Steelers @ Baltimore

[antdrewjosh]

I and others have many times in this thread; you keep blowing off the question. You respond with, "personnel decisions are different, let's talk gameplanning"



Yet again.. the offensive gameplan sucks. Nothing but short throws; even on third-and-long, we throw a 4-yard pass into coverage. Too much run-run-curl-punt. The stale blitz packages that never work anymore without good pass rushers. The cushions in coverage. The fourth-quarter punt and the FGs are kinda judgement calls but not really. Statistically speaking, the chances of making a 4th-and-short are much better than people think, and the benefit of three points is much lower than people think. Especially when you're down by multiple scores, which Tomlin never cares about.

We play FOR field goals. Once we hit the 30, we take our foot of the gas playcalling-wise and just thank the opposing team for the FG attempt.

The on-field play stems at least in part from coaching. Marcus Gilbert clearly sucks, so why not alter the blocking scheme? Jarvis and Worilds can't win their battles, so why not blitz a DB or something? The secondary is sitting deep to wipe out the deep ball, so why not use liberal play-action? And so on.



When it's a constant miscue. If a team is heavily penalized for years and years in a row, I start to wonder.

And once again what was missed two wide open short passes that our franchise QB missed. One is possibly a TD. Thats on coaching. Your saying the line sucks but you want to call longer routes that take more time to get open.

You want to go for it 4th and long inside your own 35 or whatever it was just because...

Play action. Oh that thing that works when you establish a running game.

Like I said arguing drafts free agent signings is one thing. Arguing guys not doing their job is another. Players have to make plays. They didnt tonite and not becsuse the coaches didnt have them in position. They got beaten. Cant say they werent prepared they drove right down the field til Brown turned into a *****. But wait thats on coaching i bet.

 

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And once again what was missed two wide open short passes that our franchise QB missed. One is possibly a TD. Thats on coaching. Your saying the line sucks but you want to call longer routes that take more time to get open.

So the answer is NO deep balls at all?

You want to go for it 4th and long inside your own 35 or whatever it was just because...

Tomlin felt that we could punt, then not only get the ball back three times within 7-8 minutes left, but score all three times? Yeah, sound logic.

Face it: whether we punted or went for it and failed, the game would be over either way. Punting just means there's ZERO chance of scoring on this drive, and you're now trying to force three straight three-and-outs AND score on all three drives.

Play action. Oh that thing that works when you establish a running game.

Le'Veon chewed the Ravens apart all night.

Like I said arguing drafts free agent signings is one thing. Arguing guys not doing their job is another. Players have to make plays. They didnt tonite and not becsuse the coaches didnt have them in position. They got beaten. Cant say they werent prepared they drove right down the field til Brown turned into a *****. But wait thats on coaching i bet.

And you're blowing off drafts, FA, etc. "Oh, that's a different thing, now onto a new topic please." It's pretty goddamned important, even though it hurts your boy's case.

So your stance is that the players are well-coached in practice, but **** up a ton assignments and get flagged constantly nearly every week, for two years plus? That makes sense.

 

[antdrewjosh]

Just because none were attempted doesnt mean none were called. Need the all 22 look to know for sure.

Who is blowing off drafts and free agency? I said thats a valid point. But once the game starts players play. If you want to say they blew it in the evalution process fine. No problem with that. Because i agree Cam Thomas not impressed. Jarvis and Worlids i got nothing. But to say that coaching could of done something i dont agree. Those players have to win their matchup.

Leveon Bell scratched and clawed all nite nothing to be running play action off of and expect to fool somebody with. He wasnt gashing them.. That being said he has been the best player thru two weeks.

No thats not my stance. We all knew the Defense was a work in progress. That the O would have to carry us. Ben didnt have his best game left some throws on the field. And the Brown and Heath fumbles didnt help..