how do you suppuse the steelers would have scored more points if the game was called correctly?
anyway. the 2 minutes drills they failed to get together are baffling. they were the best team in the league under 2 minutes. they had scoring drives in each of the first 8 games after the two minutes warnign of either half. that includes in jacksonville and washington and against dallas and atlanta. so thats not really a stat you can blame on ease of schedule.
other than that, the seahawks didnt play a terrible game. they played as well as the steelers did. other than the randle el pass, the mcdonaldsberger scramble and pass to hines ward, and the parker td run, the steelers did nothing. at all. the parker run was a collapse of the d-line for us. the two passes most likely would have been batted down if we hadnt had 2 third string players in the secondary. both passes beat Pruitt. dont know who he is? i didnt either. hes barely played in any games this year.
stevens was, i think, the only player to drop a catch. he dropped 3.
you cant deny how well the seahawks stopped the steelers in the first half, and even in a lot of the second. the steelers played bad. and the seahawks played bad. unfortunately, they played just a tad worse on defense.
had both teams played their A games, and had the game been officiated properly, it would have been a different outcome.