[dgack]

Where are the people questioning JC's progression to a top-tier QB now? His confidence and overall play this year kind of reminds me of Roethlisberger's first season when he didn't necessarily light up the fantasy stats, but he had excellent field leadership, didn't make mistakes, and just won games, sometimes ugly if he had to.

Overall I have this feeling that we're just going to pull it out when I watch this team operate, a feeling I haven't had since the mid-90's. When it's third and long, I expect us to convert, and even when we don't, it doesn't feel like we never had a chance.

That's such a huge change from the past few years, where I felt like we were always going to depend on some kind of act of God or a lucky big play to put us over the hump.