was a team that for whatever reason was not executing on offense in the 1st quarter. And the cause of that could be ANYTHING. Nerves, inexperience, encountering a good defense that had their number, or all of the above, and so on.
Claiming to KNOW the cause is just never going to be valid. You don't know, I don;t know, and we can;'t know. It would take mind-reading to know that.
However, here;'s what we do know. The playoffs always give 2 teams per conference a bye. If time off wrecks a team's chances, those playoff byes ought to regularly do it too.
Anyway the Steelers rested some starters in week 17. Add that to the bye and they will have had 2 weeks off. Are they at a disadvantage v. the Jagz?
