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A. Saunders Paints A Bleak Picture

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by Bubbahotep, Oct 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM.

  1. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    Harrison still played he just wasn't happy with his snaps, oh well you don't let a 40-year-old player dictate his playing time.
     
  2. Steelersfan43

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    At least his team played in his games very often, which means his teams were often contenders, regardless of who their QB was... The legendary successes Cowher had with Roethlisberger in 2004 and 2005 proved that Neil or Kordell was the problem in those games.

    Tomlin was unable to beat Tebow or Bortles in the playoffs because of his sorry defense

    Tomlin and his sorry defense have made the AFC title game once since 2011 despite often being a weak AFC outsider by one or two teams in the 2010s, that's 14 years, and they still refuse to change.
     
  3. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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    40 snaps in 14 games is so few,this is not even funny!
     
  4. El Kabong

    El Kabong Well-Known Member

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    Super Bowl 30 of the 1995 season.
     
  5. Steelpens65

    Steelpens65 Well-Known Member

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    Looks like your boy Tomlin in first rd of every playoff game
     
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  6. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    I don't care about some washed up 40 year old getting playing time.
     
  7. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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    He was our best pass rusher the season before when the steelers make the afc title game,the only time since 2011
     
  8. steelersrule6

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    That was LeBeau that lost to Tebow, maybe Ben shouldn't have turned the ball over twice to Jacksonville gifting them 14 points.
     
  9. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    So, he wasn't the best pass rusher in 2017 :shrug:
     
  10. Steelersfan43

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    42 points even with 2 turnovers on offense against the number 1 defense is enough to win a playoffs game normaly but not with our sorry defense....For the game vs Tebow,it was not a Dick LeBeau defense in that game...We all know that this is Tomlln who run the defense since LeBeau is gone and this is according to Keith Butler but Butler also said that Tomlin had more power with the defense in the end of the LeBeau era,also according to Butler and in that game,it was not a LeBeau defense,since the steelers had several cover 0 in that game for no good reason...Just to look at the Thomas TD in the first play of Overtime

    If Lebeau would run the defense in that game,the broncos would not score a single TD
     
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  11. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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    Again,he was a bench warmer from day one of the training camp that year....He would accepted to be the number 3 pass rusher of the steelers that year but he was not even in the rotation
     
  12. DJ18Baller

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    I gotta give the MT guys credit at this point. I’m not sure what voodoo magic is being used to convince them how great he is after this same crap every year!!
     
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  13. Chucktownsteeler

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    This defense has sh!t the bed for 10 years now or more, besides being the highest paid in the league.
     
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  14. Steelvision

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    They have to get a little physical with receivers at the line of scrimmage.

    and have to figure out a way to put more pressure on the Qb. Run more blitzes, have TJ stunt to the inside…cinci’s o line is not that good, we should've done better

    or is TJ hurt?
     
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  15. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    The Steelers win the game without Ben gifting them 14 points :rolleyes:. Blah, blah, blah Lebeau ran the defense until they got rid of him.
     
  16. OB1

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    what’s an AFCCG? Is that some kind of a late round playoff game? I vaugely recall knowing those at some point in the past.

    ‘I’d gladly give up all of these non losing seasons to have a record of 1-4 in AFCCG games over the last decade and a half.
     
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  17. OB1

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    Tomlin is the biggest chocker in the playoffs ever. Stop defending the losses - it’s sad.
     
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  18. Blast Furnace

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  19. Steelersfan43

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    The steelers win the game if our defense is just average

    I've seen many playoff games where a team won even with two turnovers on offense, especially when they had over 40 points.

    The Steelers were already down 7-0 before our offense's first snap... stop defending our sorry defense.
     
  20. Bubbahotep

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    Pretty much have posted the stats to show that the Steelers don't protect the MOF. It's open season there.
     

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