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Not related to the current team, but since Big Ben was at the game today I thought this was a very cool stat.
Initial Thoughts on colts Game
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Look he is having a good year in as much as no one part of ST sucks, but on the flip side nothing is great either... save for FG kicking... the rest is mostly middle of the pack stuff...
But typically they are dysfunctional in one aspect... but thus far this year, they are ok
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He is 8-4 on the road on Sunday night. Tomlin is 2-1 on the road against them.Same. I'm thrilled with today's result, but I know better than get my hopes up. After beating the best (by record) team in the league with an impressive performance today, who do the Steelers play next?
The Chargers?
On the road, west coast game?
Sunday night, prime time?
Yeahhhhhhhhh about thaaaaaaaat....
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I agree with most of this. Against the Pats and some of our Raven games we got a lot of "fluke" turnovers. Today the defense created most of them. The level of defense is sustainable, but we can not continue to rely on turnovers and we need to get off the field on 3rd down.
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People wonder why Roman Wilson doesn't play more. Maybe he's an idiot. Showronek does not seem to be a fan.
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I was wondering why they would put rookie Caleb Johnson in the game late when you need to run out the clock. It's like it was his turn or something. Put your best players on the field in the most critical situations
Win by 7, at home, against a team that hands you SIX turnovers.
Soft.
The good news is that we're only four wins against bad teams away from hitting the Tomlin Standard of a 9-8 season.
Soft.
The good news is that we're only four wins against bad teams away from hitting the Tomlin Standard of a 9-8 season.
So we have the West coast Harbaughs up next
Another really important game...
In 18 years of coaching, Tomlin has hit double digits 11 times.. he had 183 regular season wins starting this year
183/18= roughly 10 wins per season...
He has had:
3 "8-8" seasons
4 "9 win" seasons
(though two of those seasons also had a tie, so more like 2 " 9 win and 2 9.5 win seasons)
4 "10 win" seasons
2 "11 win" seasons
4 "12 win"seasons
1 "13 win season
So it looks like we gotta win 5 to get to average
Another really important game...
Technically, "The standard" is 10-7
In 18 years of coaching, Tomlin has hit double digits 11 times.. he had 183 regular season wins starting this year
183/18= roughly 10 wins per season...
He has had:
3 "8-8" seasons
4 "9 win" seasons
(though two of those seasons also had a tie, so more like 2 " 9 win and 2 9.5 win seasons)
4 "10 win" seasons
2 "11 win" seasons
4 "12 win"seasons
1 "13 win season
So it looks like we gotta win 5 to get to average
Initial thought: You never know which Steelers team is going to show up when you turn on the TV.
Other thoughts:
1) Watt and the rest of the defense were much more emotionally invested today, and that seemed to help them all play better as a unit.
2) Joey Porter Jr. is seemingly good for 1+ pass interference/holding penalties a week. When will he learn how to cover in the NFL without putting his hands all over the receiver?
3) The Steelers went out and traded for DK Metcalf and are paying him $30 million a year. 4 targets is not enough.
4) After getting undressed against Ja'Marr Chase, moving Ramsey to safety was necessary. Although his cover skills have diminished, he is still a very good tackling DB.
5) Why even put Roman Wilson on the field late in the game after he'd barely played any snaps prior to that?
Other thoughts:
1) Watt and the rest of the defense were much more emotionally invested today, and that seemed to help them all play better as a unit.
2) Joey Porter Jr. is seemingly good for 1+ pass interference/holding penalties a week. When will he learn how to cover in the NFL without putting his hands all over the receiver?
3) The Steelers went out and traded for DK Metcalf and are paying him $30 million a year. 4 targets is not enough.
4) After getting undressed against Ja'Marr Chase, moving Ramsey to safety was necessary. Although his cover skills have diminished, he is still a very good tackling DB.
5) Why even put Roman Wilson on the field late in the game after he'd barely played any snaps prior to that?
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Watching the game with my son, I told him how blatantly disrespectful that was to the defense. Indy went for it on 4th down multiple times, some on their side of the 50. You don't do that if you're worried about being stopped. The defense made a lot of big plays today, but their success on 4th down was a problem. Even with that, I'll take a big win all day.
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Absolutely. The kid is finally getting run and he does that? Put your ******* head down and take your yards. That **** could have completely changed the mojo. He won't see major snaps again for a minute after that and rightfully so.
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While I'm happy with the win. I've seen this same movie a bunch of times.
They have had hoal line D issues for several years now... using an indersized NT is a problem in short yardage sets. The colts were going for it on their side of the field.
What shouldnt be lost last night is that the D still gave up 370 yards and the colts did get the late game pushback teams too often do vs the Austin/ Tomlin D.
All the turnovers masked problems that are still there...
I thought the rookie did a nice job while he was in there during that good drive late in the game.
In fact after they came back from commercial when they had the ball first and goal, I was disappointed to see Warren in there.
I was hoping they would allow a rookie to get his first professional touchdown considering he was the main back on that drive.
That’s the only way you get young guys the experience that they need to continue to improve their game and be relied upon later in the season.
Agreed.
Ridiculous decision by number 10.
In fact, if he just takes the yards and gets that first down, there is no excitement or drama the rest of that game.
Game completely over at that point. It will be interesting to see how Coach Tomlin handles that bonehead play, with playing time for the young man going forward.
I kind of disagree with that.
I’ve always thought that when a team consistently goes for it on fourth down, they either have no choice or the disrespect is more on the opposing teams offense than the defense. Especially when its on the wrong side of the 50... IMHO.
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I'm not young to be too hard on Wilson. Yes it was a dumb play, but it was an effort play. He might not have been sure he had the first down. I don't recall Wilson doing anything dumb other times he was on the field. I saw our returner in there a few times over Wilson which I don't understand. Both CAIII and Wilson have shown they are capable if given a shot. We just continue to put special teamers in there over them especially Wilson. This kind of reminds me of how we handled Claypool and JuJu. JuJu was tearing it up and we get a shiny new toy in Claypool and they totally abandon what was working with JuJu. All this talk of getting a #2 WR is not going to matter if we deploy 3 TEs and special teamers out there
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Sorry Jitter, being young and not understanding situational football as a professional athlete isn't a reasonable argument IMO. There are youth athletes playing and understanding where the "sticks" are both Offensively and Defensively. "Play to the sticks!" may be the single most repeated phrase yelled by coaches on game day. He knew where he was at and he made a boneheaded decision. Based on his limited snaps since coming back from his injury tells me the coaching staff also believes that he is a bonehead.
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The thing is, Ben Roethlisberger never received any officiating help along the way. Patty Mahomes can’t say that.
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I agree with all that you say but also just want to point out that the way they attached the Colts, did get them the win against arguably who most considered the BEST team in the NFL.
Yes, they will have to be better as the season / POs evolve and part of the win was surprise of not seeing or having tape on what the Steelers did.
Hopefully this crappy coaching staff (defense) can keep mthe surprises going…………….
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Can we just get this effort every week? Shutting down Taylor on the run was a big surprise.
The turnovers are why they won obviously. That being said the offense should have scored more points. Rodgers was off on some throws and the run game wasn't great.
And Joey Porter needs to stop celebrating until he can go a game without hanging on to someone and drawing a flag.
But 5-3 looks a heck of a lot better than 4-4 would have.
The turnovers are why they won obviously. That being said the offense should have scored more points. Rodgers was off on some throws and the run game wasn't great.
And Joey Porter needs to stop celebrating until he can go a game without hanging on to someone and drawing a flag.
But 5-3 looks a heck of a lot better than 4-4 would have.
The only add I have is the roughing call on Ramsey was wrong and should not have been a flag...
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Chargers look like they’ll be without LT Joe Alt.
