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Originally Posted by Fincuan
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very sloppy game.
good game.... but
very sloppy mostly on the part of the cardinals.
The cardinals got lucky on
one TD which closed the gap but it was too little too late.
I don't doubt the cardinals are a skilled team which had a great season... but they failed to bring their "A-Game" to Tampa tonight.
The steelers were obviously the superior and dominant team in this game, they knew what they had to do, they knew what players to watch, and how to exploit the cardinals' weaknesses. The cardinals on the other hand seemed completely unprepared and unfocused.
The cardinals played a sloppy first half and made way too many costly mistakes in the opening exchange of blows.
how many holding calls do we have to see against the cardinals??? this is the super bowl... these are professional sports teams for crying out loud, these guys should have been more or less broken of that habit by the time they made their sophomore years in high school or at least college ball!!! You should not be surrendering that type of yardage in a game of this magnitude and importance.
i know there is a high desire to be aggressive but there is no excuse for that many penalty calls in the first half of play alone.
Kurt Warner was completely shut down by the Steelers defense from the very beginning.
Big Ben Roethlisberger and his team knew exactly what they came to tampa to do tonight and that was - TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL!
The cardinals... they just showed up for a football game.
its true that great players like Larry Fitzgerald step up to make big plays when it counts.
But
great teams can usually ensure that such heroics arent required by clinching the win early.