Josh Scobee blew the Steelers' two best chances to beat -- no, bury -- the winless Ravens with two missed field goals late in what wound up a 23-20 overtime loss Thursday night at Heinz Field. The snaps were fine, the holds were firm, there was barely a breeze and, heck, they'd even cemented off the Dreaded Open End with the stadium's summer expansion.
So there's no one to fault here beyond Scobee. It's fair and it's right.
Check that. It's left ...
As one might imagine, it was an uncomfortable scene around Scobee afterward. While he stood at his stall and faced multiple waves of cameras and microphones -- and I mean everyone rushed toward him when the doors opened -- several members of the defensive secondary sat silently in the same corner of the locker room when, suddenly, Mike Mitchell screamed something unintelligible. Scobee, in maybe his only showing of cool all night, continued speaking without hesitation.
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