Wallace108
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 | | Subject: Bires: Steelers just heating up Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:26 pm | |
| By Mike Bires mbires@timesonline.com
PITTSBURGH -- Just before the Steelers took the field, Ben Roethlisberger delivered a simple pre-game message: "This is our time."
As an eighth-year pro, Roethlisberger has been around long enough to know that "our time" translates to meaningful regular-season games in December and January.
That's not to downplay the importance of games during the first three months of the season. But when the calendar flips to December, true championship contenders make their move.
"That was my message to the team," Roethlisberger said. "There is no time for should haves, would haves and could haves. We have to get it done."
Roethlisberger knows first-hand about the magnitude of finishing the regular season with authority. It means more when you impose your will on an opponent and win as playoff pressure mounts. In 2005, 2008 and 2010 before reaching the Super Bowl, the Steelers went 11-3 in their regular-season games in December and January.
It's a bit premature to pencil in the Steelers as AFC representatives in this season's Super Bowl, but they surely looked super in routing the Bengals 35-7 on Sunday.
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| | Subject: Re: Bires: Steelers just heating up Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:17 am | |
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