{"id":14767,"date":"2011-02-09T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=14767"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:11:31","slug":"the-peterson-principle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=14767","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle 2\/9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Ben Roethlisberger threw two picks and missed on several passes. One interception was returned to the house and the other cut short a drive. But despite all that, if Rashard Mendenhall doesn\u2019t fumble early in the fourth quarter, you get the feeling the Steelers win the game.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Pittsburgh had all the momentum scoring 14 consecutive points and they were in good field position again. The Packers hadn\u2019t scored in the second half. The Picks were bad\u2026the fumble was a killer. And again it was the old story\u2026turnovers lose championships.<\/p>\n

The biggest surprise of the day might have been that the Packers won the game while running the ball just 13 times. What\u2019s was also surprising was that the Steelers knew Aaron Rodgers was going to throw the ball, he did and they still couldn\u2019t stop him.<\/p>\n

I heard some talking heads on the radio Monday morning speculating that if not for all the dropped balls by the Packers, Rodgers throws for over 400 yards. Maybe a stretch<\/p>\n

But Jordy Nelson alone did drop at least three balls.<\/p>\n

I have to give credit to Mid Valley Staffer Saile Ramirez. Last week on the Mid Valley Sports Show he was the only one that said he didn\u2019t like Roethlisberger. He said he had some flaws that could be exposed in the big game and that Rodgers would rule the day. Coincidentally, or not, Ramirez is the only quarterback on staff. Good call Saile.<\/p>\n

You can read Saile\u2019s column \u201cHigh School Quarterback\u201d every week on the Mid Valley Sports website.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny how when it comes to quarterbacks one game can put you on a different level. Before Sunday Roethlisberger was being mentioned as one of the all time greats on the verge of winning his third Super Bowl. Monday morning Rodgers was the guy in the same sentence as Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees while Roethlisberger was on the B level with Phillip Rivers and Eli Manning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It might be true but I as I was listening, I was thinking\u2026wait a minute hasn\u2019t Big Ben still won two?<\/p>\n

If nothing else the game lived up to the hype. Green Bay \u2013 Pittsburgh was truly a clash of the titans coming in and they didn\u2019t disappoint. Although it wasn\u2019t the best Super Bowl ever it ranks right up there. Green Bay jumped out to a big lead; Pittsburgh battled back with a chance to win in the end.<\/p>\n

The only thing better, at least from an unbiased fan\u2019s point of view, would have been Roethlisberger leading the Steelers on a game winning drive in the last minute. But not this time. This was Rodgers\u2019 time. I had a great headline for the game story: Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood!…ok maybe not.<\/p>\n

No I wasn\u2019t interested in the commercials. As far as I\u2019m concerned they were all terrible. But it\u2019s not really the commercials that bother me. It\u2019s everybody talking about the commercials. Who cares? Can\u2019t we talk about the game?<\/p>\n

Doritos, Chryslers, websites, I don\u2019t care. I want to talk about how Rodgers performed under pressure not about how some guy sucked some guy\u2019s finger after he just ate a nacho cheese chip.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning prior to the Super Bowl I decided to conduct a coach\u2019s poll as to who would win the game. I received 25 responses from local coaches in about an hour. Some responded with one word answers like \u201cPittsburgh.\u201d Others actually sent me a preview like \u201cI think Green Bay has a better run defense and a better pass offense. I don\u2019t think Pittsburgh can stop Rodgers. Packers 31-24.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ted Clarke picked Green Bay because he didn\u2019t want to sleep on the couch. Roddy Layton\u2019s response topped them all. \u201cI only follow Diamond Ranch football,\u201d Layton said. A true Panther until the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my principle.<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at tim@midvalleysports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Roethlisberger threw two picks and missed on several passes. One interception was returned to the house and the other cut short a drive. But despite all that, if Rashard Mendenhall doesn\u2019t fumble early in the fourth quarter, you get the feeling the Steelers win the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12817],"tags":[4485,4483,1990,4488,4486,1991,4487,4484,671,1437,2147,4250],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview","category-petersonprince","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-drew-brees","tag-eli-manning","tag-jordy-nelson","tag-peyton-manning","tag-phillip-rivers","tag-rashard-mendenhall","tag-roddy-layton","tag-saile-ramirez","tag-ted-clarke","tag-tom-brady"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59550,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions\/59550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}