Steelers manage "not to lose" the Super Bowl

Not exactly how they drew it up, of that I'm confident.

Sure the Steelers won, Ben and Santonio basically put the game on their backs and delivered. Those two guys and that last drive are masking some horrific performances. The O Line was bad, real bad. Couldn't pick up short yards all season and this game was no different. At the goal line, when Pittsburgh could have stolen Arizona's will, they instead breathed life into their opponent... THREE TIMES.

The play calling on both sides of the ball was bad for most of the game. In my mind the defense was never put in position to show what it could do. They allowed Arizona to dictate the flow and that is an abomination. Warner wasn't pressured nearly enough and the underneath stuff was allowed all night. The Steelers played "bend, don't break" defense today and that is counter to everything we know about defense in Pittsburgh. There were multiple times the Steelers could have ended the game with more aggresive play calling, but they seemed to call plays out of fear, hoping to just "not lose" the game. Disgusting.

In the end the better team did win, but it could have been a historic blowout...