Clay Mathews/Ryan Pickett-SPILL IT! 

Interesting hill to die on, I'm sure his Oline appreciates being thrown under a bus (not The Bus). Mes thinks he's never heard of the Barbra Streisand Effect.

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And I'm a unicorn.

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Russell Wilson never threw that interception. Malcom Butler jumped in front of the receiver and caught the ball!!!!

Respect his career.

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Wow.
Talk about denial. If you are carrying the football, and you either drop it or have it knocked out of your hands, it's a FUMBLE!
Calling it something else doesn't change what it is.
Calling a fart "flatulism" doesn't change what it is. It still STINKS!
The dude FUMBLED! (Thankfully!)
A great play by Mathews and Pickett is what it was. And a poor protection of the football by Mendenhall.
Whether it's passed the line of scrimmage, or behind it doesn't matter
Should that be the only thing that should be remembered in his career? Of course not. But it's what I remember most in his career, as I'm not a Steelers fan, and his "boo boo" helped MY team win the Super Bowl.
I really didn't follow any other part of his career.

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I believe the young man is haunted by his mistake, just like Mercedes Lewis on his fumble. He needs to move on.

Mr. Mucky tundra, you were spot on citing the Barbara Streisand effect.

We all make mistakes, sometimes they are life changing, sometime career changing, sometimes just trivial. This young man is morphing a career changing mistake into a life changing mistake by denying it and dwelling upon it.

Face up to it, then forgive yourself, as we should forgive others, and move on.

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I read a few of his tweets and I'm gonna have to go with he's dealing with some demons. Hope all is well with him.

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Getting a football knocked out of your hands.....if that's the worst thing that ever happened to you, consider yourself lucky.
He didn't kill someone.
Every year one team wins and one team loses the super bowl. And a lot of the time you can point to a couple of plays that swing the momentum.
The Steelers or anyone can't put the loss on one fumble. The Steelers had plenty of chances to come back from that play.
The Packers were the better team that day.
Look at SB31. The Patriots were making a comeback, when Desmond Howard returned that kickoff for a TD. That turned the momentum back in the Packers favor. We will never know what might have happened had he not made that huge play

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I could be wrong but even with a strip sack it goes in the stat book as a fumble by the QB doesn't it. I don't hear QBs saying "I didn't fumble it was a strip sack"

Yeah, I think he's just trying to blame his blocking for getting hit I'm the backfield...

As technically, all fumbles are simply getting "SEPARATED" from the ball, which is what makes it a fumble.

And he's saying, since it was clearly I'm the backfield, that's on the OL, not him...

But while the OL failed... he also failed at ball control, there is this thing called two hands on the ball, just most players rather take a risk and try to make a move than play conservatively...

He's right that he was screwed by the lack of blocking on that play, but it doesn't matter where they are on the field, ball control is ball control... and that's on him.

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