LOL. The Steelers look terrible, the Ravens look better than they have all season. And you’re giving up before the game is even over?
I don’t know what kind of on side kick he was trying but that was hilarious.
To anyone watching the game, I’m sure it is clear that that wasn’t so much “giving up” early, as much as bowing to the inevitability of whatever the fuck that was.
Steelers will beat Cowboys next week by 11 points.
Want to bet money on that?
Wasn’t it? I had to double-check the uniforms, make sure that it wasn’t actually the Browns kicking off.
Here is it again, for your viewing pleasure.
As for what he was trying to do, my bet is it was something like this.
Uh huh…
What? Risk actual currency rather than carelessly and without consequence throw around assertions as if I have an actually magic 8-ball? I think not.
But if I’m not correct (correct being defined as a Steelers victory of more than a TD, because 11 points is entirely too specific) you may laugh at me. Much like, if I am proven correct, I will laugh a booming pirate laugh of Peter-Ustinov-like quality.
For booming pirate laughs, the gold standard is Brian Blessed.
I’ve been a supporter of Tomlin over the years but this might be his swansong if things don’t right themselves. I know they have injuries but this is just another in a growing list of games in which the Steelers just don’t show up ready to play.
You’re right on all counts. What an awful game, and that was the perfect ending.
I expected 4 losses all season, not 4 in the first half. If they lose 2 more they’re done. But my guesses have been wrong all year. I picked the Cardinals to make the Super Bowl and they won’t even get out of the division.
That sure lived up to game of the week. Dunno about all those two point conversions…
In the end the missed 2-point conversions didn’t actually hurt anything. The matador defense did.
That game had everything except the result I hoped for. Now Robin gets to rag on me for a few years. Yay. And that’s not even the worst part. No, the worst part is that Pittsburgh is still on the schneid and shows no signs of figuring it out even though the offense is putting points on the board.
I think Elliot would have had tougher sledding on his TD runs if the Steelers had been up by 4 instead of 1.
Yeah, I think leaving eight points out there instead of four was pretty crucial actually. I was honestly stunned by Tomlin’s decision to go for two on their first two scores. Although with the amount of missed and blocked EXP’s happening this season maybe it’s a good statistical gamble, I don’t know.
AFCN has transformed into one of the worst divisions in the NFL almost overnight and it’s still a three team race, none of them are out of it at this point.
At least the Steelers can claim the division’s lone victory over an NFC East team.
. Oops. Guess it’s back to my daytime job of polling likely voters.
Anyone remember the wild 37-36 Steelers-Packers regular-season game from 2009, Week 15?
Cowboys 35-30 Steelers tonight felt like that one.
An exciting game but jeez those PATS. Talk about the Sunk Costs fallacy in action. They should have given up on 2 PCs after the first one missed. It would have made all the difference to have a bigger lead at the end.
This is the week where we truly determine what the Steelers are this year. The Browns are terrible. Hopelessly, irredeemably terrible. Pittsburgh is on a 4-game losing streak. Only one team has lost every game in a 16-game season.
See where I’m going with this? If I told you I wasn’t afraid of this game I’d be a liar, and that’s a problem because on paper Pittsburgh is so good that I shouldn’t have to worry about it. And yet, 4-5 tells the story. The Steelers have been so inexplicably average this year that nobody can predict how their games are going to go.
But I’ll try anyway, because it’s me. 31-17 Steelers after staking the Browns a 10-point lead like every other team has done this season. The Browns really are awful. So awful, in fact, that the last starting quarterbsck to win a game for Cleveland is Johnny Football. Blows the mind, doesn’t it?
I’ll be damned. Pittsburgh won. It wasn’t pretty, but it doesn’t have to be.
Cleveland is as bad a football team as I’ve ever seen. Their best players are an offensive lineman (Joe Thomas) and a reformed QB-cum-WR Steeler killer (Terelle Pryor). The rest are garbage.