Post Game Loss Complaint Thread

Play calling and personnel for situational downs is horrible.

 

I can see that getting worse unless he gets his catches and yardage, regardless whether we win the game or not.

 

When we won earlier this year I was glad, but there's a bit of a numbness when it comes to this team.
When we lost last week I didn't even care. I've come to expect poor play, especially from our extremely conservative offence. As I said, I'm numb at this point.
But tonight was a kick right square in the nuts. This game was given to us. We may not have deserved it, but it was given to us. 3 turnovers and a blocked FG. Dallas literally gave it to us, but we blew it.
Extremely safe playcalling to the point I want to puke. Wasted timeouts, like every week. Apparently timeouts don't matter in the 2nd half. The NFL should just take them away from us, we're just going to abuse them anyway.

I've been waiting for 10+ years for them to fire Tomlin. I always thought it would happen. Now I don't believe it will. for some reason a lot of people think he's good and he likely has this job for life.
Either I go back to being numb or I'm done with a Tomlin coached team. Because it's not worth being this angry over. It's been 10 ****ing years of anger. It's just not worth it.
Whatever. I'm going to bed. I'll be back or I won't. Life goes on.

 

This was a poor team effort. We had several turnovers and a blocked field goal but the defense is a porous...allowing them to march down the field with runs of 5-10yards a pop and quick/short passes, with the occasional blown coverage for a long gain. We can't always pressure the QB with a 4 man effort all the time and need to blitz our LBs. Its 3 and 5 or less and our CBs are playing 10 yards off...smh.

Offensive wise, I don't see the creativity. We have a mobile QB and we are kinda handicapping him with bunch formations and 2 or 3 tight ends on the field at a time. That just puts no speed on the field and 8 or 9 in the box and expecting Najee to run against that. We need to spread our offense out and run crossing patterns and such to get our WR open...just like Dallas did on that last TD they scored. With our WRs spread out, Fields will have more space to run when things break down.

 

I haven’t been to a game since 2022
Unlikely I’ll go to one until Tomlin is gone.

 

It’s easy to shut down one receiver, when none of the other receivers scare you.

We desperately need to make a move for another top tier guy.

 

So we are playing for a Top 10 pick then?!


If that is the case, perhaps that is the final straw that will break the camels back!!!..... is what I would like to say. People like T.J. Watt, Cameron Heyward and others simply wont allow that to happen. Regardless, I agree.



Side note: Time to worry about Minkah Fitzpatrick?! I surely as hell am. He has been MIA since 2022.

 

Whether he is pissed off or not is by no means the deciding factor. If there is one thing that Jordan Lewis is correct on is the additional receiver. Pickens is the only one the team has.

 

It's pretty clearly Tomlins style at this point. He's so risk averse that it puts an insane amount of pressure on the defense to be super human. We would be a 5-7 win team without Watt.

 

Last play on defense....4th down.... and we rushed 3....awesome!

 

Im surprised the secondary is playing as well as it is. There has been so much churn there every year, and there are so many packages where everyone plays. There is no consistency back there. I would just let the best players out there and let the others sit.

What the heck is Edmunds doing out there? He should be on the bench unless there is an injury.

 

And a qb

 

Definitely need another receiver, but gotta give the QB time to throw them the QB has to give them a chance to catch it. Pickens is a head case. It’s no wonder we tried to get Ayuik and apparently are going after Adams. Won’t matter though unless they get the OLine figured out.

 

There's a reason he was an UDFA

 

And to take it one step further, This is why a head coach that is so focused on defense isn't built to win in today's NFL. It's just the whole philosophy of this offense is antiquated. Harris is not helping us at all And it's amplified by the basic philosophy of the offense. He could be an okay player if you had a pass heavy attack and a more aggressive style offense. But when you're whole philosophy is to just smash mouth the defense but your back is not that dynamic and you have a huge hole in a number two receiver in your offense, it's just not something that should happen The offense need some serious attention.

I'm sure we're going to hear Justin Fields regressed in all of this but he is not in a system that is built to win offensively.

 

Is that supposed to make it alright?

 

The question pertains as to WHY?!


Kenny Pickett isn't in the same universe as Justin Fields as far as overall QB play is concerned. If there is something that Fields needs beyond a WR, it is a Head Coach that can trust him early and often. To both Tomlin and Smith's credit... they did... until they stopped doing so all together.



Between me and you, I am now officially convinced that a disastrous season ending in a Top 10 pick will wake up AR II!! What other forms of a wake up call is there at this point?!



Blown leads?! Check

AR II's team getting their collective asses kicked in multiple playoff games?! Check.

Inefficient coaching hires?! Check.

Playing down to inferior competition since 2010?! Check.



Nothing seems to faze him at present. AR II did say he was tired of not winning in the playoffs. Should this continue until the end of the season, it is going to get very interesting what AR II will have to say by then.

 

I completely agree but you got to admit that was poor sportsmanship by Pickens…especially when the games over.

 

Agree. Needs to grow up.