Sean McDermott - Bills

And the Steelers had no interest in paying Dotson or Pickens, even if the Steelers played Dotson in the wrong spot there is no excuse for all of the dumb penalties he used to get. The whole organization wanted Pickens gone good riddance. Spillane is a mid player no big loss, like I said before you can cherry pick a few players from every team who goes toa new team and performs well.

 

Spillane has had a good career after he left. He has done good. Shame we lost him.

 

The great Bob Spillane where you at

 

Should I put together a bunch of videos of our run defense and our current megabucks inside linebacker?

I don't think so.

Where do you come up with this stuff and why?

Here's what an ILB is supposed to look like.



Do you remember the great Bob Spillane now?

 

Fellas, making a mountain of a molehill here.

Spillane is a good LB at what he does, smack RBs around.

Spillane also has several flaws that have lead to him not getting resigned most places he lands.

Moving on from Robert Spillane is not the reason the Steelers defense struggled over recent seasons.

If you want to lament moving on from a rugged ILB, let’s lament Elandon Roberts. He’s Spillane, but, you know, better.

 

I just see a couple guys trying make it seem like the team is missing toughness and tackling ability at the ILB position that is currently occupied by a guy making huge money and not getting it done far too often.

Again, I can post all kinds of videos on Robert Spillane playing with other teams doing stuff that our current ILB isn't doing as well as him.

I can also post about the other players both of you are trying to ignore by focusing on Spillane. Two All-Pro players. Yeah, I'm sure this team couldn't have used an All-Pro guard and an All-Pro wide receiver along with a tough and productive ILB.

Come on guys. What's silly is trying to make it seem like these aren't good players and that the coach thought they couldn't play here, so the team got rid of them.

 

I don’t watch much Patriots games but is Spillane carrying receivers down the seam? Is he running with TEs across the middle?

When he was in Pittsburgh that was a big struggle for him. And, for better or worse, that is something the Steelers want their ILB to do.

That’s likely the more important question. Is it reasonable or even preferable to expect a 3-4 ILB to do what the Tomlin-Austin pairing was expecting their ILBs to do.

Dotson was not a fit for how the Steelers want their OL to play. Again, the question is not the player it was whether or not Meyers had the right approach to OL play. I’ve long thought he did not, but I don’t actually know enough to evaluate.

Pickens is an undeniable talent. I don’t think anyone thinks the Steelers traded Pickens for talent reasons. Something off the field and in the meeting rooms drive that trade.

My point is not that Tomlin or the Steelers got it “right” in these instances. But that things are more complicated than surface evaluations of players.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter because those responsible for the decisions are largely gone.

 

Spillane is a good player when he's used to his strengths... If you ask Spillane to be too much in coverage like he was with the Steelers, it's going to be a big struggle for him, but with the Pats he's used well.

 

Who

 

Ask Derek Henry.

 

I agree. Some just want to have “look at me post.”

Spillane was great with the Raiders.


He had a pick 6 against Lamar.

I wish we had kept him.

 

Yeah, he's so great why didn't the Raiders keep him? Imagine talking up a mid player like he's an All-Pro .

 

I'm lost. When did McDermott coach Spillane? Talk about hijacking a thread!

 

If Spillane had stayed with the Steelers he wouldn't be a starter, I'm not a big fan of Queen either time to find an upgrade at ILB. Even if they kept Pickens for 2025, he wasn't going to be on the team in 2026. Let's ignore the fact that Pickens got a chance to play with a franchise QB in his prime in Dallas .

 

Well Burrow isn't hurt much more than Lamar Jackson, and what He has done in Cincinnati is actually remarkable. Let's not forget just two years ago he led the whole NFL in TDs, and yards, but his team was so bad it doesn't matter. I also agree on a few younger Qb, but like You I wouldn't name them because IMO they haven't proven exactly what they are.

 

LoL. Still following me around no matter what I post. LoL. So tell me in what You quoted that I said what was the lie??? You can't, because what I said that you quoted was the truth. God what it must be like to be so obsessed with someone that You quote what they said, and then argue for nothing. Where was the lie in what You quoted???
The sad thing is people agreed with you, without actually fact checking.
What You quoted I said was....
Bull He has 6ints , and 15 fumbles in the playoffs.
Go fact check, and find me the lie, and then be a real man, and apologize for arguing against the truth I said.
As for the people who agreed with You. LoL they did so without checking. That's on them.

 

He still had the fumbles. If You fumble the ball, and I your teammates jump on it doesn't mean You didn't fumble.

 

If the coaches under Tomlin had the wrong approach or weren't using Dotson correctly when they had next to no talent on the OL, that's on the head coach to make sure you adjust scheme around the talent to take advantage of their natural gifts.

Again, Spillane has had 7 INT's since leaving the Steelers and playing for the Raiders and now the Patriots. They also want inside linebackers to stop the run.

Do you see the current big-contract ILB reading the play, flying into the proper hole and stoning running backs routinely? I don't.

Do you see our current super athlete fighting through traffic and getting off of blocks to tackle? I don't.

Do you see our athletic, big-money ILB diagnosing screens and blowing up plays routinely? I don't.

Do you see great production in pass defense by Patrick Queen? I don't.

Do you see all the proper calls and seamless communication happening on the field because of the defensive quarterback? I don't.

Have you heard Vrable talk about Spillane? Maybe you should. Vrable called Spillane a "foundational piece". It's the way he plays. The way he leads, the violence and determination he plays with. The way he's always in the right spot. The way he makes sure everyone else is in the right spot and knows their assignment. The way he is always making plays. He's a tone setter. Spillane is always going to relay the right play calls and make the right checks. All this on a team one step away from a Super Bowl. He's not an athletic freak. He's just a terrific football player that knows what he has to do and what is asked of him within the scheme....and he brings it every single time he walks onto the field mentally and physically.

Remember when the Steelers had a whole lot of players that did all the little things right? I do...but that was a long time ago.

I also know that the people that are responsible for most of it are gone. It's just that some people want to keep making points to defend all things at all costs to protect Tomlin from criticism. Even if Tomlin didn't make every single call, he is responsible for the calls of the coordinators and coaches under him. It was his job to do so, and in that way he is ultimately responsible. People chose to defend them while they were here, and now they're defending the indefensible and making up stuff in their minds now that they're gone.

The schemes need to be upgraded and modernized, and then they have to see how many players they currently have that fit well into the new systems. After that, they need to add players that can thrive in the offensive and defensive schemes and hopefully everything takes off. We also need to hope that the next coach will have some of the leadership skills that Mike Tomlin has always had.

 

And Yet we beat them.

 

but the pats will play tomorrow

 

Because they didn't play us.
It's all about match ups.
Matter of fact the Terrible coach Tomlin has never lost to a Vrabel HC team. Must be magic.
Of course your reply will be it doesn't matter, unless Vrabel had always won, and then You would use it, but since You can't, you will make an excuse.

 

LOL

everyone want to face the steelers come playoffs time...I don't think a random week 3 game make a difference

 

Exactly what I said You would say. Thanks for proving my point. You better hope we even get to play in the playoffs in the future.
Because You definitely can't win one if You can't get there.