Fuck sportswriters

At least once a season, I have to step back and marvel at how dumb most sportswriters are. I don’t know why I never learn my lesson and think that they can understand what they see because it happens EVERY fucking year. So welcome to the 2007 NFL season because a giant cloud of stupid ness descended down upon sportswriters everywhere after the 31-28 Steelers loss last Sunday night.

I’m sure they watched at least the first half of the game because they had no problem at all pointing out that the Steelers came out passing and made some mistakes that let Denver get up on them. But I wonder if they all went to bed at half time and missed the real reason we lost?

In case you don’t know, popular opinion among the “experts” is that Pittsburgh lost the game because we came out passing against a defense that was last place against the run. Most thought that if we ran it we would just pound it down their throats and easily win the game. So the mistakes in execution of the already ill planned passing game led to turnovers which put us down and forced us to keep passing and we were not playing Steelers football and blah, blah, blah.

Maybe these guys were too busy jotting notes down about how Tomlin fucked this one up with his game plan or tallying turnovers to notice that our defense couldn’t stop anything Denver was doing. Maybe they don’t understand that turnovers aren’t the end of the world if you treat it like a challenge and come up big on defense, holding the offense scoreless as a result.

And maybe they missed the entire second half of the game. The part where the Steelers offense came back and just scored touchdowns like they were cashing paychecks. You know the part: the one where every other time we scored, our defense allowed Denver to come right back and score.

With 1:09 left on the clock, the Steelers scored the game tying touchdown on another great drive by Ben Roethlisberger. All we had to do was keep Denver on their side of the 50 yard line and we could go to OT and stomp those fuckers. But yet again, the defense let them walk right up the field and hammer home the kill shot in the form of a Jason Elam field goal. Game over. 31-28.

The Steelers defense allowed 24 points in that game. I’m sorry but that is not acceptable by the standards we hold true for a Steelers defense. If you consider the offense scored 21 points (I’ll deduct 7 from their total since they allowed a score) you need to assume the defense can hold an opponent to under that total. A true Steelers D should not be allowing 20+ points in any game. These so called sportswriters that claimed we didn’t play Steelers football because we didn’t come out running seemed to forget that even more than a running game Steelers football is about defense. And they dropped the ball in this game. That’s what lost it for us.

Yeah, I know it’s hard to play in Mile High Stadium. Yeah, I know it’s hard when one of the best defensive ends in football is injured at the beginning of the game. So I’m willing to forgive them as long as they come out this weekend, stick it to the Bungles, and show that it was just a momentary lapse. My point is not to crucify the defense. My point is to illustrate how poorly these professionals broke down the root cause of the loss.

It just wasn’t the national bozos either. The local Pittsburgh articles I read seemed to be fueled by the same Kool Aid guzzling. That’s even more pathetic because at least those guys should get it right since it is their full time job to cover the Steelers. I’m looking at you, Ed Bouchette, you fucking hack.

Seems to me the real motive here was to try to take Mike Tomlin down a notch. He was doing so well in his first season that I have to think people were just waiting to show that he’s not perfect. It’s his fault because he got too cute and didn’t just stick to basic Steelers football and take advantage of our great running game and their awful running defense, blah, blah, blah. The most hysterical part of all this is that if we would have won the game in a convincing manner (which we easily could have with that exact game plan), everyone would have called him a genius for coming out there and going against the grain.

I guess only Mr. Genius, Bill Belicheck* is allowed to game plan in the NFL these days. Every other coach is just a fucking idiot.

So sportswriters everywhere (except the 20% of you that are good – Jeffri Chadiha I’m looking at you now), please pull The New England Patriots’ cock out of your mouth long enough to watch the whole game next time.

-David

* I don’t even respect this fucktard enough to spell check his stupid name.