Loose Slag from The Still Mill

Loose Slag from The Still Mill

- Having re-watched the game twice on DVR, I can assure folks that few tasks are more distasteful.� Really painful.�� Almost as bad as dental work without Novocain.�

- The defensive follies, failures, and fa�ade can be examined here.�

- The late 2-minute drill that looked like a Chinese fire drill should come as no surprise.�� Just last season, The Idiot Arians said, on the late 2M drill that produced exactly zero yards versus Cinci:��

���� "We were just trying to get the ball down the field deeper because we needed chunks," offensive imbecile Bruce Arians said. "We didn't protect very well. We had to go a long way. We couldn't nickel-and-dime our way down there with that amount of time."��

���� �In that �09 loss, the Stillers still had one timeout.� The drive started at the Stiller 33.�� There was 1:49 remaining on the clock.� In that case, ya don�t need to throw 53-yard bombs to move 67 yards in 1:49.� 3 nites ago, the offense began at the 13 with 1:59 and 1 TO, and took the same approach.....forcing the ball down the field when there was no need to. �The defense is SITTING BACK in a PREVENT defense, giving you plenty of open room on short & medium routes.� We have excellent RAC runners in Ward, Wally, Brown, Randle El, and Moore.� Three (3) medium range completions, with RAC, of, say, 15 yards a piece would put the ball roughly at the GB 40.� Now, you�re in striking range, as opposed to flailing about like a beached whale on your own 33 on 3rd & 4th down and 5.��

- At which bank did Tomlin deposit that unused, final timeout?��� He�s apparently earning a ton of interest with all of these deposits.��

- On the bright side, the Stillers did set a Super Bowl record on the offensive side of the ball.� Their 6 (six) 0-step hitch/bubble screens established a new record, which formerly was 4.� Arians is surely beaming with pride.� �

- As much as Arians loves throwing the 0-step hitch to Wally, I remain convinced he�s the wrong guy for the job.�� Although fast, Wally is long-legged and easy to tackle that close to the LOS and in that much traffic.�� He rarely can stop on the dime and juke.�� This play actually requires the skills of a Metcalf, a Ward, even a Tonio Holmes.�� Wally can be a fed a bone now and then on this kind of play, but 5 times in 1 game is patently absurd.��

- We like �im, but Isaac Redman screwed the offense on his late KO return.�� He snared the squib kick at 2:07.� His coaches should have warned him and prepped him, but probably did not.�� Instead of diving forward for a few yards and getting DOWN for a clock stoppage prior to the 2MW, Redman ran into a small scrum, then broke away and actually veered backwards and sideways.�� By the time he was tackled, the clock sat at 1:59.�� He very easily should have been stopped at 2:01 or even 2:02, so that the offense had a free TO after its first play.

- Fox royally screwed up with his late pers foul flag.�� On Fox�s behalf, Crabtree -- the same bitch who grabbed and threw down Timmons on a short-yardage play in the 1Q -- got locked up with Fox several seconds before the flag, and even had his hands clearly in the facemask of Fox.� Of course, no flag was called for that, and of course the revenge push is the one that is most always called.�

- On the late 3d & 5, Moore was fairly wide open on a mid dump, but Ben was, as always, laser-focused on Wally.�� Likewise, on the 2nd INT, which was jammed to Wally, the DB had jumped the play and Miller was WIDE open downfield on the left sector of the field.��� WIDE open.��

- All the outrage toward Mendenhall over the 4Q fumble is grossly misplaced.� Go re-watch this play yourself.� Legursky pulls on this play, and Johnson is the blocking FB.�� Both should at least get a hat on a defender.�� Neither does.� Legursky, out of his element as a short-area brawler, gimpily pulls and does nothing.�� Johnson encounters 2 defenders -- Leggo should have gotten 1 of them -- and unbelievably acts like a ball-carrying FB and cleverly knifes his way between them !� The result is a sandwich, 3-yards deep in the backfield, on a RB who just got the ball a split-second prior.��

�- James Starks had 2 fairly long runs, of 12 and 14 yards.� Both came directly at Big LaMarr Woodley, who is incredibly poor at setting the edge the way it should be set as an OLB in the NFL.�� Let us hope he played his final game in the black n� gold.�

- The pattern Jennings ran for the 4Q TD was even worse than I�d initially thought.� This was a designed banana route, with no cut whatsoever toward the middle of the field. �Jennings ran a sloppy, rounded route that never veered from his intent to take it to the far corner.�� I have no idea why Pola jumped this route so rabidly.�

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- Taunto Farrior never left the field on defense.�� Here you have a slow LB who is the weakest pass rusher of the 4 LBs, as well as the weakest pass defender not named Woodley.� WHY, then, was he incessantly left on the field for every single play?��� Asinine stupidity at its worst.��

- Pained as we are, we remain proud here at Stillers.com for our astute, spot-on pre-game analysis, which accurately predicted the how�s and the why�s of this grisly loss.�� No other media outlet in the entire country can stake this claim.�� NONE.�� We continue to lead the way in the analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers.��

Still Mill and Stillers.com -- �When it comes to the analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers, no one else comes close�.�