Pittsburgh Steelers: Good, Bad and Ugly of the 2013 Season | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Coming into Week 17, no one really thought the Steelers had a ton of playoff life left in them. Vegas opened the week giving Pittsburgh a 2.7 percent chance of being the AFC’s 6seed. Even after Baltimore and Miami both lost, the Chargers would still have to lose at home to the Chiefs' B-team in order for the Steelers to make the dance.

But with eight seconds left in the fourth quarter in San Diego, it seemed all but certain that Pittsburgh would, against all odds, make the Playoffs.

And then it happened. Wide right from 41 yards off the foot of the normally sure-shot Ryan Succop. The game would go into overtime, and the Chargers would eventually win and go to the postseason.

In essence, that game was the Steelers' season in a nutshell, a lot of build-up and a lot of hope, only to be dashed in the final seconds and leaving fans pondering the "what if’s." But the Steelers should have never put themselves in that sort of position. I mean, does a team that lost to the Raiders, Vikings and Titans deserve to make the playoffs?