serve me the plate of CROW today

Great breakdown, but you are discounting Rodgers injury.
I personally wouldn't mind seeing them again at home in the playoffs.

 

yes...welllll - facing better competition is where the rubber will meet the road

 

agree

Pat needs HELP on that OLINE. ALL QB's do.......

these HIGH QB SALARIES kill the rest of the rosters...

 

nope - not the Chiefs.....i had then not winning the AFCW and maybe missing the playoffs.....you could see it coming....

 

yeah, home playoff game coming and possibly another blowout......

 

Yep, I remember you specifically saying that in the @steel machine thread predicting the playoff teams before the season started.

A detailed breakdown about the whole scenario and in my opinion the best post in that entire thread. Bravo Bravo

 

thank you

they were far from anything great last year.

REFS got them there and then they were CLEARLY EXPOSED in the SB

I wish the BEST for Pat - I like him and hope he heals and recovers. I wish nothing but GOOD RIDDANCE for Kelce - C-YA!!!!

 

I wouldn’t mind seeing any team “at home in the playoffs”

Hone field advantage

Plus I have tickets

 

I looked

 

Do we trust that the Steelers have solved their run defense problem? Or was that a mirage?

 

Lol.....nope. if they can put two back-to-back games together that are good, then maybe they're moving in the right direction. But until that time, it seems like they fix something this week and next week something else is broke.

 

the Lions will put a lot of pressure on various aspects of our 'team'

 

One thing is certain... Steelers will not be able to run the ball or stop the run vs Lions. If Campbell is smart, he should run 60% of the time, throw 40%.

 

Talking heads say it's the Steelers' pass defense that will fail them in the game. But the Steelers pass defense has actually been much improved in the last month (well maybe because teams are running all over them... )

 

AMEN!

Nothing has changed. Big whoop, beat a limping Lamar J and a laughinstock Dolphins team at home. Wow, impressed.

They need to win a playoff game and in a way that suggest they are the better team (not a fluke of bad calls and opponent butt fumble or something).

The saving grace for Tomlin is the AFC is a train wreck this year. THIS could be the year to make a run, with the better teams (years past) struggling and the early surprises now face-planting.

Depending on how the playoff grid plays out, the Steelers might be able to win two games and still not look like much of a team.

 

The AFC is pretty bad this year...this is Tomlin's last chance to fluke into an AFC championship game. Bills D struggling, Jaguars better, but hardly an imposing team, Colts QB issues, Texans D legit, but the O is unpredictable week to week...the Patriots, not sold on them either, a VERY, VERY, VERY weak division has lead to their record being far better than their team.

If the Steelers get bounced convincingly, it has to be the last straw for Tomlin...has to. Rooney has to move on (he won't he's a spineless coward, risk-averse).