As the youngest coach to ever win a superbowl would say, “We are not the schedule makers. We go out and compete against the next group of men that are assigned to us. All 32 of these proffesional football teams are capable of winning a footbal game. This year we won that games that we needed to win to be succesful.”

Wow. This is hilarious.

You’re the biggest joke in the history of jokes.

Sprinkled it all over Deebo and Wood, only stoppable when HELD…

If you are going to throw out the "but in order to win it, you needed a interception for a touchdown, otherwise the game in my mind could have been over by the 3rd quarter " crap. We can go back and look at the Giants and Colts games – where if we don’t lose our long snapper or Ike doesn’t tip that long TD to Wayne and Ben throw two silly picks we could have had those over in the 3rd quarter.

Would we be legit Champions according to Becker?
Goes both ways Becker.

Unlike College, in the NFL the champions are decided ON the field. If the Titans were so great why didn’t they beat the lowly Ravens? If the Chargers were so over-rated how did the Mighty Mighty Colts lose to them even with a gift TD where the Chargers D was in a TV timeout while Wayne was streaking for a TD.

Your arguments are weak much like the team you root for, its fine if you want to hate the Steelers, but bring some facts to the table not your uneducated ignorant opinions.

Some Defensive Facts for you since you seem to be rather ignorant about our Def this year:

1. Overall Defense in Yds per Game, Pts Per game, Yds per play, Passing Yds Per game.
2. vs the Run, in # of sacks

There are more if you need them let us know.

But they weren’t that good? Look at the offensive ranks of the teams they played and look at what they did against the Steelers – we only played 5 teams in the bottom half (based on scoring as that is the one that matters) of Off (Hou, Cin, Clev, Jac, and Was) we did play Cin and Cle twice so that 7 of the 16 games were against ‘below avg’ offenses. Almost all of the others were held below their season AVG in almost every category. – oh yeah and that Bal team with no O was a top 5 rush team – what did they do in 3 games against the Steelers? NADA.

Youcan talk about the O and its less than spectacular performance overall this year – but talk about the D is going to get you in trouble and make you look dumb.

In order to steal something, someone else has to have it…

So, just who was the Super Bowl Champion that the Steelers stole the title from?

New England? Nope, the Steelers beat them — at home. The Dolphins? They couldn’t make it past a Baltimore team that the Steelers beat three times. To Colts? They lost to a Chargers team that The Steelers beat twice.

Just who do you think was supposed to be the AFC champion that the Steelers “stole” the title from?

I have to remind you that this is not the BCS. Your logic is faulty. Follow me because you obviously didn’t think before you posted this. Tennessee lost to the Ravens whom the Titans beat earlier in the year. The Cardinals beat the Eagles that who haneded their rearend to them earlier. How come the Titans didn’t beat a team they beat in the regular season? That’s all I have to say. gee whiz. Typical. It’s not our fault the Dolphins stink and can’t beat the Ravens. It’s also not our fault the Titans choked against a team we beat 3 times this year. If the Colts can’t beat the Chargers then who do you blame. When the playoffs came we beat all contenders. Good teams win when it counts. That’s why the Dolphins watched us win the Super Bowl. I’m sorry you’re hurt, but to be the man you have to beat the man and you can’t even beat the man that got beat.

“in reality, the last game of the season in which the Titans decided not to play and the Steelers did moreso than the Titans spoiled both teams stats (defensively) in an opposite fashion.”
Not really a fact.

you couldn’t beat any of the teams that actually made your schedule tough.
Baltimore would like to point out that this, too, is not actually a fact.

This year’s Steelers probably had one of the easiest roads to the Super Bowl in recent history
Tip: If it’s got the word ‘probably’ in, it’s probably not a fact.

a Ravens team… that would have lost to the Titans 9 out of every 10 times
Not a fact.

the game in my mind could have been over by the 3rd quarter
For ‘in my mind’, see ‘probably’.

So… no facts at all then. That’s cool, opinions are fine, but trying to pass them off as anything else is less clever.

Fortunately you’ve already clinched next year’s division.

I love the end of this “article”. We clinch the division by…beating out baltimore who handed the dolphins their backside?

If the steelers “weren’t that good this year” the dolphins must have sucked.

and they went 12-4. Yes, they lost 4 games to 4 very tough opponents. They beat Chargers twice, who beat the mighty Colts. Beat the Ravens 3 times (that’s an 11-5 team). Then beat Cardinals, who beat the Eagles, who beat the Giants.

So, do you have any sort of logic to your argument? It appears to be very lacking.

That says it all. They beat who they had to beat and that’s all ANY NFL team has to do. If other “tougher” teams didn’t get a shot at the Steelers, well that’s their problem.

There hasn’t been a perfect team since ’72 and ALL teams have flaws, matchups are matchups. Teams still have to go out and execute. End of story. The Giants, Eagles, Colts or whatever….they all lost.

Let’s not make excuses for these other teams….OH the Pats didn’t have Brady and if they did OOO OOO OOO. The steelers had major injuries to the O line and to FWP. We can go on and on with the What Ifs.

Any sports team goes through growth over the course of a season. Some teams grow, others go badly…due to injuries or whatever.

My point is, if you’re gonna say the Steelers couldn’t beat the Giants or Eagles and therefore weren’t as good…..well then you better be prepared to consider the fact that during that time period, the Steelers were a team that had major injuries and and O line that had to grow and compensate for that. By the same token, the Giants had lost Plaxico. So, would the Steelers beat the Giants a second time when they were in much better shape? Same thing for the Eagles. They’d have to play the game to find out. But I can guess pretty good that it would be a DIFFERENT kind of game.

Always makes for an entertaining thread.

I also love the “facts” of his “logic.”

1. The Steelers couldn’t beat any ot the teams that made the schedule tough…

Well, except for San Diego (twice), Baltimore (3 times), New England, and Dallas — all play-off contenders.

2. Steelers lost to the Eagles and “probably” wouldn’t have beat them in post-season

Yeah, because NO TEAM that lost to the eagles beat them in Post Season… oh…right, except for the Cardinals… Well, mabe he meant the Titans. Because no team that they beat in the regular season could have beat them in the post season… oh…wait… the Ravens did…

My favorite though was:

3. You needed an interception to win the Super Bowl…

Hmmm.. last I checked James Harrison was a Pittsburgh Steeler… whcih means the STEELERS MADE A PLAY. That’s like saying: “The Cardinals needed a touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to take the lead…”

So that these inane arguments are totally and completely meaningless.
 
I could make and argument about why the Titans or the Giants are the best team in football. Heck I could make an argument about why the Lions are the best team in football. But it doesn’t matter a whole lot. We aren’t playing for a higher BCS ranking, we aren’t playing for fantasy football points, or (as our coach likes to reminds us) style points. We definitely aren’t playing to build a reality television audience. We also aren’t playing to have a perfect season, win rushing titles, passing titles, pro-bowls, individual accolades or to win statement games.

The Steelers play to win Super Bowls. Its an imperfect science. It requires skill, resolve, cohesion, sacrifice (of personal goals for team goals), hard work, great coaching and yes a bit of luck.

But when you look at this team and what its done year in year out almost every year in the past decade to put themselves in position to win a Super Bowl, its hard to argue that they are not an elite franchise built to win Super Bowls.

to come onto a Steelers fan site and try to tell us we actually weren’t all that great.

The Steelers won the Superbowl meaning that they in fact are that good. You really don’t understand football at all. It doesn’t matter if your not the best statistically, which the Steelers were in many categories, but as long as you put up more points than the other team, you win. The Steelers were only handily beaten by two teams this year; the Eagles and Titans, while the other two losses came down to the wire and were just us having a bad day. The Giants game was ours to win, but then our long snapper’s knee collapsed, and we had no one to back him up. We effectively shut down some of the best offenses in all of football. And the Titans game I believe was the game were 21 of their 31 points were set up by Steeler turnovers. Then, when it mattered most, the Steelers played an incredible two minute drill and scored a touchdown for the ages. Bye Bye Beck4Mercy cause you won’t get any mercy here.

we may not be that good, yet we won the Super Bowl. It must be one of life’s connundrums that folks will never understand.

They’re just salty cuz it took them getting a STEELER to improve the team, a la #55.

I also think the poster is really Blitz and he’s checking to make sure we get still get all agitated when someone comes up with crap like this.

This sounds so familiar. The Seahawks said the same thing, last Superbowl. It’s “any given Sunday” – I believe that is what makes football exciting. No one stole anything. Stop with the excuses.

Yes, we played it out this way on purpose. After the refs not giving us the TD in the first quarter..
Tomlin: Ben, why don’t we scare everyone and wait until the last 30 seconds of the game, then we will have Holmes stand on his toes, like a ballet dancer, in the end zone and catch the ball between two Cardinals players. That way we can steal the Superbowl from the Cardinals.
Ben: Wow, that would be really exciting. Afterall, I don’t really care about Superbowl rings anyway.
NOT!

“Of the 7 hardest schedules in 2008, 6 teams had losing records. The Steelers were 15-4. They were consistently the best team in the NFL, from start to finish.”

So, if the Steelers weren’t that good, yet won the Super Bowl, how bad was the rest of the league this year? It must have been the worst year for the NFL in years.

Beck4Mercy…you’re a clown, get the fuck outta here. Go back to your shanty, pop in Ace Ventura Pet Detective, and think of a happy place…cuz the only way the Fins’ are going back to the Super Bowl, is in the movies…

…in order to win it, you needed a interception for a touchdown, otherwise the game in my mind could have been over by the 3rd quarter…

Good thing the refs gave us a 4th quarter, huh? That’s a special favor they do only for us.

All i can think of is that this guy is obviously a fan of his team. I would expect anyway.

So, he came up with several ridiculous reasons as to why our team isn’t all that good, but seeing as how our team won the super bowl we could probably come up with twice as many solid reasons as to why his team isn’t good at all.

BECK4Mercy, STFU!