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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnBrown" data-source="post: 602887" data-attributes="member: 2243">Reapersaurus,For the fix to be in on the Tennessee Game, then it must have been planned from the beginning of the season.  I say that because the Steelers played that game the same way they did all season.  This year at least, the Blitzburg defense was nowhere to be found.  The humiliating losses to New England and Oakland at the beginning of the year exposed their weak secondary.  While they remained good at stopping the run (85.9 yards per game), the Steelers couldn’t stop the pass all year long (213.6 yards per game).  Their record shows this.The only blowout wins they had this year were against Cincinnati (34-7), Indy (28-10), Baltimore (31-18), and Carolina (30-14).  With the exception of Indy, we aren’t exactly talking powerhouse offenses here…All of their other wins were shootouts, or at least close games:  Cleveland (23-20), Atlanta 34-34 (OT tie), Cincinnati (29-21), Jacksonville (25-23), Tampa Bay (17-7), and Baltimore (34-31).  Their losses were all defensive breakdowns:  New England (14-30), Oakland (17-30), New Orleans (29-32 OT), Tennessee (23-31), and Houston (6-24).Compare that to traditional Pittsburgh records of seasons past, and it becomes pretty clear that, this year at least, the Steelers relied on their offense pretty heavily.So, in the last game of the season they find themselves in a shootout and lose because of defensive breakdowns in the 4th quarter and in overtime.  Questionable call or not, I wouldn’t say that is not evidence of the game being fixed.  I would say that it is simply further evidence that they have had a rather weak pass defense and a tendency to make defensive mistakes all season.</blockquote>

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