Hope you weren’t.
Their Easy Button ™ must be busted.
Steelers Suck! Go Bears!!!
lol
Clearly they needed me to be here shouting Throw it, catch it, run, run, run! With out me apparently they don’t know to do those things. Damn Comcast for not showing them!
They did pretty well in those areas. What they needed was a magic gust of wind to blow Jeff Reed’s kicks back between the uprights.
Next week is important, right around week 3 is when all the units are getting in sync and we really start to see what the team is made of regardless of who the opponent is. The line played better but Kemoeatu was still taking bad angles in his pulls because he’s slow getting around there. His blocks today were on guys who were themselves in bad positions. He needs to get better for the run game to really take off. Willie Colon played better, I’d still rather see him at guard though.
BTW, did Santonio Holmes forget to put stickum on his gloves today? He dropped at least three passes not including the one in the end zone where Charles Tillman probably covered his view enough to make that one unrealistic for him to have caught.
Nah, it’s our collective NFL fan “give a damn” that’s busted.
Well. Leave it to the Steelers to choke away a game they had well in hand the whole time. For want of not one, but TWO missed field goals, the game was lost. And it’s not like he could blame the field, Reed plays his home games at Heinz Field, which is frequently much worse than that was yesterday.
Oh, well. Every team since 1972 has lost at least once. Next week Pittsburgh will be back to their winning ways.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Although I must admit it’s pretty hard for me to sit here and talk much shit about playing the Steelers, as they have pretty much owned us pretty much forever.
It’s going to be a good game, though. No blowout like last year. We’re actually healthy for a change, the offense is back and we have a pass rush. Antwan Odom has 7 sacks in two games!
Yesterday saw the return of something that I found particularly frustrating last year. I don’t know if it’s Arians or Roethlisberger who’s at fault, but 3rd and 2 from the 25 with about 3:25 seconds left, and you try a 25 yard pass to the end zone???
WTF? GET THE GODDAMNED FIRST DOWN. RUN SOME CLOCK. TRY TO GIVE REED A BETTER CHANCE.
I saw this a bunch last year, and perhaps the year before, and if it’s Ben making poor choices, don’t call plays in those situations that he can do something so stupid. If it’s Arians, then sit him down for a good talking to or shitcan him. Don’t be so stupid.
Occasionally taking a shot downfield on short yardage downs is not a bad idea. It keeps the defense from selling out against the run on other short yardage downs, and can result in an easy touchdown or big play when they do.
If you don’t like winning games, go for the lower percentage play and stop the clock on third and short when you’re tied in the fourth quarter and looking to a long field goal to put you up by three.
Me, I prefer winning.
:rolleyes:
I said, “occasionally”. The higher percentage play very quickly becomes a low percentage play if everyone knows it’s coming- especially when your rushing offense is almost totally impotent.
The point is that you do that earlier in the game, so that you can set up for the situation in question, when you NEED the two yards and can’t afford to be dicking around with tossing the ball downfield.
Note that, if they wanted to run speculative plays, they could have tried any numbe of other options that don’t stop the clock, like a reverse, or a sweep, or any other form of run that doesn’t attempt to stuff the line for 2 yards. :smack:
Cincinnati lost its second Super Bowl to the same sort of collective brain fart reasoning. Facing a 3rd and something like 4 with around 2 min. left in the game relatively deep into SF territory, they opted to run a play that repositioned the ball in the center-left of the field, so that the kicker would have an easier angle for the field goal that broke the tie. I remember watching this and saying to my wife at that point that the game was over. She was all disappointed (being a 49ers fan), but I said, no, you don’t understand, you just won the game. We just handed Joe Montana the ball with wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much time to score a TD.
:mad::mad::mad::mad:
If that play was designed to go deep then I agree it was too late in the game for it but without having seen a replay yet I’m not sure what options he had short. The Bears would have been playing the line quite heavily and Ben’s options might not have been there. I think more likely Ben just thought Reed would be money from there and went for it hoping to get either the touchdown or defensive pass interference rather than risking the short throw if the Bears were sitting on the routes threatening to jump one and make a pick. It wasn’t that many years ago we were all screaming at him for being too conservative and turning the ball over in the red zone for exactly that reason.
I shared this last season and thought I’d post it again for any Steelers fans that missed it. Reporter Dale Lolley has a blog where he posts a lot of “insider” information, meaning closer to the daily grind than any of us will ever get. Dale’s right more often than not and is great at dispelling rumours. He’s pretty well-balanced in his coverage, he got the score wrong but predicted they would lose to the Bears last week. Worth the time for any serious fan.
Steeler fans (and I mean no disrespect to your bishop’s rings…I won’t kiss them, though)…your comeuppance arrives Sunday at 4:15PM. I truly hope that by sending you to 1-2 that it causes a lot of self-doubt amongst your team and your fanbase.
It’s time somebody else in the AFCN had a turn at being good.
What, are they realigning the divisions again? 
The Lions will remain in the NFCN.
I see the Bengals winning this game but the Steelers making the playoffs. It will be just as close as the Bears game though so could really go either way. The Bengals don’t have a quality TE to force mismatches on the secondary with Tyrone Carter like the Bears did but that might not matter since it looks like Carter might be out for this game. I’m hoping they move Clark to SS and start Ratliff or Townsend at FS but it’s more likely they leave Clark where he is and give Mundy some reps on the strong side.
Perhaps the biggest match-up of the game is Chris Henry against William Gay. Ike Taylor has shown in the past that he can shut down Chad Ochostinko but if Gay can’t cover his side of the field the Bengals will be happy to pick on him all day I’m sure. The long drive the Steelers gave up to the Bears was the longest they’ve given up in three seasons. The Bears used a blueprint that was established by NE and Ariz against the Steelers before and did it because they played a flawless drive, few times can maintain that type of consistency for the full drive. It won’t happen two weeks in a row. If the Steelers lose this game it will be the offense blowing it again. The Bengals LBs are more active than in previous years and their corners are very good. I think that will be the difference in this game. I don’t know much about Cincinnati’s D-line yet. Peko always plays strong against them, Odom looks like a fluke to me but the LBs and the secondary are the real deal so Ben will have to be sharp in this one. If they had a running game I’d feel better about their chances but the line isn’t in sync yet. Kemoeatu got away with some sloppy pulls last week that Domato Peko will eat up on the inside this week if he doesn’t execute them better.
If I could have one wish for this game it would be that the Bengals get the Steelers pissed off. Guys like James Harrison play better angry and I haven’t seen that fire from them yet this year. Last week they played soft; I want to see some fire this week.