If you trash talk, you better be able to back those words up. For three quarters, the Jacksonville Jaguars did.
Then came the fourth quarter. And the Jags went away with a whimper. The Pittsburgh Steelers? Boarding the plane with a victory.
That’s why, this year at least, Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh. Poised to win their division, hopefully making one heck of a playoff push. And Jacksonville is Jacksonville. 3-7, their season functionally over.
Ben Roethilsberger cited that trash talk as a little extra motivation to complete the comeback.
“They had a linebacker, #50, we’ll just use numbers so we don’t say names, who wanted to let me know every time I threw an interception,” he said in his post-game press conference.