Archer is the third RB..he is going to get a hat. It was Brown vs Bryant.
Archer is the third RB..he is going to get a hat. It was Brown vs Bryant.
But wait, I thought this team had no talent. I thought Tomlin's drafts and acquisitions were all garbage. In fact, isn't every bad thing that happens to this team ENTIRELY his fault? If someone gets mugged in the parking lot, isn't that Tomlin's fault because "he's the coach"?
The man is humiliating you and the rest of the traitors. Eat your crow, suck on your humble pie, and accept that your traitorous *** has been exposed for the fake fan that you are.
GO STEELERS! (capitalized for the traitor *** *******)
Was Bryant really still hurt in week 4 vs. Tampa Bay? What did Archer do? We were bottom 5 in points per red zone possession and no one in the coaching staff thought "Hey, maybe activating Bryant instead of Archer could help us there..."
No, that couldn't possibly have happened.
Again, I just doubt the coaching speak that everything they did was perfect and the reason Bryant is so "ready" now and doing well. I call bullshit. Bryant should have started getting red zone snaps immediately in this offense. He should have had a hat unless the injury report said "doubtful" or "out". Especially when we didn't have Moore.
I'm just glad he's finally in there. I'm glad he's gaining confidence in his ability. And hopefully he's not a head case like Sweed and uses his talent to become a professional athlete. We will see if he can keep it up.
I think sometimes people look to hard to find a conspiracy.
Maybe Archer approached the game more maturely, and Bryant simply had to develop a little more of that. That is as believable to me as your scenario, probably moreso. What if they put Bryant in too early, when he wasn't ready, and he had some failure? A lot of playing sports is mental. Seems to me they waited until exactly thew right time. Now you have a guy who has had positive experiences. Bryant did not look at all like this in the preseason, don't forget.
I have often thought about Limas Sweed in this regard. If he would have just been able to catch one or two of those ones he dropped, would have it turned out differently? Once you realize you can do something, that is big.
Hard to put someone on the field when they are injured. They were considering putting him on the injured return list. Four weeks injured, two weeks getting caught up, there's your six weeks.
and not to be confused with the assumption that Bryant would have performed just as well weeks ago and/or has learned nothing over the first few weeks of the season.
That would mean two weeks made the difference between a guy unable to contribute and the dynamic guy we see today. I don't think it's a conspiracy so much as a slight failure in evaluation. Archer has contributed nothing except being yanked off KR; I can't imagine Bryant being less ready than him. Especially since he was fantastic in his debut just two weeks later.
I've wondered the same thing. Sweed got open plenty as a Steeler, after all.
Actually, Bryant began to practice in full on September 9th. It only took Tomlin five weeks. I stand corrected.
From Rotoworld on September 18th:
"Steelers WR Martavis Bryant (shoulder) is practicing in full for Week 3. Bryant also practiced in full for Week 2, but was scratched against the Ravens."
Just make up anything you want. Guys like FAB802 will believe you.
Matt Spaeth had like, 3 redzone TDs as a rookie to start the season, IIRC. Why couldn't Martavis have done the same as soon as he was healthy? He caught 5 as soon as he was activated.
According to this, Martavis practiced in full starting in Week 2, but was inactive. In Week 5 he was inactive due to illness, but he was still inactive for Week 6 and debuted in Week 7.
http://www.rotoworld.com/recent/nfl/9416/martavis-bryant
They chose not to dress him starting Week 2.
Actually, Bryant began to practice in full on September 9th. It only took Tomlin five weeks. I stand corrected.
From Rotoworld on September 18th:
"Steelers WR Martavis Bryant (shoulder) is practicing in full for Week 3. Bryant also practiced in full for Week 2, but was scratched against the Ravens."
Just make up anything you want. Guys like FAB802 will believe you.
Yes, I'm willing to assume that Bryant would have performed just as well or better than Justin Brown did.
No, now Tomlin is holding out better players to tank games, so we can suck and pick higher, so we can suck again at that too. The vicious cycle never ends.
No, now Tomlin is holding out better players to tank games, so we can suck and pick higher, so we can suck again at that too. The vicious cycle never ends.
Just happy we have some good coordinators...Tomlin is coming around...
If you think a coach with a 70+ win % who is 22nd best all time for his first 7 years is just coming around you need some help.
Help me....just saying he has good coordinators, sparky...
Still think he was in shock at some in game stuff. Like clock management, challenges, etc....I like that things are coming together.
I forgot that his winning percentage has nothing to do with the players and other coaches. my bad. Sorry.
Just happy we have some good coordinators...Tomlin is coming around...
If you think a coach with a 70+ win % who is 22nd best all time for his first 7 years is just coming around you need some help.
I would like to point out too the people trying to call people out as Tomlin haters and constantly implying that it's a race issue, that the Tomlin criticism went way down after the Steelers started playing up to the standard as Tomlin might say. Doesn't that prove that the complaints were results based and not based on any personal or racial bias against Tomlin? I mean, if everyone was just hating on the black guy, then they'd still be wanting Tomlin fired.
I also thought that there was an illness issue on one occasion that may have prevented him from playing in one of those weeks and kept him from preparing adequately in the following week.