NFL Touchdown Super Bowl Snide Remarks
By Andy Benoit, www.NFLTouchdown.com
This goes down as the second greatest Super Bowl of all time. Super Bowl XLII still has the edge because of the magnitude of the Giants upset and New England’s perfect season.
At around the fourth quarter’s 2:30 mark, I found myself praying that this game wouldn’t go to overtime. The worst thing that could happen for the league would be to have the game go to an extra period and be decided on the first possession.
Santonio Holmes was spectacular Sunday, but Ben Roethlisberger was the Most Valuable Player. Just about every one of Holmes’s catches was a result of Roethlisberger somehow extending the play. Big Ben was simply a magician. He has now joined Peyton Manning and Tom Brady on the NFL’s top tier of quarterbacks.
For the Cardinals…it was a great run. They had an opportunity to win this game, but their secondary wasn’t able to manufacture any big plays. Domonique Rodgers-Cromartie was a huge reason this team reached the Big Game. On the surface, it seems that his struggles Sunday night were a huge reason his team came up short, as well. But thanks to Roethlisberger’s magnificence, Rodgers-Cromartie was asked to hold his coverage for a drastically extended period of time. And he didn’t get a whole lot of help from his safeties.
The Kurt Warner Hall of Fame debate is going to be extremely interesting. I think the fact that Warner has been insanely prolific in all three of his Super Bowl appearances will get him in. But there may be some voters who hold onto the memory of his to James Harrison interception at the end of the first half.
Speaking of that James Harrison interception….it was one of the greatest plays in NFL history. Earlier this year in a Monday Night game, Cleveland’s Brandon McDonald picked off Donovan McNabb in the end zone at the end of the first half and nearly ran it back as time expired. But he didn’t I happened to be sitting up in the Monday Night booth for that game and asked Ron Jaworski at halftime if he’d ever seen a play like that. I was surprised when he said No. That’s the first thing I thought of when Harrison reached the end zone to end the half in this game. Not only was this an incredibly rare play for a Super Bowl – this was an incredibly rare play for a football game.
A little tidbit that no one seemed to notice after the game was Harrison saying to Andrea Kramer that the Steelers had called a max blitz for that play, but that he figured Warner would release the ball quickly, so he decided to drop back. Dick LeBeau was lauded for the play-call, but it sounds like the NFL Defensive Player of the Year just improvised.
You could easily make a case for Harrison as the Super Bowl MVP. Besides the huge interception return, he also collapsed Warner’s pocket all night, and drew three holding penalties from left tackle Mike Gandy. LaMarr Woodley was equally as dominant on the right side.
A few more notes on the Steelers…
Continue reading at www.NFLTouchdown.com
This goes down as the second greatest Super Bowl of all time. Super Bowl XLII still has the edge because of the magnitude of the Giants upset and New England’s perfect season.
At around the fourth quarter’s 2:30 mark, I found myself praying that this game wouldn’t go to overtime. The worst thing that could happen for the league would be to have the game go to an extra period and be decided on the first possession.
Santonio Holmes was spectacular Sunday, but Ben Roethlisberger was the Most Valuable Player. Just about every one of Holmes’s catches was a result of Roethlisberger somehow extending the play. Big Ben was simply a magician. He has now joined Peyton Manning and Tom Brady on the NFL’s top tier of quarterbacks.
For the Cardinals…it was a great run. They had an opportunity to win this game, but their secondary wasn’t able to manufacture any big plays. Domonique Rodgers-Cromartie was a huge reason this team reached the Big Game. On the surface, it seems that his struggles Sunday night were a huge reason his team came up short, as well. But thanks to Roethlisberger’s magnificence, Rodgers-Cromartie was asked to hold his coverage for a drastically extended period of time. And he didn’t get a whole lot of help from his safeties.
The Kurt Warner Hall of Fame debate is going to be extremely interesting. I think the fact that Warner has been insanely prolific in all three of his Super Bowl appearances will get him in. But there may be some voters who hold onto the memory of his to James Harrison interception at the end of the first half.
Speaking of that James Harrison interception….it was one of the greatest plays in NFL history. Earlier this year in a Monday Night game, Cleveland’s Brandon McDonald picked off Donovan McNabb in the end zone at the end of the first half and nearly ran it back as time expired. But he didn’t I happened to be sitting up in the Monday Night booth for that game and asked Ron Jaworski at halftime if he’d ever seen a play like that. I was surprised when he said No. That’s the first thing I thought of when Harrison reached the end zone to end the half in this game. Not only was this an incredibly rare play for a Super Bowl – this was an incredibly rare play for a football game.
A little tidbit that no one seemed to notice after the game was Harrison saying to Andrea Kramer that the Steelers had called a max blitz for that play, but that he figured Warner would release the ball quickly, so he decided to drop back. Dick LeBeau was lauded for the play-call, but it sounds like the NFL Defensive Player of the Year just improvised.
You could easily make a case for Harrison as the Super Bowl MVP. Besides the huge interception return, he also collapsed Warner’s pocket all night, and drew three holding penalties from left tackle Mike Gandy. LaMarr Woodley was equally as dominant on the right side.
A few more notes on the Steelers…
Continue reading at www.NFLTouchdown.com
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