Did Holmgren snub Cowher?

[macduff93]

Cowher was obviously looking for Holmgren immediately after the game and waited for quite some time, but I never saw Holmgren at all and they definitely never showed a handshake.

What's up with that? I though Holmgren was a pretty decent guy.

[CaliHornia]

I saw (or didn't see, I guess) the same thing. He was pretty short with Kolber at halftime, too, so she laid off him. I think he was pretty torqued about the officiating which was bad--all the calls pretty much went against them.

Cowher actually looked a little ticked about it.

That was a horrible game, by the way. It had a few chances to become a kind of back and forth game that might have made it better, but it never got there.

[macduff93]

I agree. The officiating was less than excellent but then so was the playing. For some reason, it seemed that the Steelers were too conservative for too long at first and then when they did pass, I held my breath.
Some of the penalties may have been out of line, but they did not cost Seattle the game, IMO. They seemed to fail to execute more often than not when it came to scoring and the play calling, especially clock management was screwy.
I thought the Steelers came out in the 2nd half and established their run game that wasn't there in the first half. Good adjustments on their part.


But I digress....if Holmgren did snub Cowher, it was very classless and just makes the loss that much lower for the team.

[texag005]

I was also wondering if he did snub Cowher. I think that is absolutely inexcusable and classless if he did no matter the outcome of the game.

[NPLAggie07]

I am not sure the officiating was as bad as some are saying. Yea, a lot of the close calls went against seattle but they were the right calls. I do not think it cost seattle the game.

[cyanide]

If Holmgren did snub Cowher, then why hasn't it been covered in any news stories? I've search all around the internet for some info on this, but no luck. I was curious about why Cowher was standing alone at midfield as is customary for coaches to meet following a game. However, no Holmgren appeared and I had to quickly shut off the television as I was at work and didn't have a chance to see if they actually shook hands. Weird. Anyway, if there is a follow-up to this, I'd be interested in reading about it, so feel free to post a link on here for helpless little ol' me. heh.

[phatbc]

I agree NPL, there was maybe one call that was really in question. Just because seattle had more calls against them doesn't mean anything, they were right on those calls that brought their big plays back IMO. Seattle didn't manage the clock well either, that was pretty dumb. I feel like they just didn't prepare as much.

[texag005]

Clock Management. It didn't necessarily determine the ultimate outcome of the game, but I think it played a huge part in Seattle not winning. If they get that field goal at the end of the half, it allows them to maintain some momentum coming out of halftime, but missing it did nothing but insure that Pittsburg would come out with all the momentum. And about the officiating, I didn't see a whole hell of a lot that shouldn't have been called either. Madden was bitching about the push off on the touchdown in the first half, but I didn't know the rule said once you finish your route you can start pushing and shoving. That was basically his logic for saying it was a bad call at first, well see he finished his route and was just feeling his qb. Great but he still can't push off of the DB

[gigemcru]

I didn't know the rule said once you finish your route you can start pushing and shoving


then we should make our routes 5 yrds long....

[CoolaidWade]

I thought it was bad officiating by the refs in my opinon. Not only some bad calls but more then a few gamebreakers. So Holmgren had a right to be pissed off although not to snub Cowher at the end. If that's true then he is a big fat punk.

Although Seattle beat themselves with that time management stuff. That was insane.

Not that I'm complaining since I had money on Pitt

[Texags]

That was definitely offensive pass interference. I don't even know why they acted like it was questionable.

[macduff93]

I read in the paper this morning that the two coaches did meet up after the game actually embraced, but not sure when that occurred.

As for the officiating. It was not stellar, but it rarely is. Looking at the highlights again this morning, it was obvious that Pittsburgh made the big plays that lead to their scores and the one questionable holding call that nullified the pass to the 1 may or may not have made a difference, but it's interesting that no one is Seattle is whining about the dropped pass in the end zone and the 2 missed FGs that also would have made a huge difference...Oh, and the freebie that Big Ben handed them by way of an easy pick that lead to their only TD.

Pittsburgh definitely won the game

And just where was the touted seahawk "12th Man on the road"?

[NPLAggie07]

The only call I think was wrong was the low block called on Hasselback. He didn't even touch one of the blockers and actually made a great tackle. However, like I said before I don't think this had toomuch effect on the game. He made the tackle but he threw the interception also.

[Vlyrock]

Yeah, I agree, that low block was a horrible call...the offensive pass interference was a definite push off. I think the ball did cross the very front edge of the goal line with Rothlisberger's dive...overall, they didn't overturn a lot of calls that went to review. I think they did a well enough job.

[Dustin00whoop]

I heard on Mike & Mike this morning that Holmgren was trying to get out to midfield to shake Cowher's hand but because of all the congestion on the field he wasn't able to get there. He then went to the Pittsburg locker room to shake Cowher's hand.

[Slotback]

That makes sense.