They say that football is a game of inches. It actually isn’t always. But it always bears that capability, and we saw that to full effect in a number of different ways yesterday during the Pittsburgh Steelers’ final offensive play, which narrowly resulted in the game-winner score with just five seconds to play.
A designed shovel pass option, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger decided that he didn’t have enough room to pitch the ball to Vance McDonald, by a matter of inches. So instead, he kept it.
Matt Feiler was inches away from sealing off linebacker Myles Jack in the end zone that would have made Roethlisberger’s run that much easier.