Sportswriter rips Antonio Brown

Yeah we should adopt the Belichik rule which says "when you win say little and when you lose say less". I think that's a pretty good way to look at things.

 

How many times were they targeted? Last 2yrs, Wallace 232 targets, 136 catches Brown 228 targets 135 catches. Not much difference. It's not like Wallace has had a ton more of balls thrown his way. He's getting 2 more tosses a season.

 

Here's the unfathomable part: They both get about the same number of catches, with about the same numer of targets. Except one gets more yds than the other, waaaaay more TDs than the other, has done it for 4yrs instead of 2 at the same age, yet people insist that this does not evidence the superior WR!

 

Brown, does likes to showboat and that could be due to imaturety, I think he needs to be more serious this year and focus on being the best receiver in the league instead of thinking about what skit he wants to showboat with in the endzone or on his way to the endzone. He for sure wasnt playing at a top 5 level last year, and that has to change this year..

 

Yep. And he and Sanders BOTH need to remember we don't get points for FIRST downs, only TOUCHDOWNS! The ref doesn't need help signaling first down everytime they catch a pass for a first down!

 

Holmes little Lebron/Kevin Garnett celebration could have cost us XLIII if the refs had been paying attention.

 

He used the ball as a prop (unsportsmanlike conduct - 15yrd penalty assessed on kickoff).

He acted as if the ball was talcum powder, he mimiced shaking the talc powder (the football) onto his hand, and then raised his arms in the air similar to what Lebron James (and Kevin Garnett before him) does prior to the start of a basketball game.

It was being talked about after the game. It should have definitely been, by the letter of the law, a penalty.

 

I want Brown and Sanders to learn to hold onto the ball when they're running after the catch and stop fumbling. If Brown doesn't fumble against Dallas and Oakland this team would've made the playoffs.

 

Mike Wallace turned down $50mil. He was told repeatedly, show up and you ll get paid.

Tomlin shouldve been just as hard on the receivers as he was the RB. Drop a ball and you sit the bench. Wallace shouldve been on the side line carrying a clip board.

 

I don't know that benching a receiver every time they dropped a pass would be the best strategy.

 

I just want them to hold onto the ball!

 

Like benching them for fumbling will.

 

Sitting a RB for TWO GAMES for one fumble is not the best strategy either, but that didn't stop Tomlin from doing it.

 

You mean winded

 

Quite. We went into the season with four receivers. If you bench one, who would we field when it's 3rd and 2 and we need to go empty backfield?

In contrast, I think we had about fifteen running backs at one point.

 

Dwyer was deactivated for two games after he fumbled in the Raiders game. He was injured in the Skins game and missed a couple of games because of that.

 

I'm not saying that Tomlin should bench a player everytime he fumbles. The issue that I have with Tomlin is that there is a little bit of a double standard, i.e. he plays hardball with the RBs and seemingly gives the WRs a pass. Another issue that I have with Tomlin is that he cuts his nose off to spite his face at times. It was absolutely inexcusable to have Mendy, Dwyer and Redman on the bench while allowing Rainey to carry the load, something he was incapable of doing, in the Cleveland game. I still believe that Tomlin's stubborness cost us that game. Bench the RB for a series or two to send a message, but to sit your THREE BEST RBS down for the remainder of the game was extremely poor judgment on his part.