SAD AB

6 games. 41 receptions. 486 yards.

He's breaking no records. Teams are double and tripling him. They aren't losing to him and watching him twerk on their squad all week on Sportscenter and social media.

Who would have thought yelling business is boomin every 5 seconds would actually be bad for business.

 

Goes to show how important a little consistency out of the other receivers is along with a QB who doesn't force it into that double and triple coverage. With Coates and Wheaton out they had no reason to fear anyone else and Ben showed very little confidence to go anywhere else.
I can't understand how we go from this offense that can beat you many ways to what we saw yesterday. Looks like it will be a pattern again this year though. Let's just hope they can get into the post season with some key players back and healthy and firing on all cylinders when it counts.

 

I think it proves AB needs somebody to stretch the field. Coates was clearly injured and ineffective.

 

Other WR's were open. Ben missed open recievers and didn't throw to wide open guys with regularity. Stop making Brown the hot read on every down. Once you start burning them with other players they'll back off Brown. We should be exploiting this, not bitching about it.

 

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Agree AB needs somebody to stretch the field, and Coats should of not even dressed as he didn't want to catch. Ben needed to go to Eli and Jesse James more and also the new kid from the practice squad no. 83, he looked good in his limited plays.

 

I think the Front Office and Coaching staff have failed every bit as the players. There are plenty of players that have not impressed. So many in fact you have to ask your self is it really the players that are the problem. I mean if it were one or two guys that have stunk...sure that is conceivable. But so many of the starters have disappointed it's ridiculous. Ben and our RB's have carried this team. The defense has done one thing well... red zone defense. BUT also consider we have not exactly been playing offensive power houses.

Last off season we knew we needed to improve the defense. We knew we needed more talent at LB and secondary. We knew the pass rush from our LB's was a major issue. How could we ignore OLB if our plan this season was to get pressure with out blitzing? Everything we did to improve the defense has not panned out. Maybe the secondary is better than last year...but it's hard to tell considering how bad our front 7 has been. IMO the biggest improvement over the first half of last is our kicking game.

Now we get to see how important it is to have a decent back up Qb. Especially on a team that is built on a finesse, pass happy offense. Tomlin's attention to detail is lacking. We saw it last season and again this season. Luckily we have time to right the ship. We need to get Ben back soon. Hopefully we are 5-3 when he gets back.

 

AB has a right to be sad. He's going to owe Marshall a Rolls at the end of the season is Landry plays for an extended period of time.

 

What a dumbass

 

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just blew the **** up

 

With the weapons on this offense, 40+ is possible every game. Brown, Coates, James, Rogers, Wheaton, Bell, Williams, Bay....Geez thats a lineup that any QB would love to have in their arsenal and impossible to cover them all.

 

I wonder how different the stats would be if we still had Martavis Bryant on the field?

 

Only Todd Haley can stop this offense. Unfortunately, he's got that down to a science.

 

We have allowed the NFL to kill his spirit. When its not fun anymore and just a job...this is what you get

 

I just watched "North Dallas Forty" last night (insomnia makes you do strange things), and that was exactly the point of John Matuszak's outburst!

 

To be fair Dupree has missed the season so far, and Tuitt hasn't produced like last season and Shazier in injured again. They did address the secondary with the draft and trade for Gilbert, they didn't have the money to get a pass rusher in free agency.

 

What? He's just going by what AB said?

http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/antonio-brown-responds-to-brandon-marshalls-bet-are-you-for-real/

He's definitely not taken on the Hines Ward public persona that we had hoped he would. Looked like he was getting there last year, but this year he's taken a more bombastic approach.

He needs to be the elder statesman in that WR room, but for some reason I think DHB is....

 

The Steelers need to be doing what the Pats are doing, they get pressure on the QB by flexing their front, they play a 4-3 on one series, a 3-4 on the next, and even a 2-6.

Teams never have to practice or prepare for the Steelers to show and play anything but a 3-4.
If we could pressure the QB we could dominate games.

 

Yep. People should take a look at how the Falcons are using Julio. Rather than force feed him the ball like they did last year, they're throwing to the open man. If Julio is doubled, Matt Ryan ignores him and goes somewhere else. Even if that means Julio goes the entire game with only 1 target, then that's what they're going to do. It has worked for them, because at the beginning of the year teams were mauling Julio, but the Falcons were winning by spreading the ball around to open guys. Teams finally backed off a bit on Julio to try to slow down other guys and look what happened, he went for 300 yards.

If Brown is covered, go somewhere else with the ball. Even if it takes 3 weeks, if we beat teams by spreading it around, they'll back off on Brown and then he get more involved. He needs to be selfless though and accept that role

 

If that's all it takes to kill Brown's spirit, then he's not much of a man. He can still have fun, he just can't twerk or do pelvic thrusts.

 

He's a dumbass for betting a rolls against a Porsche knowing Landry is the backup for the often injured Ben and Landry doesn't throw to Brown often.

 

To be fair all of what you have said are excuses. They built the team. They drafted the players. If the guy you drafted can't stay healthy or is disappointing then maybe you drafted the wrong guy or maybe the coaching staff struggles to get the most out of the players?

 

At this rate his big contract is shrinking...

 

You're clueless as usual there's nothing the FO can do about Shazier and Dupree are injured. Every team makes mistakes with the draft, in case you didn't know.

 

I don't think they actually made that bet, Marshall was just running his mouth.

 

We havn't WON a playoff game in 5 years. 4-3 now. With a HOF QB and opportunities aplenty. We lose with regularity to the worst teams in the league. I guess it's just bad luck.