YOU KNOW, THERE are Sundays when it seems like everything goes your way. With the glorious Pittsburgh Steelers' 21-0 rout of the Seattle Seahawks, yesterday was one of those days. Consider me impressed with the power and the glory of yesterday's victory, which was even more impressive considering the following:
* Two of our best defensive players (Troy Polamalu and Casey Hampton) were sidelined due to injury.
* Our No. 1 and No. 2 receivers (Hines Ward and Santonio Holmes) were sidelined due to injury.
* Despite these things, our running game was spectacular.
* Despite these things, we completely stuffed the Seahawks' offense
* Our cornerbacks performed fantastic.
The day wasn't perfect, of course; San Francisco inexplicably failed to defeat the Baltimore Ravens, meaning the evil franchise from the Free State remains just one game behind the Steelers in the AFC North. While their schedule has a few tough games in it (New England, Indianapolis) there are enough easier games to require that Pittsburgh keep its foot on the gas throughout the season. This also makes defeating the evil Ravens even more important to our divisional and playoff hopes.
But we can deal with that later. Right now, we can savor our victory over Seattle.
21-0. Beautiful.
Posted by Benjamin Kepple at October 8, 2007 09:07 AM | TrackBack