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Monday, February 02, 2009

Magic Carpet Undone by Yellow Flags

With apologies to those of you who don't care about football...

You can't have 100 yards of penalties and beat a team that's more talented than you are.

The Cardinals had way too many stupid penalties. One particular drive, they had over 35 yards of penalties including a roughing-the-holder penalty on a field goal try that gave Pittsburgh another three shots at a touchdown.

They held them to a field goal, but here's the deal. By the time Pittsburgh had driven to 1st and Goal with roughly a minute left in the game, the Cardinals had already held them out of the end zone for nine plays inside their own ten yard line. Those were some tremendous defensive stands, but how many times can an average defense keep a good offense out of the end zone?

Apparently approximately nine times. The Steelers scored the winning TD and that's the ball game.

The Cardinals also had a number of holding penalties that killed drives on offense. I hated it for Warner that his interception at the end of the half hurt them so much. Couldn't somebody have tackled that guy...or at least pushed him out of bounds?

But it was a great game and a lot of fun to watch. And Pittsburgh isn't so deplorable that I'm miserable today...except that it's a long wait until August and the NFL kicking off the 2009-2010 season!

Meanwhile, time to get serious about college basketball. March Madness isn't but so far away.

Back to more important stuff tomorrow.

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