Steelers need to go 13-3 I feel...

This is why i was so pissed off after last years AFCCG, we have just as good, if not better players than NE has.

It's the coaching folks. Our coach is is 3 & 4 in his last 7 playoff appearences. He will lose us two to three games

a year to teams we should beat. To get us a home field advantage. I cringed when I heard he was getting an extension. YUK.

 

Fine.


Annihilated then.

 

The squeaking noise is back.

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

The Steelers could go 13-3, but the Pats will probably go 14-2.

 

Louder than ever before!!

 

thats bens joints, they just haven't oiled them yet.

 

Steelers are not going 13-3. They will lose, like they always do, to teams they should beat. I said this when the schedule came out... Steelers will lose to the Bears and Titans. Add losses to Ravens, Patriots and maybe Chiefs, Packers and Bengals... that's at least 4 losses, even if we do have Bell, Brown, Ben and Bryant all starting. The Steelers **** the bed every year at least twice.. and it will happen again.

 

will not.

 

1. 
   Historically the Later years steelers not so lucky as the 1 seed:
   
   
   
   BY MIKE BATISTA
   Record as the No. 1 seed: 9-4
   
   For the last 20 years, the top seed has been like "The Pearl" for the Steelers. Like the gem in John Steinbeck's novel, the guarantee of home-field advantage throughout the playoffs has come with a lot of misfortune.
   
   The Steelers lost the AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field to the New England Patriots in 2001 and 2004, with the Patriots going on to win the Super Bowl both times.
   
   As the No. 1 seed in 1994, the Steelers lost the AFC Championship Game at Three Rivers Stadium to the San Diego Chargers.
   
   The Steelers also were the top seed in 1992, going 11-5 in Bill Cowher's first season as coach. But they were an upstart team that was no match for the seasoned Buffalo Bills, who came to Pittsburgh and beat the Steelers in the AFC Divisional Playoffs on the way to the third of their four straight Super Bowl appearances.
   
   The road to the Super Bowl went through Pittsburgh many times when Cowher patrolled the sidelines, and visiting teams drove right through.
   
   It wasn't always that way.
   
   The Steelers won Super Bowls as the No. 1 seed in 1975 and 1978, beating the Dallas Cowboys both times. They defeated the Oakland Raiders in the 1975 AFC title game and the Houston Oilers in the 1978 AFC title game.
   
   The Steel Curtain teams of the 1970s handled the No. 1 seed much better than Steelers teams of modern times.

Better chance winning superbowls as the 2 seed:

1. 
   Record as the No. 2 seed: 11-3
   
   Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere on "The Sopranos," once said that some people are just better suited as the second in command.
   
   So it is with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
   
   History tells us that for the Steelers to reach the Super Bowl, the No. 2 seed is the way to go.
   
   The Steelers have gone to the Super Bowl four of the five times they've been the No. 2 seed.
   
   The Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII as the second seed in 2008 and Super Bowl XIV as the second seed in 1979. They were the second seed in 2010 and 1995, losing Super Bowl XLV and Super Bowl XXX.
   
   While the Steelers haven't done well when the road to the Super Bowl goes through Pittsburgh, they do much better when it originally goes through another destination but is re-routed through Pittsburgh.
   
   The New England Patriots defeated the Steelers 39-26 in the regular season and were the top seed in 2010. The Jets upset them in the AFC Divisional Playoffs before losing to the Steelers at Pittsburgh in the AFC Championship Game.
   
   The Tennessee Titans beat the Steelers 31-14 on the way to earning the No. 1 seed in 2008. The Baltimore Ravens knocked them off in the divisional round, only to fall to the Steelers in the AFC title game at Heinz Field.
   
   The San Diego Chargers spanked the Steelers 35-7 in 1979. Both teams finished 12-4, and that win gave San Diego the tiebreaker over the Steelers for home-field advantage. Then the Houston Oilers did the Steelers' dirty work by upsetting the Chargers 17-14 in San Diego, only to go to Pittsburgh the following week and lose in the AFC Championship Game.
   
   The Steelers have never fallen short of the AFC Championship Game as the No. 2 seed. They lost at home to the Denver Broncos in the 1997 AFC title game, the only time the second seed did not lead to the Super Bowl.
   

 

colts don't have a pass rush or a secondary. we will crush them again. Just like last two times. just like it.

raiders are still a defense away.

Houston doesn't have a franchise QB.

patriots are loading up for this one year for some reason. I think it's brady and gronk's last year. got cooks and Gilmore. they are the team to beat and the one we are most threatened by. and this is my current rant......what has Tomlin and Butler done to improve the defense to beat the patriots this year? One or two long term guys like Watt but for this year? Ben's remaining window? And we give tomlin an extension?? Wouldn't surprise me if we meet in the AFC Championship game again with the same result. Tomlin couldn't see this coming? again?

 

Couldn't have said it better myself Busman

 

What game breaking defensive guy could we have gotten though? I mean there were guys on the market but then how could we pay them, keep Bell, AV, and others long term? Would you sacrifice Bell for basically a "rental" to beat the Pats? I've said before that Bell's true value might be seen when we DON'T have Ben anymore. A good running game helps a young qb and if Ben really is about to hang it up it will be good to have Bell around longer. So I can't really say that I'd sacrifice a superstar just for a CHANCE to get a good db on the downside of their career. I'm not saying that I'm jumping up and down about our secondary because I'm not. I'm just saying it's not like the FO is waving the white flag concerning it but the reality is we have a salary cap that we have to operate within and that does mean that every team is gonna have a certain weakness.

 

I'm just not sure Bell will still be here when Ben leaves.

 

He may not be but I hope he is.

 

If franchising Bell this year and next makes us unable to re-sign Tuitt and Shazier, I'll be mad.

 

It doesn't, the Steelers have 16 million in cap space right now. They might be trying to sign Tuitt to an extension this year, not Shazier.