FAN: More Game Musings

The luckiest man in the Stillers locker room yesterday? Mike Tomlin. Can you believe the call to not kick the field goal? For all that is good and holy, I can't get my head around the decision. We have floundered like a rainbow trout on the shores of the Youghiogheny River on 3rd and 4th short distance situations this year. I'll admit Russell has been doing an OK job lately, but for the year, we stink. Especially near the goal line. Especially when we run up the middle. So, what do we do? We run up the middle and get stuffed like a Thanksgiving Turkey. How about some play action? How about a fall down "block" by a tight end only to stand up and go in uncovered for a pass? How about, How about, How about........ I didn't like the call to go for it and I liked the play call even less. Now....all that being said, I criticized Bill Cowher plenty of times for kicking FGs when I thought he should go for it, but there is no way you criticize kicking the FG here. Sure, you can agree with trying to score the TD, but on the same note, you can't criticize taking the 3 when you need 10. His only excuse could be lack of confidence in Skippy Skeeve. Maybe he saw something in his kicker where he doubted him but I don't think that's the case. I think he got caught up in the action and wanted to vote with his heart instead of his head. No harm, no foul. Other things I remember from the game: As soon as I heard the announcers say there was a fight, I knew to look for Anthony Smith. I wish he'd get cut next year. He's a hothead. He's proven it time and time and time again. Ben is very elusive back there. I've never seen a guy that big be so elusive. He literally buys double time in the pocket which is good......but he'll also never have the "thousand-three" clock in his head that tells him to get rid of the ball. If we ant the occassional big play downfield off of a broken play, we'll have to live with the sacks. Trying to be tough with the cold backfired for Homo. He's not tough enough for that. You'd think being coached by The Michilin Man maybe he could have borrowed his coat on the sidelines. I thought Dallas did an awful lot of woofing and walking on defense after making pretty normal plays. Not sure about you, but I wish Ike Taylor would stop doing his little "window washer" move with his hand after he makes a play. It's annoying. Act like you were supposed to make the play, Ike. Along those lines, Santonio Holmes is starting to celebrate a bit much for my liking as well. Troy and Silverback don't celebrate their stellar plays, we don't need Ike Taylor doing it. Casey Hampton looksmad. He's turning it up a notch. I like it. Speaking of Holmes, why did he fair catch the one punt? Oh well......I simply want to destroy the Ravens this weekend.