We thoroughly outplayed another team yet only won by 7. Although the win was nice (I hate the Steelers so beating them is always good), I'm seeing a trend where we seem to outplay a squad, look up and see there's still a need to put them away.
I thought Foster wore down after the first 1-1/2 quarters other than the TD run. Of course, part of that was the o-line wearing down too and not opening the holes we saw early. We really need Ward back to give Foster more rest.
Schaub misfired a lot in the second half. Yes, he avoided his patented WTF interception but he made his receivers have to make tough catches on easy throws.
Phillips wisely dialed up the blitzes early and often, realizing the Steelers were vulnerable. Jason Allen, despite being beat several times, actually had good coverage several times and was the victim of back-shoulder completions he could do nothing about.
Say what you want about "untimely penalties". Some of them were deserved but most of them seemed to be ones the Steelers would have gotten away with had the uniforms been switched. Then we'd be hearing CBS tell us what good "no calls' they were since they didn't impact the play. I'm sick of watching the refs bailing out the Steelers.
Gold stars to the OL and DL. They truly won the game and dominated.
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