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[steelwest Profile]

It is time to face reality. As has been apparent, this team just does not have it this year. Call it the Super Bowl hangover or whatever, they repeat the same mistakes over and over to find new ways to lose games. While abundant talent remains, various key injuries have not helped. Yet, the problem appears to run deeper on several levels.
1. The penalties have become more prevalent. Anyone remember the days when good Steeler teams would have one penalty the entire game. This team seems to average one every drive.
2. We cannot play without Polamalu. Carter just does not cut it as a safety fill-in. He has limited range, limited quickness, and gets by on pure guts. We all remember how the secondary looked with Anthony Smith back there. Same thing now.
3. Ben seems to be reading the press clippings and feels compelled to intersperse some horrible throws between nice plays. Gone is the careful focused football that led to consistent wins. Instead, we have the Brett Favre Packers after they won a Super Bowl. The easy, consistent throws are not used in favor of the "watch this" eye popping play.
4. The O-Line is what we thought it was. Inconsistent. Not ready to be a good running or passing line.
5. The Offensive coaches cannot seem to decide what they want to do. When the running game works, they feel the need to abandon it for the pass. When we are passing well, they feel the need to change it up. There are no trick plays of any kind. We are like a bad basketball tam that feels a need to have a different guy take a shot every time up court.
6. Other than Harrision, the three playmakers on D were going to be Troy, Timmons, and A. Smith. All of them have been hurt most or all of the year.
7. The inability to prevent TD returns is incredible, Never seen anything like it and we apparently cannot fix this problem.
8. It is hard to gain 500 yards on offense and lose. But we are that kind of team.

[stillgrill Profile]

The worst thing to happen to this team was the dominant 2nd half vs Denver. They believed everything the media said about how good they were & are now paying the price. Anybody who wants to put Ben in the class of Brady or Manning should be shot. Those guys rip the heart out of teams like KC, before halftime. It looks to me that the friggin lawsuit from that floozy in Tahoe is on his mind now.

[No l Gravity l Profile]

Manning is the most overrated quarterback in the league history.

[Slickster10 Profile]

It is time to face reality. As has been apparent, this team just does not have it this year. Call it the Super Bowl hangover or whatever, they repeat the same mistakes over and over to find new ways to lose games. While abundant talent remains, various key injuries have not helped. Yet, the problem appears to run deeper on several levels.
1. The penalties have become more prevalent. Anyone remember the days when good Steeler teams would have one penalty the entire game. This team seems to average one every drive.
2. We cannot play without Polamalu. Carter just does not cut it as a safety fill-in. He has limited range, limited quickness, and gets by on pure guts. We all remember how the secondary looked with Anthony Smith back there. Same thing now.
3. Ben seems to be reading the press clippings and feels compelled to intersperse some horrible throws between nice plays. Gone is the careful focused football that led to consistent wins. Instead, we have the Brett Favre Packers after they won a Super Bowl. The easy, consistent throws are not used in favor of the "watch this" eye popping play.
4. The O-Line is what we thought it was. Inconsistent. Not ready to be a good running or passing line.
5. The Offensive coaches cannot seem to decide what they want to do. When the running game works, they feel the need to abandon it for the pass. When we are passing well, they feel the need to change it up. There are no trick plays of any kind. We are like a bad basketball tam that feels a need to have a different guy take a shot every time up court.
6. Other than Harrision, the three playmakers on D were going to be Troy, Timmons, and A. Smith. All of them have been hurt most or all of the year.
7. The inability to prevent TD returns is incredible, Never seen anything like it and we apparently cannot fix this problem.
8. It is hard to gain 500 yards on offense and lose. But we are that kind of team.

So I guess we suck. Maybe next year we will get our shit together.

[MendenHaulin Profile]

you all may be half right but we still have a chance of running the table and making the playoffs. Playoffs start in what 7 weeks? polamalu will be healthy then and so will a lot of other injured players.

[r1stillerman Profile]

The attention to details on this team is awful. This clearly rest on the shoulders of Tomlin. He needs to pay attention to what his staff is doing or in this case not doing. The KC game was a glaring example of this lack of details. I mean come on dropped interceptions, passes bouncing off players, fumbles, needless penalties and above all the horrific special teams play are part of not paying attention to the details.