Make your prediction NOW! Playoffs or no?

Well, they better be able to score more than 10 points on offense this Sunday or they can forget winning this game...

 

...and blow the whole thing up and start over. Trade Ben now before he leaves via FA and get a bunch of picks for him to help in the rebuild.

 

We'll beat the hell out of the browns and maybe the colts. It's the titans and jets who I worry about

 

Too early to tell, if they go 3-0 or 2-1 in the next three games then I will have a better idea.

 

Tampa loss doesn't hurt us in tie breakers. Only differences I see are the Saints who aren't very good this season (especially on the road), Browns who I think we will beat again, Texans who we should definitely beat at home, and we lose another head scratcher to (which leads to a message board implosion). Somehow we go 10-6 and finish second in the north. We beat either Cincy or the Pats on the road in the playoffs. Lose then to the Broncos in the second round.

 

Based on the game play I'm saying no and this will make some mad but I don't want to see them in the playoffs, not unless they can play and be competitive against good teams. What I see is a secondary that will get picked apart by any good QB and forget it if they have someone who can run because we can't stop the run at all in a nickel package, we can't stop the pass in base defense, that combination is going to add up to 1 and done so no, no playoffs.

 

They will end up 9-7 watching other team's control their destiny and watch it slip away like the KC-SD game last year. They miss the playoffs again as they did in 2012 and 2013

 

I vote yes. I have a feeling we start to put things together this week and wax the Browns.

 

I agree. If the refs in the Kansas City/San Diego game hadn't blown it last year we would have made some noise in the playoffs. We were one of the hottest teams at year's end.

 

I actually had to scroll back up to see if that was really Glenn posting that.

 

WOW! You should become a Cleveland fan. That's what they say every year.

 

I've actually got this visual image of Glenn, gagged and tied to a chair over in the corner of a dimly lit room, with Real Steel, having taken over his TSF account, laughing diabolically after each post.

 

And that right there, is why I LOVE this MB...!
The members frequently make me laff my ass off, and laffs are always good!
Having met SteelerGlenn, I can tell you,
He is NOT a Black n Gold Colored glasses wearing optimist, with no sense of reality,
He just gets tired of people who post nothing but negative comments...
I tend to agree with him.
If watching your team, makes you this miserable, maybe you should find something else to do with your Sunday afternoons...
I have to admit, I used to be guilty, of letting a loss on Sunday(or Monday, or Thursday), wreck my mood for the next couple days, and being shi**y, to anyone I dealt with...
But, somwhere along the line, by the grace of God, and people that cared about me, I came to realize...
I am not part of the team...
I don`t get fired if they do bad...
It`s JUST A GAME... Played by multi-millionaires, who have no loyalty to their team, like the guys I grew up watching!!!
After all, they will all tell you... "I`m a professional"... "This is a BUSINESS"...
Soooo...
With all that said...
I voted "HELL YES WE`LL MAKE THE PLAYOFFS"...
If I didn`t feel that way, why would I put myself thru the misery of watching another season, where I expect us to suck?!?
I`m realistic enough to know, we haven`t looked good yet, but we are 3-2, and we have as good of a chance as anyone of getting it together, and winning our 7th Lombardi!!!
We have the talent to do it, when we quit shooting ourselves in the foot!
And teams that are "better" than us, are just as likely to have injury problems, that we have had to fight thru in the past...
As has been said in other threads...
This is the age of "Parity"...
Very rare to see a team like we were in the 70`s!
Do I wanna see us dominate every team we play?
HELL YES!!!
Do I expect it?
Sadly, No...
Just want another trophy, or two, to put in our case, before Ben`s done!
GO STEELERS!!!

 

It's been a rough day, but I'm back.
We will make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl!
Go Steelers!
( that was funny Jack, you're starting to grow on me. )

 

Great post bleed!

 

Lol !

 

Funny stuff.

 

I said before the season we would be a very inflated 11-5 team due to an incredibly easy schedule and next year we will fall back to earth and go 9-7 or worse and miss the playoffs under this regime.

Nothing has changed my mind so far. If you say the TB loss puts us at 10 wins then we might be a wildcard instead of a division winner and have to play a road playoff game (Tomlin's never won a road playoff game).

Having said that and having stated we will make the playoffs, I would still fire Tomlin after this season.

I've seen enough now to know he's not the best man for the job and the longer we hang onto his leadership, the more seasons we waste not becoming as good as we possibly can be.

We missed a good opportunity to finally part ways with Colbert this past off-season, a playoff season will likely push off an opportunity to fire both of them as well according to the Rooneys.

Too bad, because I don't think this current regime will get the best out of Roethlisberger's remaining career or are talented enough to lead us into the post-Roethlisberger era with any type of championship caliber success.

 

The way I see it playing out as virtual locks to make the playoffs currently

North
Cinci
South
Indi
East
New England
West
Denver
WC
San Diego

That only leaves the last wild card spot.
In contention for that spot I see the Ravens, Texans, Bills and KC.

And with our next 4 games we could potentially go 0-4 with the Browns (much better team than in years past plus they are at home), Texans (playoff caliber), Colts (Potential suberbowl team), and Ravens (already beat us once this year and pretty convincingly).

Not trying to be a downer but with how hot and cold our offense has been and our defense not dominant it will be a struggle to make the playoffs after barely starting above .500

Hope I'm wrong with my thinking and we start playing better but it's hard to trust the team currently.

 

Like a fungus.

Edit: I wrote this before I read Blast's post.

Blast and I are starting to think alike and THAT, my friends, is a scary thought!