"Professional football's meanest, bloodiest rivalry served as a powerful backdrop for two stars to find their respective finishing kicks hitting the home stretch not only of this season, but also in the race for Defensive Player of the Year.
Ravens edge-rushing issue-creator Terrell Suggs played, for the balance of the night, like he was Lawrence Taylor. He had a sack-and-a-half, three tackles for losses, and hit quarterback Ben Roethlisberger five times, the kind of dominant performance that prompted John Harbaugh to call him "one of the premier players in the league."
Because in a season in which Ed Reed has struggled to regain his otherworldly form coming off a serious hip injury, the gap between Troy Polamalu and the rest of the NFL's safeties might be wider than any such divide in the league. And he showed why on Sunday night when it mattered most. When it counted, though, he was outdone, and really, there's not a whole lot of shame in that."
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