Rashard Mendenhall:‘I Don’t Know If There’s A More Attacked Player’ Than Me Due To Super Bowl Fumble

If you want to have a better reputation, put the uniform on again, be productive and retire with a good reputation this time.

 

And without our 2nd string RB

 

Honestly, I never blamed him for the loss. I was upset when it happened, but never blamed him for the entire loss. I do remember Ben throwing a crucial INT as well. The only thing about Mendenhall that frustated me when he fumbled anytime was that he had a tendency to leap over a pile with ball in his forearm spread out like the wing of a plane. He did that quite often. Not so much on this particular fumble. He is the one who keeps doing the interviews and bringing it up. I wasn't even as mad at O'Donnel as some fans were. I was upset with the INT, but the story was the WR ran the wrong route on an anticipation throw. It was just disappointing because I'm pretty sure everyone in the stadium was confident, we were about to march down the field for a go-ahead TD.

 

The 02 season divisional round vs the Titans - Joe Nedney flop was another tough one to stomach. Particularly painful after coming off such an incredible win vs the Browns. That said, I have no doubt the Raiders would have spread us out and picked us apart the following week. That was their specialty and our biggest weakness.

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm did a great skit with Buckner in it.

 

That one was brutal. In the first quarter, Troy Edwards took a stupid penalty to wipe out a 64-yard punt by Josh Miller. When he tried again, it was a short one with lousy hang time that Troy Brown returned for a touchdown.

 

I mentioned that they were without their top two. I knew it was D'Angelo Williams. I forgot that he started 10 games that season and ran for over 900 yards.

 

It looks terrible when Mendenhall throws a teammate under the bus but it's ok for me to do it. Our fullback ok let me correct that our TE playing the FB position completely whiffed on a critical block on a great LB at the time. Not sure how many RB's don't fumble when hit clean like that by an all pro LB .

For some reason Tomlin or the front office always thought we don t need a FB we can just ask any TE to move over and presto your a FB.

The last true FB we had played his entire career in GB , not sure if Kuhn made it out of training camp before he was traded or released , but he played well for GB for yrs.
We try and claim to be a run first team but haven t had a true FB since Kreider. Maybe Fumatafalla and I know that is not spelled correctly .

 

He feels that way because of personal shame. He has not gotten over it, so he thinks everyone else is judging him on it. He probably meets someone new, shakes hands with them and silently thinks......'I bet you are judging me for that fumble'. This is a personal problem. It was 20 years ago, and he is long gone so we no longer care. Now we are focused on ripping apart the current Steelers that screw up.....lol

 

Sorry. I missed when You said that. We sure could have used him for dang sure.

 

And we still were in it. I have personal reasons why that one hurt.

 

We still almost had it and if we made it to the big one I think they could have pulled it out as much as Denver. It hurt…

 

Unlikely since they would have played in Foxboro the week after and we all know that our history in Foxboro is just awful!

 

It wasn't Mendenhall's fault that the play was blown up in the backfield, but yes, the fumble was on him. He had time to protect the ball correctly. He didn't. Also, two guys missed their blocks on that play, not just Johnson.

I do find it funny that Mendenhall's most recent idiocy was to denigrate white football players. In case he forgot, Matthews is white. Johnson is not.

Fuamato-Ma'afala was not a true fullback. He was a big running back.

You are forgetting Roosevelt Nix, who was a true fullback and a hell of a blocker. Derek Watt was also one, but they didn't use him.

 

I still think Mendenhall had one of the best quotable lines a few months back when he said “He didn’t fumble the ball, he was separated from the ball.” Which gives it a different perspective. For instance in that same game, Ben didn’t throw any interceptions. Ben threw the ball, but the other team caught it.

 

Ben was pilfered of the ball

 

Not even entertaining that Racist POS.


But he did fumble away the Super Bowl. So he can get lost.

 

Persecution complex

 

he's exaggerating his own importance. However, here's a what if I've wondered about from that game for years:

Ike Redman came in the 3rd quarter and made 2 nifty runs for 19 yards. Then, they took him out? Why?

 

Red Zone Redman?