Why I Hate Beat Writers Who Write About the Steelers

Places like Yahoo! are sad excuses of search engines and news websites.  The level of mediocrity is unnerving and disturbing.  The writers who contribute to these sites always just gloss over their topics and have about as much understanding in what they are talking about as they would in quantum physics.  These sites are at their worst when trying to talk about sports at an in depth level.  Here’s the reasoning behind this latest lashing out of lame interweb media.

Lee Andrew Henderson from Yahoo! wrote an article this morning titled ’10 Reasons the Steelers Lost in the 1st Round of the Playoffs: Fan’s Opinion’  The really sad thing – this guy calls himself a Steelers fan.  It is a sad statistical and theorized approach to why the Steelers lost to the Broncos.  It’s terrible writing.  I found myself saying over and over again, ‘What?! What are you talking about?!  Did you watch the same season I did?’  I was especially irritated over reason #2: Injuries.  Lovely Lee used last year as an example to this year stating,

"Last year the Steelers were pretty lucky considering how frequent injuries in the NFL happen. Other than some offensive line injuries there weren’t significant injuries to any of the skill positions or the defense."

Uhhh….. what?  Did he not realize that Polamalu was injured for a long time… only our best and most explosive player on defense?  Did he somehow miss Polamalu coming out and saying that he was not 100% when playing in the SB?  Lee also said that Mendenhall’s injury was part of the reason why the Steelers lost.  Did he really think ‘Shard would have gained over 120 like Redman?

The list goes on and on with absurd statements like Hines Ward takes targets away from Ben, Charlie Batch could never have won the 49’er game, the fact the Steelers were simply playing a Wild Card game, and so on.

Someone please, aside from myself, write to this jag and tell him off?  He clearly is at odds with himself and needs to be set straight.  I’m not one to question fandom, especially when it comes to Steelers Nation… but how is this guy part of SN?  Alright I’m off my box.  Just felt like this guy needed a dose of some reality from some of our readers here at NPC.  Check out the article below and let this guy know what really went down.

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