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OK, I agree with most of what you said, then you started on the punter and touchbacks.
"Gave up 60 yards" on punts going for touchbacks? If the coverage team had stopped the ball at the 10 yard line for those three punts, would you have said that the punting team "gave up" 30 yards? Why not? If he had tried to finesse the ball into the corner and the Steelers ended up with a big runback, would you have said they "gave up" the number of yards of the runback, and ask why the punter made the mistake of punting where he did? If you're going to count imaginary yards and scenarios, you have to count all of them.
Technically, they "gave up" 57 yards on punts, since perfect punt coverage results in the ball being downed by the punting team at the 1. (1 x 3 = 3, subtracted from 20 x 3)
You're right - the game was pretty boring, so much so that you're blaming the punter's touchbacks as a contributing factor to the Seahawks' loss. Wow.
