Hard
Hat Award (Game # 14, @ San Fran)
No one is the winner of the weekly Hard
Hat Award, given to the Stiller player who
best embodies the iron-tough, hard-as-steel attitude of the steel workers
inside the blast furnace of a still mill.
With the Stillers in the catbird seat in the running
for the division title and home-field advantage, the entire team did a
collective egg-lay in the sorry, lackluster loss to the 69ers.�� The offense played grab-ass the entire
evening, barely mustering 3 points.�� The
defense was soft and cheesy all evening long, beginning right from the first SF
drive, in which the Niners went on a long 17-play
march, which ended with a FG only because QB Alex Smith was so inept he was
unable to lob a simple TD pass to a wide open WR standing about 20 feet away.� The defense was so soft and listless that it
forced zero turnovers, never applied a single hit to the QB, and gave up 2 2nd-half
TDs to a bumbling offense that had the worst red zone % in the entire NFL.� �
One of the few Stillers to perform adequately
was WR Jericho Cotchery, who had season highs in
catches and yards, and made some clutch grabs.��
It bears repeating that there is almost always -- if not always -- a
strong correlation between the number of players in consideration for the Hard Hat, and if the team won or
lost.� Simply put, Hard Hat kind of football leads to victory; pansy football (a term
used here long before Troy Pola popularized it) leads to defeat.
Kudos to no one for winning the Hard
Hat Award.�
Don�t wear the Hard Hat proudly, fellas.��
Previous 2011 Hard Hat Winners:
Game #13, vs. Clev:� Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison
Game #12, vs. Cinci:� Antonio Brown and Curtis Brown
Game #11, @ KC: Jason Worilds
Game #10, @ Cinci:� William Gay
Game #9, vs. Balt:� James Harrison and Max Starks
Game #8, vs. N.E.: Heath Miller and Ike
Taylor
Game #7, @ Ariz:� Antonio Brown
Game #6, vs. Jax: Troy Polamalu
Game #5, vs. Tenn:� Ben Roethlisberger and Max Starks
Game #4, @ Houston: James Harrison and Troy
Polamalu
Game #3, @ Indy: James Harrison and Troy
Polamalu
Game #2, vs. Seattle:� Mike Wallace and Troy Polamalu
Game #1, @ Balt:� No One
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