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Absolutely disgusted by this loss. If the Steelers were a good team this would have been a blowout.
Our secondary has always been a weakpoint in the LeBeau era, but this year it’s pathetic. The play that will stick in my memory was in the middle of the 4th while the Titans were driving down to tie it. The Steelers rush 3, dropping 8 guys into coverage. 8 guys into coverage, and they still get burned for 35 yards.
It’s time for Ike Taylor to go. He’s incapable of covering a receiver unless he’s holding him or interfering.
The Steelers might still make the playoffs this year, simply because of the complete lack of talent in the AFC aside from Houston, New England and Baltimore. But they’re not even close to contending.
That was just sickening. The difference was the points off of turnovers, but ultimately it was Todd Haley’s call for a run that lost them 2 yards, the exact distance that Suisham missed by. Even then, all they had to do was stop the Titans. Just once.
I am disgusted. Ike Taylor played his usual terrible game, and somehow the Steelers managed to throw away yet another game they should have won. The team simply cannot hold a lead. Why, I have no idea, but this is a long-term issue that seemingly will never get fixed. It’s like rubberband AI with them.
As good as Ben can be at extending the play, I feel like this receiving corp is absolutely wasted on this team.
If you gave Mike Wallace, Antonio Brown, and Emmanuel Sanders to a quarterback like Drew Brees, Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning, the team would be scoring an average of 40 points a game. And we routinely struggle to break 20, even against weak defenses.
Receivers are traditionally wasted when your offensive coordinator plays Martyball. Haley still largely sticks to the run on first down. Open the game up a bit, dude.
Fact: Pittsburgh has had a minimum 7 point lead in every game they’ve played this year. They’re 2-3. Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Why are the Steelers fans still complaining about their o-coordinator? You guys couldn’t seem to shed Arians fast enough, and now it seems like more of the same.
Thank you, Jay Gruden.
Haley would be fine if he’d just open it up a bit. Everybody knows a run is coming, play-action would keep the defenses honest. It’s like Necessary Roughness, Round Right 22 Trap is the only play he runs on first down.
Because Todd Haley is probably the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL (and that includes guys like Greg Knapp and Brad Childress)? I don’t think any of the Pittsburgh fans wanted Arians gone; the players certainly didn’t. Arians was the undeserving recipient of the “well, someone needs to take the fall for this” axe last year.
Despite having a banged-up offensive line and the worst/most-injured running back cadre in the league, he still runs the ball like crazy. He wastes Antonio Brown on WR bubble screens and doesn’t do much else.
In the best offensive game of the season, against the Raiders, Roethlisberger came out and admitted he was calling plays from last year’s playbook in the second half. That says something.
Losing by a last minute field goal is not as much fun as winning. This whole game was just disappointment after disappointment.
OK, so Lardarius Webb is done for the year with a torn ACL, Ngata has a sprained MCL and could be done for several weeks if not the entire year, Murderin’ Ray hurt his triceps and might be out for an extended period, and T-Sizzle is still on the sticks. Now is the time to strike, Pittsburgh. Get it together, you may not have this opportunity again.
Yeah, I know, the Steelers are banged up, too, but still, they get leads. Now they just have to keep them.
And now we’ve wasted a fourth round pick… If Ta’amu isn’t released by the end of the week, I’ll be both surprised and disappointed…what a loser.
Yeah, it’s pretty unbelievable. Still, he hasn’t seen any playing time and probably wasn’t going to so no big loss. It’s not like he was a total bust, he was a fourth-rounder. Outside of the first two rounds you hope for production rather than expect it. But yeah, he really should be gone. A DUI I can understand, everyone makes mistakes, but hitting five cars, trying to run down police officers who were threatened enough that they were compelled to draw their weapons, and then bugging out and trying to blend in with the crowd by removing his shirt (like a huge nose tackle can hide in any crowd anywhere) absolutely justifies his release. If he had just owned it I’d be more lenient in my thinking, but that’s well beyond making a mistake.
The Steelers offense is built around a serial rapist and the defense is built around a domestic abuser. Ta’amu’s a perfect fit for the team.
Durr…
Really, that’s it? That’s all you have? Weak sauce.
See? Rape and wife beating isn’t even worthy of note to them.
I just think it’s funny when you guys pretend to care about character. It only seems to come up for non-contributors…
No, what’s not worthy is that this is old news. And, of course, the fact that said rapist was never even charged, and that the charges were dropped on said wife beater, who owned his mistake.
We could play this game all day. How about Ray-Ray, who rolled over on his friends? Where’s the suit, Ray? How about Kiante Tripp, Browns player and burglar?
Or, we can acknowledge that you’re just being jerks and let it go at that. Yeah, I think that’s what I’ll do.
One day Ben is going to ride in on his donkey and rape you, and then you might feel differently.
Or you might feel proud. Hard to guess.
Fun fact: apparently Cleveland has had more NFL players arrested since 2000 than Pittsburgh. Or Baltimore. Just saying.
The top team in each conference with the most amount of arrests are Cincinnati and Minnesota. Cincinnati with 37 arrests and Minnesota with 39. The complete list of arrests per team are as follows:
Arizona 9
Atlanta 14
Baltimore 16
Buffalo 14
Carolina 17
Chicago 21
Cincinnati 37
Cleveland 22
Dallas 11
Denver 33
Detroit 12
Green Bay 17
Houston 9
Indianapolis 23
Jacksonville 27
Kansas City 26
Miami 26
Minnesota 39
New York Giants 12
New York Jets 8
New England 13
New Orleans 19
Oakland 17
Philadelphia 10
Pittsburgh 17
San Diego 25
San Francisco 11
Seattle 18
St. Louis 7
Tampa Bay 24
Tennessee 30
Washington 18
Says the guy who can’t refer to Ray Lewis without calling him “Murderin’ Ray.” Yeah, we’re the jerks. :rolleyes: