If you have a guy on the team for depth and he doesn't like his role, try to massage the situation. If it can't be done (which it very well could not have), then you actually have to bring in someone else for real depth and give him time to acclimate to the team. There were plenty of people here who felt they had faith in Harris. Really? did it seem that way. They needed to bring in a legitimate back, the day after Blount was released. That was a huge FO error. And we can sit here till doomsday. It was a mistake. If they couldn't bring in Tate, they should have looked at someone else Green-Ellis, whatever. Hell, I'd have seen if Spindenhall was interested for ***** and giggles. Bell played something like 97% of the offensive plays from scrimmage. You know you don't have depth if you are doing that.
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Blount might have had an impact tonight, and MAYBE if he had not decided to be such a bitchy ****** team mate, he would be, but he didn't choose that path, and I was, and still AM happy that the Steelers parted ways with him when they did.
**** him, and his 'you owe me" attitude.
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**** him, and his 'you owe me" attitude.
Joe
I agree, but then you have to be able to say to yourself what happens if Bell is hurt. You must have someone on the roster who at least gives you a chance. They had no faith in Harris, clearly. And Archer is a joke.
They couldn't. He was on Waivers and Minnesota had right of first refusal. However, MT needed to turn over some more stones on that one.
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Eh, Archer fills the skill set they thought he was going to fill coming in. Blount was supposed to be here to fill the 1/2 punch, but he didn't like being the "2" to the 1/2 very much. Do you freak out and grab someone the second he leaves, I don't think so, and I think had the injury happened any other time than RIGHT before the playoffs, it would have been an easy "bring someone in and see how they do" type fill in, but with the PO's on the line, it gets harder. Do you want to bring in someone and then toss them in "which they did, till Tate tossed it up for grabs on a fumble" or do you just go with Harris (which would have been my personal choice, since he looked pretty decent last week). I'm not the HC, and I haven't seen what Harris has or has not been doing well all year, so I don't know. What I DO know is with Bell this is a different game, but we didn't have Bell, so it is what it is.
Next year we'll see what we do to fix that, as well as the can't cover worth **** and have zero qb pressure without a 900 year old James Harrison deciding to return problem.
This will be the defining year for the Steelers and the direction for the next 2-3 years. Pick right, and fill the right holes, and Ben goes out with 1-2 more rings. Pick wong, and we're all here talking about what "might have been" for the next 10 years.
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Next year we'll see what we do to fix that, as well as the can't cover worth **** and have zero qb pressure without a 900 year old James Harrison deciding to return problem.
This will be the defining year for the Steelers and the direction for the next 2-3 years. Pick right, and fill the right holes, and Ben goes out with 1-2 more rings. Pick wong, and we're all here talking about what "might have been" for the next 10 years.
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You can't tell me that with the amount of touches tate had tonight that they had faith in Harris. They didn't. And if oyu never did then they should have brought someone in after the Tenn game when he walked.
Mendenhall although in great shape is traveling the world and according to him will never play another down. Smart cat, saved his money and "saved his body" as he says, walked away at 26. Great writer too he writes(or was writing) for some tv show believe it or not.
Some people can handle a guy like that and some cannot. He has had one big game in NE since he left of 20 touches and the rest has been the same as here. Yet he is some kind of team spokesman over there. But I digress, if you couldn't work with him, then you needed to legitimately replace him which clearly they did not.
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That's just it, they evidently didn't see much out there to go after. Nobody on any scrap heap was going to be half of what Bell is to our offense. He's the best all around back in the league. Once he got hurt we were in deep **** regardless.
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Obviously we don't have the brightest running this team. Obviously
No chance you could replace him ,but the sooner you got someone of some consequence in there the better. I would have rathe rhad a Felix Jones working in for the last 6 weeks or whatever it was then throwing a guy from the street with four days. It was a mistake. You guys can sugar coat it any way you want. And yes the injury came at the worst possible time, but you have to expect worst case scenarios.
Oh, really.
Did you read the wacky stuff he wrote about 9/11 and Bin Laden? Just Google it.
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I love to criticize Tombert, I really do. But not having a top notch backup wasn't on anybody. We had to drop Chong, he was a cancer that was about to spread. We entered the season with as good of a pair of RBs that you could hope for. As with many things, it didn't work out.
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I agree. The guy was a locker room cancer. I think by keeping him and sucking up on the quitter we don't even make the playoffs. I can't second guess Tomlin on that one at all.
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Blount's presence in the lineup would not have prevented them from playing scared while Baltimore was in full attack mode last night.
