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Stillers-Bears Postgame Analysis and Grades has been posted by Still Mill at Stillers.com.

[stillchest Profile]

Thank you much, Mill.

Another fine to the point write up. I agree, with most of your analysis, however, I thought Woodley set the edged pretty well, against the run. We have had difficulty getting a pass rush, from everyone on D, thus far.

The secondary has been woeful in the first two weeks, so our blitzes seem less effective...opposing TE's are killing us in the short and intermediate passing game. Teams have seemingly, attacked our D with short dump offs..quick screens to negate our blitz.

I just don't agree that, Woodley was "Gildongish."

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Parker D (3 long gains doesnt make up for tippy toeing to the line for 3 quarters)
Mendenhall A+ (Broken screen into a long gain and a huge run to expose the Bears weakness on the right side, yet hes taken out after 3 carries. Tomlin or Bruce is a fucking idiot)

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Oh and Fox is a complete utter F. He was completely useless out there on those dump offs. I swear I saw him lost out there more times than I even saw Timmons on the field.

Gay and his buttboy Tyrone get an F as well.

[stillchest Profile]

Ike, Gay, and Carter are absolutely killing us.

Soft cushion when we blitz and the WR just reads the "hot" and makes a grab. Easy screens and dump offs..we look so old on defense.

So friggin concerned about the Bengal game..not good fellas.

[frankensmith91 Profile]

a little too generous on those grades, how does jeff reed not get an F? I think a couple more F grades were deserved too

[StillMill Profile]

I woke up this AM and made a few adjustments on grades.

As for Woodley, he IS, in fact, imitating Jason GilDong. He was the guy last week who JOGGED after the RB (Johnson) on the long run reversal of field run, getting PASSED by James Harrison, who'd come all the way across the field. A very lazy, loafing, sickening play.

Yesterday, amidst 56 plays from scrimmage, Woodley amassed a GilDongesque ZERO solos and 1 assist. Remember, he 's got the DPOY on the other side that teams are CONSTANTLY fretting and worrying about. He is RARELY being double teamed. His pressure was RARE, and he is doing nothing to blow up, disrupt, or impact.

Me thinks this guy spent too much time in the offseason reading his press clippings.

[rifraff Profile]

Well we let that win slip threw are fingers and a little left of the goal post. Adding the mental mistakes just puts the cherry on top. Looked like a "but we just win the stupor bowl last year" kinda of game play.

[UKBlackNGold Profile]

Soft cushion when we blitz and the WR just reads the "hot" and makes a grab. Easy screens and dump offs..we look so old on defense.

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agree . . ., play tight bump n run, by the time they're free, Cutler would have been vertical!!!

grrrr!

[oldschoolhunkie Profile]

I love raging on your negativity. Unfortunately, nothing to disagree with this week.

Despite it all, easy win if Reed and/or Holmes come through. Tonio to me was the worst offender. It wasn't just the TD.

[Pump-N-Iron Profile]

This has been a GLARING weakness of Dick's Big D for years. The 12 yard cushion and absolute refusal to play any type of press coverage is a giant white flag saying, "I will surrender 5-6 yard passes to prevent the big play." It's only when teams get impatient and go for the big play that they shoot themselves in the foot. When they play smart and take what Dick gives them, they can march on us at will. And Dick's big adjustment... rush 3 (Keisel, Hampton, and Smith) and drop 8 into coverage (including Woodley and Harrison) only makes it worse, since the QB then has all day to find a soft spot in the zone.

BTW... How did James Harrison NOT draw a single holding penalty? It wasn't for lack of effort.

[oldschoolhunkie Profile]

Carter was clearly overmatched, particularly after injury. But it's hard to rag on him for a number of reasons. I was actually astounded that either of those guys returned. No way there was not a concussion involved in that hit, which was just tremendous. Mundy may have helped, but who knows what he is doing every day in practice.

[MTQ1970 Profile]

Good points across the board Mill. To add to Reed's ineptitude, if I recall correctly the first FG was centered between the hashes with the result being a hook. The last miss was on the far hash so he had to hook it even more to miss it. Is there such a thing as under-compensation? If anything I would have expected him to push the second kick, not miss it worse the same way.

Two games now and the Steelers D has made mediocre passing offenses/QB's look good (I like Cutler talent-wise but their WR's are laughable). The pressure's not there. The creation of turnovers isn't there. We can complain about the cushion on the outside til we're blue in the face but that's been a staple of this defense for years. It's a shame it doesn't change to suit their opponents because yesterday was a prime time to use tighter coverage.

Not sure how to classify this game. I kept wanting to say it was a "trap" game but it was too early in the season, they had 10 days off after the 1st contest, and the Bengals haven't exactly been a nemesis of the Steelers lately. But there was a definite strange vibe going into this one. It certainly leaves a bad taste.

[stillgoingstrong Profile]

They look completely average out there, offense and defense. I can think of 10 other teams that are hungrier and playing better football than the stillers right now...the bengals being one of those teams. Might be a long season fellas