Steelers played well enough to win, but had me worried playing prevent and allowing jets back into the game. Good on the jets for a valiant come back effort, but too little too late.

As for the fumble/incomplete pass argument, the point is moot! If it was a fumble, steelers ball, if it was a pass attempt, the ball went backwards, therefore a live ball and steelers recover.

Roughing the kicker, running into the kicker….. The jets player obviously made contact with the kicker while he was vulnerable . Roughing or running into the kicker would have resulted in a first down as it was 4th and less than 5.

Jets long drive in the 4th that resulted in no points was ridiculous ! Could they have taken more time off the clock? God bless them for helping the steelers cause!

Congrats to green bay, they are a good squad. SB should be a great game . My prediction: steelers 27, packers 24

GO STEELERS!

Double standard.

GO STEELERS!!

Just before half, :29 seconds left with one timeout remaining and 3rd and 1, the Jets decided to go for the endzone (and missed). Then they kicked a field goal on the subsequent 4th and 1.

Would the better option not have been to get the first down via qb sneak or a run and use that timeout to stop the clock with :25 seconds or so remaining. Then, with 1st and 10, they could have taken 3 legitamate shots at the endzone and then kicked the same field goal if need be?

They gave away 3 plays that they could have had for free and a potential 4 more points.

@trickbunny:
so on a 4th and 4 am i to understand you correctly that a “running into the kicker” penalty would NOT have resulted in a first down. check the rules and get back to me on that one..also, didnt that drive end in an interception? followed by a 3 and out by the jets? anymore conspiracy theories you need blown out of the water, let me know…i’ll be here

gregmorris78 says:
Jan 24, 2011 10:43 AM

Roughing the kicker call was lame.

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You need to explain this one… He hit the kicker without touching the football. Pretty cut and dry.
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“Contacting the kicker”, yes.

“Roughing the kicker”, no freakin way, not even close.

The Steelers went into clock killing mode near the end of the first half. As soon as they needed to crank it back up to seal off the game over the last 3 minutes they moved the ball 40-50 yards with ease. If I recall, the Packers offense did jack after the middle of the 2nd quarter. The Bears defense is good, but NOT Steelers good.

gregmorris78 says:
Jan 24, 2011 10:43 AM

Roughing the kicker call was lame.

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You need to explain this one… He hit the kicker without touching the football. Pretty cut and dry.
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Is there not still a penalty difference between “roughing” the kicker and “running into” the kicker?

Pretty hilarious that they gave the maximum penalty to someone who’s hand touched the top of the kickers foot- and nothing else. If that’s a 15-yard-and 1st-down “roughing” the kicker penalty, I guess the 5-yard “running into” penalty must be something like accidentally brushing the kicker’s shoelace with your pinky.

Thanks to the punters great acting job/flop, the refs found a convenient way to keep a drive alive for the Steelers. Same old same old.

#2 The rule is the rule – that was a roughing the kicker call all the way!

#3 nice to see the Refs did catch both teams w/ pass interference on the WR’s when it got called

#4 I ABSOLUTELY believe that the confusion?! was designed once they got to the goal line. Watch Sanchez attempt to look confused. If somebody was a mathematician they could get us a stat when a QB (especially young) looks confused …he ‘hands the ball off’ …yet at the last moment with play clock winding down and QB seems to be barking ….he got right under center and snapped the ball – fast and wanted to catch the Steelers sleeping with a edge or quick out pass. Didn’t work – the ruse didn’t get executed. Steelers all 11 stayed to their lanes and positions

#5 And this belief that S. Greene should have carried the 4th down run ….anybody remember Farrior blasting him on that 3rd down run. HE crumpled him with that face on face – beast hit to stop him cold. I don’t like LT ….but in that set he probably was in due to the threat of running or catching if Sanchez came out on a bootleg play action pass ….

#6 Don’t see how Ben is being blamed for the fumble in the end zone which resulted in safety when he was playing with the back-up center Legursky who did an admirable job due to Pouncey getting injured.

#7 Steelers WON, Black & Gold goes back to
Super Bowl !!! Justice

First half they had 1 rushing yard, Braylon and Holmes had zero catches.

Yeah that would lead to some heat on the o-coordinator.

Rex does need to apologize for the lack of effort his team came out with. It sure looked like they were still recovering from their superbowl, I mean divisional win in NE! That’s the coaches fault plain and simple!

Steeler fan here. In regards to the fumble I thought during replay it could have home either way. One thing to note though is the path of the ball. Even if sanchez’s arm was going forward the ball traveled behind him, meaning it was not a forward pass, thus a fumble.

And you could see Sanchez yelling at the sideline to get the play in! Right as they did that, they turned the camera to the sideline and Schottenheimer was talking to another coach! He wasn’t even calling a play in to Sanchez! Guy deserves to get some heat here.

Roughing the kicker call was lame.

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You need to explain this one… He hit the kicker without touching the football. Pretty cut and dry.