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Super Bowl XLIII: Steelers(-6.5) vs. Cardinals

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Didn't think they would do it against the surging Falcons - I was wrong.

I thought their defense would be flattened by Carolina's run game - wrong

Didn't think they could contain McNabb, WestBrook and a resilient Philly D...

I've gone against the Cards in the whole post-season, I won't do it again.


Go Cards!
 
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Buckeneye;1387772; said:
Didn't think they would do it against the surging Falcons - I was wrong.

I thought their defense would be flattened by Carolina's run game - wrong

Didn't think they could contain McNabb, WestBrook and a resilient Philly D...

I've gone against the Cards in the whole post-season, I won't do it again.


Go Cards!
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This is where I am at, I said "is there an easier first game in the playoffs than the Cards?" Man, they proved me wrong, then they went against the Panthers, I was thinking "the dream is over Arizona, enjoy what could have been" well fuck me... Philly should have rolled over that Warner guy, he hadn't done anything... fuck, once again....

I am torn, I need a week to decide, my head says "fucking Steelers, bet your house, your car, your kid, your wife, and you'll be a millionaire" but I still don't know. I want to say the Chargers had the offense that the Cards have, but, well, the Philly defense was pretty damned good.
 
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reagdog;1387832; said:
Damn - there's some serious Vcash getting thrown around on the Steelers right now. Wave those vbenjamins goodbye!!! I look forward to doubling my grand total of 2K vcash. Big money baby! I do accept rep this week so I can get more vcash to bet on my Cards! :)
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You should have bet the moneyline for the Cards then, that way you would have gotten double back (ie triple up)

Just helping ya win more vcash when the Cardinals blow out pitspuke.
 
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Roethlisberger, former coach downplay feud

Ken Whisenhunt and Ben Roethlisberger chose their words on the topic of each other this week as if they were contract attorneys, or even sweethearts.

"That was a very good relationship with Ben," Whisenhunt professed in Arizona.

"Coach Whis is a great coach," Roethlisberger oozed in the locker room yesterday.

No snide comments, no ruffled egos, no refusal to acknowledge the other as they set to clash next week in the Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla.

Actually, it has been mostly a one-sided affair since Whisenhunt left the Steelers in 2007 as their offensive coordinator and Roethlisberger's tutor for three years to become head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. Roethlisberger was the one who snubbed Whisenhunt before and after the Steelers' loss in Arizona in '07. It also was the quarterback who took issue with things Whisenhunt said shortly after the coach left the Steelers.

The two worked together, if not always amicably, when the Steelers went 13-0 behind the rookie quarterback in 2004, won the Super Bowl in '05, and then went belly-up in many ways in '06. The latter season produced an 8-8 record and poor statistics for the quarterback during a time in which he experienced a traumatic motorcycle accident in June, an appendectomy 10 days before the start of the regular season and a concussion during the season.

"I just saw physically in the pocket there were some things you could just sense he wasn't as confident as he was the year before," Whisenhunt said in February2007. "A lot of that I think was because of recovering from the injuries and having some doubts of whether he was 100 percent healthy or not."

It seemed innocuous, but Roethlisberger did not appreciate those comments and said as much.

"I don't agree with Whis. There were a lot of things I didn't agree with Whis about, and that's another one.

"Coach Cowher always came to me and asked me how I felt and I was always 100 percent honest with him. I was always honest with the doctors ?€? I don't think anything was rushed. I think I just didn't play well. I had a bad year. I'm sure Whis had a bad year once in his career."

The sarcasm of the last comment would not be his last on the topic. New coach Mike Tomlin thought it important enough that he talked with Roethlisberger about it before the Steelers played at Arizona in the fourth game of the 2007 season. Roethlisberger promised him he would not say anything to rile anyone up.

"I am not going to bash anything about the last year or any of the years," Roethlisberger said during the week before that game. "We won a Super Bowl and were very successful. Of course, I am going to be happy with the system I am in now."

On a conference call that week with the media in Phoenix, Roethlisberger was asked if Whisenhunt was as tough on him as he apparently was early that season with Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart.

"I know what Matt's going through," Roethlisberger answered, laughing.

Whisenhunt said he did not know how to interpret that remark.

"Is that good or bad?" the coach asked. "I think Ben had a couple of perfect passer ratings and I think he won a Super Bowl, so if that's a product of it, then that's not bad."

Roethlisberger was harsher on Whisenhunt in that 2007 training camp when he compared him and his style to his new offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians.

"We were so predictable -- run on first, run on second, throw on third-and-long -- and that killed us," Roethlisberger told USA Today Sports Weekly. "Last year, if we took a shot downfield and it was incomplete -- or, heaven forbid, intercepted -- we weren't throwing it again for a long time. And since we knew we were only throwing 15-20 times, we were so careful with doing this and that.

"It will be nice to know that Bruce isn't going to handcuff us."

Roethlisberger avoided Whisenhunt before that 2007 game in Arizona, and came under criticism for it. He sent a text to his former coach a few days later, apologizing for not saying hello or shake his hand, and there has been little more on the matter since then.

It appears there will be just as much this week and next, too.

"I am just happy that coach Whis and Russ [Grimm] and coach Spence [Kevin Spencer] and the rest of the guys are over there," Roethlisberger said yesterday.

Said Whisenhunt: "I certainly respect the player that he's grown into. I hope that our time together contributed a little bit to that. He was always very good with me and worked very hard. I was very lucky to have him as a quarterback especially my first year as a coordinator and what we were able to do."

What fun is that?
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This is what it's going to look like after Super Bowl 42 - these aren't tears of joy!

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reagdog;1388115; said:
I'm definitely not an experienced gambler so thanks for the heads up.
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Well see first of all you have too many aces. If we were in Germany you'd win, but here at BP, in America, my sevens win. See how that works now? You are really getting good at this.
 
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