The way the atmosphere in Glendale was you would have thought the Cards had never played in a conference championship before, and yea that is the truth. Once again it was Larry, Larry, and Larry, 3tds in the first half. Warner came out on fire hooking up with his main man several times in the first half opening up a good lead on the Eagles. The Eagles showed their resiliency in the second half and mounted a good comeback but Kurt Warner played near flawlessly orchestrating a 14 play near 8 minute drive in the fourth quarter to put the game just out of reach for the Eagles. The game was not flawless for the Cards though, a blowup between O-coordinator and Anquan Boldin put a small damper on the biggest win in the franchises history. The Cards say this blowup does not matter and will not affect them in the Super Bowl. I like this Todd Haley guy and I think he handled it the right way, he did not walk away from Boldin he gave it right back to him and Anquan shut up. I could not disagree more with the people who say the coordinator should call plays from the booth so incidences on the sideline like this do not happen, if Haley would have been in the booth Boldin would have been screaming at someone else and the situation could have escalated even more. When you have a coordinator like Todd Haley who is not afraid to get back in the face of one of the team's stars it reminds the entire team that no single player is bigger then the team or the goal of the team, Jason Garrett and T.O. are you listening...? Boldin is a class act and it was a heat of the moment type thing and I do not think it should affect them in the Super Bowl.
About the Steelers, what can you say, they are the Steelers. Controlled the ball, did not turn it over, and Big Ben made the big plays when you needed the big plays. Hines Ward's injury took away Ben's go to guy but that did not matter Santonio Holmes stepped up big. Troy Polamalu showed Ed Reed that there is another safety that can pick the ball off and take it to the house, this play by Polamalu sealed the victory. As I expected Flacco got a little rattled in this one, I am not going to blame it on him being a rookie though, Pittsburgh's defense is so good they could have done that against almost every quarterback in the league.
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