There were plenty of chances to put this one away. Rdogers was off during the 1st half and receviers dropped a lot of the balls that were on target. Spot on assesment of Hawk. He can play the run, not the pass. Can’t understand why Poppinga got so much playing time.

And then, there’s Crosby. I hope soon it’ll be, there goes Crosby.

DaveK, it’s complicated to think about who to root for. I think I generally agree with you, though one reason we may in fact root for the Vikes this coming week is that they win one more and AZ is elimintated from possible (though slim) chances of nabbing home field advantage – which may encourage them to go with back-ups in the final game against us. We really want AZ to have nothing to play for because I think at the moment, our best chance of getting in is to just win both games – because I’d say there is a pretty good chance the NYG and Dallas win their remaining games.

The final drive by Pitt was frustrating to watch. On at least one play Ii watched the d-linemen get penetration and then pull back. The announcers said that it looked like the Packers were in a defense designed to keep the QB in the pocket (i.e. trying to prevent flushing him and letting him run for a first down). That (if correct) is incredibly stupid. Is Big Ben a running threat? Not really and as long as we kept him in bounds it would be great if he ran. Why would you intentionally give the QB 5 plus seconds to throw? Anyone can find someone with time.

Moving forward….The Redskins could make it easy on us tonight by beating the Giants. Best case scenario is that the Giants lose, Packers beat Seattle, and the Packers get a rest game against the Cardinals.

Root for the Skins tonight.

Root for the Eagles against Denver. They might catch MN for the #2 seed and its better if they win the division instead of Dallas.

Root for the Bears next Monday against MN. We want the Vikings game against the Giants to actually mean something.

In the end though, the more I reflect on it, the more resignation I have to the fact that we were beaten ultimately by a super clutch QB. That throw to Wallace was absolutely phenomenal. Only Wallace could have caught that ball and frankly, as questionable a decision as it was to have Bell in the game, his coverage on Wallace was pretty tight, he just didn’t make the play. Hard, hard loss to watch. I hope it ends up just firing up this team to win these last two and regain the momentum we’ll need for the playoffs.

“On the final Steelers touchdown from Ben Roethlisberger to Mike Wallace, CB Josh Bell was supposed to play underneath Wallace at all costs. Packers had three deep safeties on the play.”

Obviously that didn’t happen. Bell also had the penalty when Jenkins came up with the sack. Between his 2 huge miscues, Bush’s general crappy play, and Mason’s miss, we watched a W float away.

I think that the Packer WR need to stop complaining about Finley getting the ball so much and perhaps catch a few of the balls that some their way. Too many dropped balls. I know that Aaron overthrew a few times, but I also saw WR getting hit on the numbers and the ball falling to the ground.

What happened to the run game? I thought December/cold weather games were ideal for the run?

Aaaron took some big hits today. I’m so afraid that if he gets hurt, the team sinks. I don’t have confidence that Matt Flynn would be able to lead the team.

Who is Joshua Bell and what was he doing covering Mike Wallace on that last play?

If anyone can answer these questions, I’d appreciate it.