If Pittsburgh’s Head Coach Mike Tomlin (pictured above, and not to be confused with baseball pitcher Mike Timlin) didn’t go for those two 2-point conversions in the playoff game tonight, there was a much better chance that the Steelers could have taken the game into overtime. I was talking to my dad about how I don’t think rookie coaches have the necessary skills to make the proper decisions in the playoffs, and here’s a prime example of the aforementioned lack of skills. Obviously, Jacksonville had a chance at a touchdown at the end, but I’d rather be up 3 in the last minute than be up 1 in the last minute.

Another thing my dad brought up is in 1998, when the Broncos were playing Green Bay in the Super Bowl and were driving (the same situation as the Jaguars were in tonight), and Mike Holmgren told his defense to let the Broncos score. That way, the Pack had more time to try to get a touchdown (which they almost did). I would have done the same thing. You’d have like 90 seconds to try to score, rather than the 30+ seconds that Pittsburgh had left.

Better luck next year, Steelers.

I love, however that the image was already up on flickr for me to use in my blog entry. This was the other image from the first page of results (sorted by date posted) that I was going to use for the blog entry. Saucy.