might dispute it. But throwing two critical INTs to end the season is not the definition of "clutch".
Never said Flacco was a better QB overall than Ben, because his is not.
I think the difference between the steelers and the ravens this past season was Leadership, Purpose and Resolve. Say what you want about Ray Lewis but he is the "straw that stirs the drink" for the ravens. Never has that been more evident than how that team has risen up to carry Ray out as a champion. The ravens played all season with hunger and deternination. We didn't! Our team played most of the season with no passion, pride or purpose. I also point to the raven victory as the best moment in our season when we did display some passion, pride and purpose.
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