DC Patrick Graham understands The Standard

Did you miss this quote from Watt

"I think in the past it was more about me being stubborn.

People suggested he didn’t want to move around and now he just admitted it

And now he’s doing what he is told

 

the question should be can this guy drive a standard.

sawyer looking sharp as well in videos i have seen. they have to find ways to get these guys making offenses crazy trying to account for them. i like it. bout time we see LB'ers flying around everywhere in pittsburgh again. nice.

 

My bad. Was looking at 2017 data.

Here's 2025... seems Raiders and Steelers defenses not all that different on an EPA basis. Just glancing at some rankings, Raiders woeful on rushing defense but middling on pass defense. Steelers woeful on pass defense but middling on rush defense so from 10,000 ft this looks about right.... (and LVR offense really sucked!)

 

Sawyer going to get a lot of PT if they trade Highsmith. Hope he's up to it.

 

sawyer is the poster child for being up for it.

 

I burned him with a cigarette so he'd let go. I was walking the rice fields, and had to cross a ditch that came out of the reservoir for feeding the field, and I was covered with the dang things. I think I would have rather took on one of the gators instead. LoL

 

LoL. See change the subject.
I hope , and pray Graham is all that, and more. I hope he is the best DC this team has ever had, and he maybe, but....., but that doesn't change the fact that you said the Raiders had a better D than us, and you are wrong. You are the one that just can't admit it, that is why all the subterfuge within your post. LoL
This is not a Tomlin thing, or a Graham thing as you are trying to make it. It's a Raiders didn't have a better D than the Steelers thing. I don't care who was coaching. That was a wrong statement.
I know You were wrong, you know you were wrong, many know it was wrong, and now I'm bored with the subject.

 

Yes. That didn't fit his narrative. So he skipped that.

 

An actual standard is something specific and quantifiable. "Become the Steel Curtain" is just puffery. To state, "Our goal for this season is to finish in the NFL top ten is total yards allowed," or something to that effect, would be actually saying something substantial.

 

Or points allowed which is most important

 

A better goal: "This defense will be historic...."

 

I kept telling Steelers fans Watt didn't move around much because he didn't want to, but fans wanted to blame the coaches.