DK on today's game

http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2014/09/07/column-steelers-must-overcome-jammed-signals/

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...the hard question left behind is this: Why wasn’t this team ready for the second half?
And if it was ready, difficult as that case would be to make after hearing these players, why wouldn’t — or couldn’t — the staff adjust?
It’s simplistic and, in my view, silly to talk about emotional letdowns, though that’s sure to be a theme from this one. I didn’t see a Steelers team that didn’t care in the second half. I saw one that didn’t have a clue.

 

That was very good to read, thanks.

Oh yeah, how can #99 inadvertently line up on the center?

 

Dude even the thought of Madden ticks me off. There is not a bigger blowhard on this planet than that vindictive and condescending moron.

 

Exactly. I've heard him say crap like "Steeler Nation is a term I HATE" and I'm like "why"?

 

Wow. I didn't know DK had so many detractors. I like him a lot, find him the most honest in his criticism and praise.

 

I don't know anything about him. I was just speaking to the fact that Madden is a stark raving lunatic.

 

I've heard that you went with a specialist trainer this off-season, Blast, to get you extra geared up for taking on all the negative comments this season. Is that true?

 

Yes, the adjustments wouldn't have come at the half. What would they be adjusting too? (Unless the Browns have a record of going no-huddle, which I'm not sure they do). The team talk would have in all likelihood been about not letting the guard down, keeping up the levels of intensity, and expecting the Browns to come out fighting.

The adjustments were needed mid-third quarter, and those adjustments were basically "PLAY BETTER".

 

That is not the point. One tipped ball, one drop or one penalty and that game could of easily ended up a Browns victory. Steelers once more playing down to an inferior opponent. Tomlin does not have the killer instinct aka Bellincheat. We don't know how to put teams away. Everyone on the Steelers looked like a deer in the headlights for 28 min. of the second half. What happened? Aliens? The problem is Tomlin and Crew DON"T know what happened. That is the scary part. Any fan should be hard on them for that embarrassing play in the second half.

 

Yeah, we got lucky with that Hoyer gaffe forcing them to kick that FG and I wasn't sure why they didn't either go for it, or attempt a FG on 4th. and 5 on the Steelers 35. That's why they're the Browns I guess and they deserve some credit for the Steelers' win.

 

Big difference blowing a 10-point lead on the road to Miami, then blowing a 24-point lead AT HOME to Hoyer and the Browns.

 

Yeah, I think the guy writing that is spot on. Its INEXCUSABLE to not be able to make adjustments during a game. We all just sat there helplessly, hoping the Browns would screw themselves. Our team was clueless. A win is great- but its not all that matters. Not by a long shot. We have huge problems on this team to just watch a 24 point lead slip away and keep coming out with the exact same offensive plays and not giving Ike some help when it was CLEAR he was getting picked on.

 

Were the Dolphins missing three weapons on offense? (And yes, Tannehill is better. And last season's loss was AT HOME to the Dolphins.) C'mon, Blast...stop making excuses for this team's performance.

 

Teams blowing big half time leads is pretty common over the years, they let up off the gas in the 2nd half while the other team pushes it to the floor, but giving up 183 yards rushing is a huge concern not to mention the offense scoring just 3 points in the second half, well, they will get 1 day of practice before they play the rats thursday who is going to give them a big dose of the running game, they better strap their chin straps tight since the rats lost yesterday and will be desperate for a win, we will soon find out what this team and coaching staff is made of....And is Lebeau already retired ????

 

This works both ways though. I know for a fact shazier had a near interception and I think Ike and Big Play Willy both had near picks. I think if a couple things happened different we could have ended the game in the victory formation.

 

Fair enough. But I think a lot of us do not see this type of performance as an "exception." It's become the norm for the Steelers in recent years. I agree: it's the NFL and every team has struggles. But it doesn't happen regularly to good teams. It does happen regularly to this team. That's the distinction.

 

Yeah Lebeau is retired. Yesterday at halftime was his retirement party. He coached the first half and retired at halftime. LOL. Just messing around. I love DL. I just don't think he has the horses honestly. Actually what Charlie Batch said was that Shazier got really overwhelmed by the speed of the game when they went in to the hurry. He said we have guys that aren't ready to get signals, get in position, and still stay in the game but that he thinks it will come with time. That's a nice way of putting it. I say that no matter if we DO get the signals but don't have the personnel to stop the run we are gonna get embarrassed quite often.

 

Cortez dropped a sure pick as well.

 

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