Dicks 2013 Game by game breakdown -- The Farce Continues to be Exposed

August 23, 2014 by Still Mill

Dick’s 2013 Game by game breakdown -- The Farce Continues to be Exposed

Continuing a task we’ve been doing here for a few years now, we present the game by game breakdown of Dick the defense’s 2013 season. Thursday night’s embarrassing ass-raping – in which Dick stood by helpless as the Philly starting offense and then the 2nd team offense savagely ravaged Dick – spurred me to knock this out prior to the start of the regular season.

The vaunted Stiller defense began 2013 as the supposedly “reigning #1 ranked defense”, which, of course, means jack shit. What matters is a defense imposing its will; inflicting punishment; and producing wins.

(We here at Stillers.com have previously exposed Dick LeBeau for the entire world to see. Those articles can be found here, here, here, here, and 2011 game-by-game recap here.)

Coach Dick LeBeau has long feasted on kreme and krimpet all season along, facing one dreg of a QB after another and getting away with shoddy, stale schemes. In the playoffs, he typically gets savagely ravaged and eaten alive. The farce has indeed been exposed.

Of course, you’ll hear the babble and fury that “the Stiller offense only did such and such” and “the Stiller offense didn’t do its part.” On a team where the vast majority of salary cap dollars, and talent, is applied to the DEFENSE, why do people thing that the offense should be top-tier? Resources follow priorities. And on this team, Kevin Colbert has applied the majority of his financial resources to the DEFENSE, not the offense. Ergo, it is imperative that the defense shoulders a larger portion of performance and responsibility. Simple, really....unless one is a simpleton.

I'd quite correctly pointed out ALL season long -- - this defense was a paper tiger, propped up by the kreme and krimpet of weak, inept offenses it faced and an enormous plethora of totally inept QBs. Here is a game-by-game recap of what opponent and what offense this defense faced in 2013.

	W-L	Score	QB faced	Def. Pts allowed	TDs allowed	Rush Allowed	Pass Allowed	INTs	FFs	Notes
Tenn	L	19-31	Jake Locker	16	1	112	125	0	0	Tenn had the 26th ranked offense in 2012. Allowed a 49-yard TD march in the 2Q, in which the Titans ran the ball 11 out of the 12 plays, with the lone pass falling inc. Faced QB J. Locker, a 3rd year greenhorn making his 12th career start. Last season, Locker started 11 games and threw more INTs than TDs (11 to 10), but of course threw zero INTs vs. Dick's vaunted defense.
@ Cinci	L	20-10	Dalton	20	2	127	280	0	0	Dalton was scattershot the entire evening, despite faacing very, very little pass rush pressure. Cinci scored TDs on long marches of 87 and 78 yards, and iced the game in the 4Q with a clock-chewing FG drive of 14 plays that consuumed nearly 7 minutes of time. Steeler defense is now the only team in the NFL without a forced turnover. ESPN.com said after the game: "Everything that I’m used to seeing from — and thinking about — the Steelers was missing Monday night. They didn’t run well. None of their pass-catchers enhanced a play beyond what the scheme called for. Their defense still hasn’t forced a turnover this season. Indeed, the Bengals averaged a modest 5.2 yards per play, but they managed to run 79 of them because the Steelers couldn’t get them off the field." CBS Sports.com said after the game: "The Bengals put the Steelers in that position by winning the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, and by being tougher — not just physically tougher, but mentally. The Steelers were the team that got pushed around because they were the weaker team. The softer team. The more Bengal-ly team, if we’re talking the luckless loser Bengals for most of the past 20 years and not the playoff teams of 2011 and ’12."
Bears	L	23-40	Cutler	34	4	107	159	0	0
Vikes	L	27-34	Cassel (2d stringer)	34	4	145	248	0	0	Game played in London. Peterson gashed Dick's D for a long TD run and the rout was on.
@ NYJ	W	19-6	Geno Smith (Rookie)	6	0	83	201	2	0	Both INTs were Dong INTs due to horrific mis-fires by the rookie QB, with each pass way off the mark and then grabbed in Larry Brown fasion. Jets were without WR Santonio Holmes.
Ravens	W	19-16	Flacco	16	1	82	215	0	0	Steeler offense dominated TOP in 1H. The Stillers took the 7-0 lead midway thru the 1Q, but sure as a dog shits on a sidewalk, Dick allows the Ravens to march right back. Jacco went 5 for 5 on a long, laborious 9-play drive, including two 3rd down conversions, and the Ravens booted a FG to slice the lead to 7-3. PIT was up 10-3 late in the 2Q, but Dick's D allowed a short FG drive after a Miller fumble for a chippie 38-yard FG just before halftime. In the 2H, Dick got eaten alive by the woeful Balt offense. After a Suisham FG boosted the lead to 13-3 in the 3Q, Dick promptly allowed a long, grinding 11 play, 66-yard drive that resulted in a chippie FG. Dick then allowed Jacco to go 9 for 10 on a 16-play, 73 yard drive to TIE the game at 1:58 4Q. Luckily the Stiller offense garned a FG drive to obtain the winning points as the gameclock expired. How 'bout that "vaunted defense" of Dick St. LeBeau? Playing at home, with the crowd roaring and providing energy, LeBeau stood hapless and helpless as the Ravens marched 12 plays, 66 yards for a 4th Qtr FG to slice the lead to 7, and then a long, clock chewing 16 play, 73 yard march to TIE the game with less than 2 minutes left in the game. Did anyone really think, were this game to go into OT, that Dick would manage to stop the lowly Raven offense?
@ Oak	L	18-21	Pryor	21	3	197	88	2	1	Softee Defense allowed a 93-yard TD run on a QB keeper on the game's 1st play. Facing an inept offense such as OAK’s, Dick nevertheless got eaten alive in the 1H, when the lowly Raider offense produced 3 (THREE) touchdowns. The 2 INTs were purely Dong INTs on hideous misfires by Pryor.
@ Pats	L	31-55	Brady	55	7	197	432	0	1	Softee Defense quickly put the team into 14-0 and 17-3 holes. After Stillers made it 17-10 late in 1H, Dick quickly allowed NE to march 77 yards in 1:45 to score a TD with 10 secs left in the half. In the 3Q, the Stillers clawed back to tie it at 24. Then Dick totally shit the bed, allowing 31 points in an avlanche ot Patriot TDs, including an 81-yard TD pass that capped a 2-play drive that began at the NE 7. 4 times this season the NE offense has not even managed 300 yards of total offense. Today, it was over 600 against Dick and his vaunted defense. 197 yards rushing allowed. 432 yards passing allowed. The 55 points allowed were the most ever in Stiller franchise history. Brady finished with a QB rating of 158.1 for the game. A complete humiliation and embarrassment of Dick St. LeBeau. After this week, the Stillers D's 2 fumble recoveries are tied for next-to-last in the NLF; their measly 4 INTs are 1 from the fewest; and their whopping 6 take-aways aer also 1 from the fewest.
vs. Buff.	W	23-10	EJ Manuel (rookie)	10	1	95	155	1	0	Faced rookie QB, EJ Manuel, who’d sat out the past 4 games and had the commensurate rust. Star WR Stevie Johnson went to the locker room midway thru the 4Q with an injury. Lone INT was a classic Dong INT off a totally hideous pass by the greenhorned rookie. There isn’t much to be taken from this game. Playing at home, in windy conditions, against a greenhorn QB who hadn’t played since Oct. 3rd -- all of this made Dick’s job as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. This is precisely the kind of inept offense that Dick has managed to feast on and attain the gaudy -- and completely meaningless -- “#1 defensive ranking” the past few years.
vs. Detr.	W	37-27	Stafford	27	3	104	362	1	1	WR Nate Burleson was inactive. Starting TE Brandon Pettigrew injured a knee on the very 1st offensive play of the game. (He returned later in the quarter.) The right side of the DET OL are both ROOKIES. 1st drive - R. Bush wide open for 6 EASY points, pass overthrown with Zero presure on the QB. 2d drive - Ogletree was wide open on a bomb but the pass was hideously too long. Another 6 points. 3d drive - Pettigrew saw a pass go off his hands at the GL early in the 2Q, in what would have, and should have, been a TD. Lions settled for a FG on the next play, but they should have been lining up for a PAT instead. So, 18 points were taken off the board, all through the fault of Lion carelessness & ineptitude. As it was, the Lions scored 27 points in the 2Q alone. Luckily for Dick, it began raining much more in the 3Q, and the home-dome Lions started to struggle. DET marched to the PIT 10 and was set to boot a chippie FG to go ahead by 7 early in the 4Q, but their idiot HC tried a fake FG on 4th & 5 that came up short. Ogletree dropped a deep ball that hit him right in the numbers, 2:20 4Q. This should have been a 50+ yard gainer. Dick will be lauded and deified for “making the adjustments” at halftime. The reality is that the adjustment should have been made, oh, about SIX DAYS ago when they began in earnest preparing for the Lions passing attack. It was a brainless, assaholic scheme that Dick used in the 1H, giving Ike zero hlep over the top against MegaTrong. Period. There was 1 other FF was via the spec teams, when the Lions tried a fake FG and the holder was stripped of the ball by McLendon on the running attempt.
@ Clev	W	27-11	Jason Campbell, Brandon Weeden	11	1	56	333	1	3	Cakewalk win over creampuff opponent.
@ Balt	L	22-20	Flacco	22	1	74	251	0	1	Balt was 10 of 17 on 3rd down conversion (58%).
vs. Miami	L	34-28	Ryan Tannehill	34	4	181	200	1	0	Temp at kickoff was 25 degree, with a mixture of rain & snow. MIA ran for a season-high 181 yards — including 105 on 16 carries by Daniel Thomas. They scored more than 27 points for the first time all year. They managed a fourth-quarter offensive touchdown for the first time in eight games. Tannehill, who grew up in Western Texas and starred at Texas A&M, put together a performance that included 200 passing yards, three touchdown throws, one interception and a career-high 56 rushing yards, 48 of which came on one run. The Dolphins finished with a season-high 34 points.
vs. Cinci	W	30-20	Dalton	20	3	57	230	0	1
@ G.B.	W	38-31	Matt Flynn	31	4	151	232	1	1	Dick got shredded alive by a backup QB, and by a Packer rushing attack that gained 151 yards on 30 carries, a healthy 5 yards per crack.
vs. Clev	W	20-7	Jason Campbell	7	1	79	240	1	1	INT was a Dong INT, as a perfect pass clanged off the hands of the intended receiver. WR Josh Gordon caught 229 yards worth of passes in the first meeting, so naturally, the Browns targeted him, in the first half, twice, in which he caught one ball for 11 yards. Gordon finished with7 grabs for 82 yards.
								10	10	Feeble as shit turnover stats for a 16-game season.

As can be seen, loads of kreme and krimpet, and loads of shoddy, entirely subpar results given the plethora of shitbag QBs this defense should have feasted upon. Jake locker. Jason Campbell. Weeden. Tannehill. Pryor. TJ Manuel, a hapless rookie. They all suck ass as NFL QBs.

You’’ll hear babble about how the Stiller defense “improved in the 2nd half of the season. They didn’t improve at all; rather, they played a collective bag of inept offenses and incompetent QBs. When they face competent offenses with good QBs, such as Stafford and Brady, they were lit on fire as though they were douses in kerosene.

LeBeau, obviously, must go. His schemes are tired, worn, and as out of date as a leisure suit. Supposedly the "mastermind " who has "diabolical schemes" and "clever disguises", LeBeau fools NO ONE; he tricks NO ONE; he confuses NO ONE; and he does NOTHING out of the ordinary, given the VAST TALENT at his disposal and the vast majority of the team's salary cap dollars.

There is blindness amid the Steeler fan base, and it involves the blind worship and adulation of a defensive coordinator who has been provided an enormous abundance of talent and the vast majority of his team's cap dollars, and has done so very little. It involves the blind worship and adulation of a defensive coordinator who:

- urinated away a 4th quarter lead, at home, in the 2008 playoff loss

- urinated away a THIRTEEN point lead in the Super Bowl in Jan. 2009, and only Ben and Holmes' heroics saved him from disgrace

- urinated FIVE 4th quarter leads in the NON-playoff 2009 season

- got savagely shredded and picked apart in the 2011 Super Bowl.

- got savagely shredded and picked apart by THE WORST QB in the entire NFL in the playoff loss vs. Denver

Gee, that's some track record !! Quick -- someone submit this to the Hall of Fame !!

Of course, The Almighty Lord & Deity of Defensive Football has a long track record of choking and gagging late in games.

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_4639_Three-quarters_good%3A_Steelers%2C_Pats_in_unique_company.html

Little explanation is required, aside from the obvious conclusion that Dick LeBeau is a late-game choker of monumental proportions, who has no peer when it comes to gagging and choking away a late-game lead.

And remember, unlike other teams who have similar late-game choking, LeBeau had been lavished with a vast majority of his team’s salary cap, along with a massive preponderance of 1st & 2nd round draft picks, plus not 1, but 2 former DPOYs. Of course, you’ll hear furious babble and gospel trying to rationalize and justify Dick’s enormous shortcomings. But it all adds up to insurmountable evidence of how very little productive coaching and tactics Dick actually does, in comparison to the worship and adulation the man receives.

"3:16 LeBeau” (316 passing yards allowed to Timmy Tebow in the Jan. 2012 playoff loss) , aka Mister 55 (most points ever allowed by the Steelers, in the 2013 loss to New Eng. – aka “The Most Overrated Coordinator in the entire NFL " We here at Stillers.com were the first to expose The Dick as the farce that he is, and we shall continue to do so again this season.

(Still Mill and Stillers.com -- when it comes to the analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers, no one else comes close….)

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