Game Balls, Game Goats & FU's............@ Bungles.....

[Drink IRON City]

if Rooney cared, he'd have an appointment with Tomlin early this morning. He'd have a life-sized cutout of Ja'Marr Chase in his office and ask Tomlin repeatedly "Do you recognize this mfker?" because last night, he sure as hell couldnt see Chase running up and down the field.

Chase just got another reception as I typed that.

The abstract idea of putting our slowest and oldest CB on arguably the best WR in the game and leaving him in man coverage is one that should be studied with crayons and plastic spoons.

Anyone seen TJ? At one point, he had a whole solid QB pressure... and that was up until his late game half sack. Oh, and Cam... bitched moaned and cried for a new contract while inhaling turkey legs and adding girth... needs his pic placed on the side of a bucket of KFC. Completely missing.

This is what our high priced defense got you last night:

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If last night was any indication, we saw a changing of the guards. While Flacco is old, he can still see over the OL and find wide open WRs. Years ago, Higgins would have done what Muth did - ran into the end zone and scored a TD while leaving time on the clock. The fact that Higgins slid and Muth did not, changes everything.

PRIME example of Higgins being coached up and Muth ——— not so much.

GREAT post Supe, appreciate yaz.!


Salute the nation

 

[bigben]

For as good as the Steelers Defense has been in recent weeks they looked like complete crap tonight sticking with the tradition of Terrible Tomlin on Thursday Night Football. Mike Tomlin on the road on Thursday Night Football is now 1-8 and the Steelers haven't won on the road on Thursday Night Football since Week 15 of the 2007 season when they beat the St. Louis Rams 41-23. Seeing Joe Flacco absolutely shred the Steelers Defense tonight after being with the Bengals team for 8 full days is just downright embarrassing.

Offensively they played good enough to win this game despite 2 turnovers by Rogers he kept this team right in the game tonight with his 4 TD's. Jaylen Warren had a great game and the O-line really opened up some holes in the Bungles Defense with their JUMBO packages. The offense took the opening drive in for the TD by Jonnu Smith. The Steelers seemed set to take a 14-0 lead on a TD run by Warren that was called back on a Holding Penalty and then the offense went to sleep for the rest of the first half while the Bengals scored 17 unanswered points to take the 17-10 lead at the Half. Back and forth the Steelers and Bungles went in the 2nd Half....as Pittsburgh would cut the lead to one score the Bungles would extend it to 2 scores. With the game on the line....the Steelers up 31-30 it was all on the Defense and they couldn't get a stop when it mattered most.....costing the Steelers a 33-31 Defeat in the Jungle of Cincy. When you score 31 points in a game you should win the damn game but this wasn't enough tonight.

Bungles have a QB who's been on the roster a full 8 days and the worst running game in the NFL averaging 56 yards rushing per game......The Steelers Defense says "HOLD MY BEER" and goes out today and takes a giant **** on the field tonight! The Bungles scored on 7 of 8 drives to end this game after a dismal first quarter. The only drives the Steelers managed to force the Bungles to punt was when the Bungles receivers dropped throws on 3rd down. The Bungles ran for 142 yds & Flacco faced little to no pressure tonight throwing for 342 yds & 3 TD's. As early as the 2nd Quarter we saw the Bungles start running these post corner routes to Higgins & Chase and they kept doing it the entire game right down to the last drive and the Steelers Defense had no answer for it. No adjustments at Halftime and no adjustments in the 2nd Half to take those routes away. I can't even remember more than 3 splash plays from the Defense tonight.....the sacks by Benton & Watt and maybe Chuck Clark tackling the RB after the ball was throw to him for a 6yd loss. The Defense had nothing tonight! Pretty pathetic to find a worse Defensive effort than tonight. This Defense might be worse than last season.....I'm almost sure of it. My stats sheet shows 0 tackles for TJ Watt tonight. PATHETIC!

Make no mistake about it.....this Steelers team needs a solid #2 WR and they better make a trade quick before the Nov 4th trade deadline. I don't care when Calvin Austin returns he is not a capable #2 WR. We had a capable #2 WR and we traded the kid to Dallas and he's proving he's not only capable of being a #2 WR but he's done a great job filling in for CeeDee Lamb. Safe to say they made a big mistake letting Pickens go. Just imagine if Chuck Noll had traded Mean Joe Greene due to his bad attitude in his early years.

Per Tomlin's Post Game:
No injuries to report

Game Balls:
Jaylen Warren - 127 yds rushing, 4 rec 31 yds
Pat Freiermuth - 5 rec, 111 yds 2 TD's

Game Goats:
Entire Steelers Defense - Absolute TRASH the entire game! Bunch of Slack Jawed ******* gave up 142 yd rushing to the worst rushing team in the NFL

FU's:
FU to Mike Tomlin for tossing around Joe Flacco's name this week.....giving the Bungles bulletin board material! Keep your ******* mouth SHUT!
Teryl Austin - Your a terrible Defensive Coordinator or Defensive St00ge for Tomlin to blame all his short comings on. Which one is it?

We HAD 2 WR1 with Pickens

Warrens TD run that was called back was absolutely ridiculous.

I woke up this morning and didn't really feel too bad despite the loss.
We have been watching this defense for long enough to expect them to not show up when it counts.
We know Cam has never shown up in the big game. NOT ONCE
We know the defensive is old and its tough on a short week.
Ramsey has made some huge plays this season so far, last night he was putrid but he was lining up against the best in the game.
JPJ the Penalty machine, we knew he is soft and he sucks even against good WR #2 and 3's. He was overdrafted due to his dad, Just like Marvin Harrison JR
We are learning Payton Wilson is also too small and undersized, also overdrafted.


Last night was exactly what the educated fans have come to expect from a Mike Tomlin coached Defense.

But
There are some big positives.
Broderick Jones was not the problem for the second week in a row.
Rodgers still has it and looked way more mobile than I would have thought.
Jaylen Warren is running like a man processed.
Freiermuth must have heard everyone calling him out and had a career day. Although he did drop one late he should have had. again
If DK Metcalf doesn't get the ball ripped away by a guy he outweighs by 40 pounds? We win.

We actually have an offense that can compete with a good QB. Yes we did it against a bad defense but its still a huge improvement.

I am happier after this loss than alot of empty wins by Boswell last season by 3 points. Wins that felt good in the moment even though we knew the offense was totally broken.

 

[topseed]

Years ago, Higgins would have done what Muth did - ran into the end zone and scored a TD while leaving time on the clock. The fact that Higgins slid and Muth did not, changes everything.

Higgins made a smart play, without a doubt. Drain the clock down to 7 seconds, kick a chipshot field goal, and the game is basically over. However, you can't expect Freiermuth to slide in his circumstance, because it would have been a stupid decision if he had done so.

The Steelers needed a touchdown to take the lead, not a field goal. You saw how they botched the tush push earlier in the game which resulted in a penalty and a 4th-and-6. You can't assume that they can just run three plays and automatically score a TD on fourth down. Besides, there was still 2:21 left on the clock. The Bengals had two timeouts and the two-minute warning; they still would have gotten the ball back with plenty of time.

Those two situations are completely different, and Pat did absolutely nothing wrong. It's on that lame *** historic defense for not being able to stop Cincinnati all night.

 

[Avoid_Lloyd]

We HAD 2 WR1 with Pickens

Warrens TD run that was called back was absolutely ridiculous.

I woke up this morning and didn't really feel too bad despite the loss.
We have been watching this defense for long enough to expect them to not show up when it counts.
We know Cam has never shown up in the big game. NOT ONCE
We know the defensive is old and its tough on a short week.
Ramsey has made some huge plays this season so far, last night he was putrid but he was lining up against the best in the game.
JPJ the Penalty machine, we knew he is soft and he sucks even against good WR #2 and 3's. He was overdrafted due to his dad, Just like Marvin Harrison JR
We are learning Payton Wilson is also too small and undersized, also overdrafted.


Last night was exactly what the educated fans have come to expect from a Mike Tomlin coached Defense.

But
There are some big positives.
Broderick Jones was not the problem for the second week in a row.
Rodgers still has it and looked way more mobile than I would have thought.
Jaylen Warren is running like a man processed.
Freiermuth must have heard everyone calling him out and had a career day. Although he did drop one late he should have had. again
If DK Metcalf doesn't get the ball ripped away by a guy he outweighs by 40 pounds? We win.

We actually have an offense that can compete with a good QB. Yes we did it against a bad defense but its still a huge improvement.

I am happier after this loss than alot of empty wins by Boswell last season by 3 points. Wins that felt good in the moment even though we knew the offense was totally broken.

Good post, I agree with 90% of it.

My only disagreement is on the young QB statement. If we had a head coach who would allow a young QB to develop you’re right. Tomlin lets Rodgers use the whole field, it’s the first time some of the passes we’ve seen this season have happened since Arians was canned, unless we are down by 2 scores. My fear is Tomlin will go back to cave man ball with any rookie QB and never allow him the freedom to develop into a top player.

I’d love to see Tomlin retire before we draft our next QB, I don’t think Tomlin’s approach to the game (unless he has someone with the credibility of Rodgers) will ever allow a QB to develop

 

[xjx]

Yea. He is a control freak. Especially with a rookie. I would think he would be overbearing on a rookie qb. The young qb would likely need psychological rehabilitation. He would never be the same.