"I was picking my heart up off the grass, off the sideline," recalled Willie Parker. "Man, everything dropped, everything like just dropped, my jaw dropped, I had to pick that up. Man, you just don't understand. It was like a feeling like, 'Whew, we did it.' I said we did it. Once Ben made that tackle I knew we had a shot, our defense was unstoppable. Our defense stopped anybody. You wouldn't mess with our defense any type of way."
Roethlisberger making that tackle led to Pittsburgh's defense having a chance to close out the game, and the defense was on fire all season. Pittsburgh's 2005 defense finished the season ranked third in points against, allowing only 16.1 per game and fourth in yards against. They were simply dominant, and all game against the Colts in the divisional round they made life...
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