Some More Super Bowl Thoughts

Didn't mean to come out so harsh on both the game and Harrison fronts. My point wasn't to say that this Super Bowl was not one of the greatest of all-time, only to say that it's impossible for me to agree with anyone who says outright that this was the greatest one ever. Also, upon further review, Harrison's touchdown was spectacular. If you want to call that play the best all-time in a Super Bowl because of what it did for the game, and the obvious length of it, I'm okay with that. I still don't think it was as cool as Tyree's last year, though. Now, onto some other musings of mine from last night.

Santonio Holmes absolutely deserved the MVP award. I like that this award isn't like the MVP award of the season, where it almost always ends up in the hands of a quarterback. In the past 10 years, only five Super Bowl MVPs have been quarterbacks (Warner, both Mannings, and two for Brady), while in the same time span, the ratio of quarterbacks to non-quarterbacks winning the season MVP award is 8:3 (Peyton and Steve McNair split it one year).

The only other logical choice for the award was Roethlisberger. Woodley had a huge game, and Harrison obviously got his, but I don't think you can give it to anyone on a defense that was lit up in the second half the way the Steelers' was. I give it to Holmes because of his great ability to get yards after the catch. It happened at least three times that Holmes took a pass from the line of scrimmage and turned it in to real positive yardage. By the way, I didn't believe it at first, but the touchdown to win the game was absolutely brilliant.

With that being said, the unit that played the worst during the game was the Cardinals secondary, which is particularly shocking to me because of how highly I regarded them coming into the game. They were really playing brilliantly in the first few playoff games (remember what they did to Jake Delhomme?). It's hard to criticize any secondary playing against Ben Roethlisberger because of how long you will often be forced to cover your man, as Ben extends plays like few others. There were some blown coverages, though, that were really inexcusable. Everyone was salivating over what a great play Rodgers-Cromartie made in the first quarter to save a touchdown, but if the ball wasn't five yards underthrown, we would be talking about what blown coverage he had. Beside that, there were the three men surrounding the ball for the final touchdown catch, with none of them even getting to Holmes in time for the push out. Two interceptions were dropped, and to pick on Rodgers-Cromartie again, it looked like he was a high school freshman playing against a senior when he was lined up with Holmes one-on-one on the outside. He really had a terrible game.