Dick’s 2012 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 the Defense’s 2012 season.
The vaunted Stiller defense was again supposedly “the #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 offense only did such and such” and the 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.
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 His schemes are tired, worn, and as out of date as a leisure suit.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.
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 defense this defense faced in 2012.
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W-L |
Score |
QB faced |
Def. Pts allowed |
TDs allowed |
Rush Allowed |
Pass Allowed |
INTs |
FFs |
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Notes |
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@ Denv |
L |
19-31 |
P. Manning |
25 |
3 |
94 |
253 |
0 |
1 |
|
Was given leads of 3-0, 10-7, 13-7 and 19-14, but pissed each lead away as quickly as a cat pisses after supper. Allowed 10 4Q points to the Donco offense. Dick managed to "hold" Manning to a passer rating 129.2 in first game after an entire season lost to injury. Manning finished 19 of 26, and was never stopped from scoring points once DEN went no huddle in the 2Q (4 of 4 in drives; 3 TDs and a FG). DEN had TOP of only 36 secs in 3Q, but needed only 2 plays to cover 80 yards. Scoring drives were of 80, 80, 80, and 55 (FG). FF was on a fluke blind backhanded slap by Foote on the RB (McGahee), who simply carelessly fumbled. |
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Jets |
W |
27-10 |
Sanchez |
10 |
1 |
90 |
138 |
0 |
0 |
|
Jets scored on their 1st 2 drives, that being a 90-yard TD march and then a 12 play, 61-yard FG drive. Early in the 2Q, Sanchez took a huge shot to the head from Timmons, and was never the same thereafter, misfiring on a host of scattershot attempts. Also early in the 2Q, starting RB Shonn Greene took a legal shot to the head from Mundy and wobbled to the sideline, and played sparingly therafter. Only FF of the game was a muffed punt by a Jets punt returner. Steeler offense had a massive 36:36 TOP, including a 4Q drive that chewed up over 10 minutes of clock. . |
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@ Oak |
L |
31-34 |
Palmer |
34 |
4 |
119 |
209 |
1 |
0 |
|
OAK lost starting WR Darius Heyward-Bey early in the 4Q (14:35 4Q) , as he had to be carted off the field. PIT Offense had 12.5 minute advantage in TOP over OAK. This was an 0-2 OAK team with the WORST 3rd down conversion rate in the NFL; an offense that scored only 14 and 13 points its 1st 2 games; plus it played the last quarter without its best WR, Darius Heyward-Bey....yet the Supreme Lord of Defensive Coaching couldn’t stop them AT ALL. Dick somehow urinated away not one, but two 10-point leads in the 2H against the lowly Raiders. |
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Eagles |
W |
16-14 |
Vick |
14 |
2 |
78 |
175 |
0 |
2 |
|
Game played in wet, damp, drizzly rain, on a marshy field that negated Philly's Big 3 of Vick, McCoy, and Jackson. This was no weather and no atmosphere for prolific offense on a day like this. With 2 fumbles today, Vick "The Fumbling Machine" has fumbled eight times in five games, lost five of them, turned the ball over four times inside the red zone and accounted for 11 of the Eagles’ 14 turnovers. Steelers were up by 10 at the half, and up by 6 in the 4Q. PHI had the ball only 3 times in the 2H -- an 80-yard TD drive; a punt; and a 79-yard TD drive in the 4Q to give PHI a 1-point lead. Over the last decade in the NFL, the chances of winning a game that you are trailing by 10 points at halftime have been only 18 percent. The chances of winning that same game if you also lose the turnover battle have been 9.6 percent. The Eagles are averaging only 16 points per game through five games, and only one team in NFL history ever made the playoffs with a lower average in a 16-game season - the '78 Atl. Falcons. Eagles are now the 2nd lowest scoring team in the entire NFL. Vick has now lost 5 fumbles in 5 games this season, and he ended the '12 season with 45 turnovers the past 2 seasons combined, more than any other QB, even though injuries allowed him to play in only 23 of a possible 32 regular season games. |
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@ Tenn. |
L |
23-26 |
Hassellbeck |
26 |
2 |
94 |
290 |
1 |
0 |
|
5th time in past 6 games that the defense surrendered go-ahead points on its final possession on the field. Tenn tied the game late in 4Q on 80 yard march in 3:59, then won it late in regulation on a 5 play, 33 yard drive for an easy FG. INT was by Timmons. One TD drive by Tenn was only 1 yard; set up by blocked punt. Hassellbeck went 25 of 44 for 290 yards. Chris Johnson had 19 rushes, 91 yds. TENN dropped 4 passes, 1st half. A couple more were dropped in the 2H. Once again, the Steeler defense, led by the Almighty Defensive Coach himself, Dick LeBeau, manages to fritter away a 7-point 4th Qtr lead by allowing an 80 yard TD march, followed by a 33 yard drive for the game-winning FG. That's FOUR out of 5 games this year where this defense's last stand of the game has watched the opponent SCORE POINTS. TENN had not scored a TD in their last 31 drives that began at or inside their 20. Sure enough, with the game on the line, Dick allowed an 80-yard TD march to tie the game late in the 4Q. Dick and the Steeler defense scored a hat trick -- |
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@ Cinc |
W |
24-17 |
Dalton |
17 |
2 |
80 |
105 |
1 |
0 |
|
As is usual, Dick stood by helplessly as Cinci took over on its first possession, down 3-0 on its own 20, and then marched 80 yards in 15 plays for a cake-easy, go-ahead TD in the 1Q. Cinci did whatever it wanted to on that drive -- gashed the D on runs, converted 3rd downs (and even a 4th down), and completed passes with all the ease of a skeleton drill. Then, on Cinci’s next-after possession, Dick had a chance to make a stand at the Steeler 8, but instead softly and meekly allowed a TD on the 1st play for an 8-yard TD pass. Dalton was scattershot all day long, and Cinci had only 2 RBs active for this game due to injury. Lone turnover was on a fluke play in which Dalton pump faked, but the ball left his hand, then hit the RT in the helmet before falling softly in the arms of OLB L. Woodley, who was standing in no-man's land doing all of nothing on the play. |
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vs. Wash |
W |
27-12 |
Griffin (rookie) |
12 |
1 |
86 |
177 |
0 |
0 |
|
Wash receivers/backs dropped 12 passes -- not 7, as some media sites claim -- in what was a fairly tight game thru 3-1/2 quarters. |
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@ NYG |
W |
24-20 |
E. Manning |
13 |
1 |
68 |
125 |
1 |
0 |
|
Game occurred 5 days after NY and NJ had been devastated and flooded by Hurricane Sandy. Counting this game and the Giants' loss the following week to Cinci, E. Manning now has a QB rating of 60 thru those 4 games. Lone INT was on a wouded quail of a pass -- with very little pressure on the QB -- on a deep lob down the sideline that was hideously underthrown, and Ike basically fair-caught the freebie INT. Woodley had a FF but NY rrecovered. |
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vs. KC |
W |
16-13 (OT) |
Matt Cassel |
13 |
1 |
142 |
154 |
1 |
0 |
|
KC came into this game with the most TOs in NFL, 29. They were missing starting WR Steve Breaston, who did not dress. KC hadn’t led in regulation, AT ALL, the entire season….and then Dick allows a 4-play, 70 yard TD march to give KC the lead at 8:37 1Q. In the 3Q, the Chefs had a TD called back due to a phantom holding call and then their PK missed a chippie FG. Starting WR Jon Baldwin left the game due to injury early in the 4Q. Late in the game, the vaunted “#1 defense” had a chance to close out the game, but instead gagged on several occasions, not the least of which was a 4th & 15 with 22 secs remaining that KC converted for a 27-yard gain to set up a tying FG. This drive began at the KC 20, with KC having zero timeouts, yet they effortlessly marched into easy FG range and booted the tying FG as regulation ended. |
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vs. Balt. |
L |
10-13 |
Flacco |
3 |
0 |
47 |
164 |
0 |
1 |
|
Lone Raven TD came off punt return. |
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@ Clev |
L |
14-20 |
Weeden (Rookie) |
20 |
2 |
99 |
158 |
1 |
0 |
|
McCoy subbed for Weeden in the final couple of minutes. PIT offense committed 7 turnovers. |
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@ Balt |
W |
23-20 |
Flacco |
20 |
2 |
111 |
188 |
1 |
1 |
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vs. S.D. |
L |
24-34 |
Rivers |
27 |
3 |
94 |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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Rivers tossed 3 TD passes. |
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@ Dall. |
L |
24-27 (OT) |
Romo |
27 |
3 |
87 |
341 |
0 |
1 |
|
The defense didn't have an interception for the seventh time in 14 games and has just seven thus far for the season. Harrison had lone FF. Defense got savagely shredded by Tony Homo. |
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vs. Cinci |
L |
10-13 |
Dalton |
3 |
0 |
14 |
278 |
2 |
1 |
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|
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vs. Clev |
W |
24-10 |
Thad Lewis |
10 |
1 |
103 |
204 |
1 |
3 |
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Clev. was also missing starting RB Trent Richardson. |
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. Thad Lewis. HasselJack. Cassel. Sanchez. Palmer. Vick. They all suck ass as NFL QBs. Lead after lead was urinated away, and what should have been easy wins over OAK and TENN were pissed away when this Softee Defense couldn’t hold a lead. Thus, this 8-8 tam could have easily walked into the playoffs as a 10-6 division winner. Thanks to Dick and his mind numbing senility, they did not.
As a team, the Steelers ranked 27th in the NFL in percentage of passes intercepted. For those who cannot interpret this, allow me to -- it sucks. Ass. Big time. Their 20 takeaways ranked 24th in the league, and their 37 sacks were middle of the pack. Again, that sucks ass.
The Steelers' “No. 1 ranked defense” was “anchored” by a secondary that led the league with just 185.2 yards against through the air. Part of that can be explained by the fact that the team faced just 523 attempts against last year -- only five teams faced fewer. Again, this is a major reason why overall defense stats are so meaningless. This isn’t baseball, where the opponent always gets 27 outs (or 24, if the home team is ahead in the 9th.)
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.
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) -- 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.
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