PATRIOTSFANINPA

O.K. You can give the Steelers credit for an amazing season against what was arguably the toughest schedule in the league but something that some people miss is the fact that this season is like 2005 when the Pats lost to the Broncos in the divisional round and Pittsburgh was able to avoid Belichick and his Patriots who are the Steelers kryptonite in the playoffs

2001 - Pittsburgh loses to New England in AFC Championship game

2004 - Pittsburgh loses to New England in AFC Championship game

2005 - Pittsburgh avoids having to face their playoffs daddy,the Patriots who lost to Denver in the previous week and goes on to win the AFC title and eventually the Super Bowl

2008 - Pittsburgh avoids having to face their daddy the Patriots who missed the playoffs and (???? TBD)

As we can clearly see the Steelers have taken advantage of avoiding having to play a Belichick led team in the playoffs and have capitalized on them to win one and probably two SB titles this decade

God,I wish we would have had a shot had we made the playoffs to see if our domination would have continued - I truly think we would have handled them again in a win or go home situation

tombonneau

If they win, they should be sure to send a ring to Bernard Pollard.

Dagg

The day he went down, I knew Pitt would be the favorite to go to the SB.

signbabybrady

The frustrating part to this though is that they wooped on us in the regular season this year and if we bring this up that will be thrown back in our face.

But I know if we played them again that same outcome would not be the case. I am not saying we would definitely beat them but that game was close in the first half and all hell broke lose to give them the lead and all hell broke lose to prevent us from trynig to make a comeback. And likely that perfect storm would not mix again but that only leaves wondering what if.


Too bad our boys had their heads up their asses on that rainy day because we could have been the ones heading to Tampa.

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the Patriot

Come on, now we're just dreaming. We've never seen Cassel in the playoffs. Did you see Polamalu yesterday!?! Because I didn't! He was too quick. There's not a doubt in my mind that Cassel would have succumbed to pressure and thrown him the ball at least once. A Brady-led team could pick apart this Steelers defense but Cassel, I'm skeptical.

PatsSox363804

That's the most annoying part to me, especially the one in 05 because I know we would have beat them in Foxborough. It's like the 80's Redskins never having to play the dynastic 49ers in their Superbowl runs.

swheeler23

The entire nfl season changed when Brady went down. Its not just me. Read Polamalu's comments about Brady in the Herald.

ScottieC

Any team that wins should send the guy a ring.

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PATRIOTSFANINPA

To be honest,The way our OL was playing early in the season it could have been ANY defensive player down the line to do the same thing to Brady,it was eventually going to happen sometime in Bradys career especially when we face those fierce pass rushing teams that our OL fails to execute to stop in many an instance in the past

Its rare when a starting player avoids the IR or an injury that sidelines a player several weeks when hes been in the league many years,It was going to happen,Brady was going to get hurt - We just did not know when.

The pass protection was terrible till the OL got it together around the midway point of the season when they settled down and played like a cohesive unit,If they played as well back in week 1 we very well might have been heading to Tampa

Now back to my original focus of this thread.....

LasVegasPatsFan

The only difference will be that the Cards will beat the Squelers. Better pray for the refs help like last time.