My thoughts on regular season wk 17

I said it before, the mid season run the Steelers made was a mirage. It was mostly against bad teams. This team is counterfeit as hell. Early exit from the playoffs coming.

 

Steelers have two more games before their season is over. Enjoy them. Depression will start again after when the Rooney's continue to let Mike Seifert coach the Steelers.

 

played the way we should be playing down the stretch against the ravens game 1. have looked like the same old team every game since. we saw against the ravens game 1 what was capable of this team. what has changed?

austin is not a good coordinator.

minkah has been beaten badly two weeks in a row.

they seem to be playing scared of giving up big plays and that is all they have been doing. go back to what we were doing.

this line is getting worse.

jones is bad.

seumalo is struggling.

moore was playing pretty good until seumalo came back from injury. could this be a problem? we do have a seasoned guard in max scharping, is it time for a change?

they can't keep doing this same thing or it's over.

roberts and robinson on running downs. they are knocking heads off.

where has herbig been?

again whole areas of the field uncovered.

 

Patrick Mahomes treated Patrick Queen dropping into coverage like a shark treats blood in the water, he got picked on when in coverage all game long, his use should be a run-stuffer which he did well today. Queen got eaten alive by Travis Kelce and by Chiefs' crossing routes.

We could have really used Joey Porter Jr. because Donte Jackson had to pick up the CB1 duties and was getting owned

I like Pat Freiermuth, I really do, but today was not his best showing. He failed at run blocking and his fumble in the second half absolutely killed us.

Russell Wilson, the dude everyone in the media cries "Let Him [Russ] Cook!", looks like he is cooked. They way we handled the QB situation bringing in Justin Fields and then replacing him with Russell Wilson was just so counterproductive.

 

BroJo's struggles are well documented, and I have pointed many of them out personally...
I am hesitant to do so much further unless it's particularly egregious.... I can't give an accurate assessment of Jones until he is allowed to develop at his natural position on the left side, which we all know won't happen this season....
If I'm harder on Moore, it's because he IS at his natural position and struggling...
There are more than enough examples to support my current attitude.....
Kevin Dotson
Kendrick Green

Old Fashanu for the Jets had almost equal struggles as Jones and when moved to his natural left side has been top 5 league wide

So excuse me for not being so hard on Jones anymore

 

Next game against the Bengals is very important. If the Steelers win they secure the #5 seed and play at Houston which we probably have around a 40% chance of winning. Lose against the Bengals and we are the #6 seed and have to play at Baltimore where we have about a zero percent chance of winning.

 

Warren should start games

We need to capitalize on forced fumbles

Ball security an issue again

Defensive scheme is an issue against most teams and a major problem against superbowl contenders

3 games in 10/11 days is ridiculous, especially this time of year

I think Omar Khan will be aggressive this offseason

Burrow might throw for 500 yards if our defence plays like this.

 

oh but wouldnt it be sweet to go in to baltimore and have one of them games where they actually show up and knock the ravens out.. Then get blown out the next week in KC

 

Yeah, That was a fugly loss for them..
But I see no backbone here. That's a real problem.

 

You look at the 10-3 record, and you pretend you haven't been watching a team that isn't that good, and then they play some proper teams and then you have to admit to yourself that you have been in denial. The Browns and especially the Cowboys beat down actually told you how good this team was.

This is the Steelers annual movie script, I watch every season and every season I think, the ending will change, and it doesn't. Soooo soooo soo ******* predictable.

 

Look no further then the constant...

 

The only team they can beat in the playoffs is that heap of ****** in Houston.

 

Minkah has been below the line this whole season. DeShon Elliot is out best safety right now. Glad he is signed for another season.

The secondary as a whole is a sieve. In the 4th quarter Kelse was so open and had so much room to make the catch that he had a blanket down and proposed to Swift.

The answer is to relinquish Tomlin of his duties as defensive coordinator and hire one to bring in a more solid scheme, their own. Flores is doing quite well for the Vikings and would have been a solid fit without being micromanaged or being a puppet like Austin. Won't happen and the results will be the same.

 

Jones has bust written all over him. Wasted draft pick at this point so far.

 

3 of the 5 OLs need to be cut and upgraded in the offseason. LT, LG and RT. Keep Frazier and McCormick.

 

Would be typical Tomlin to finally get a playoff win vs that terrible Texans team. No way in hell we are beating Baltimore Buffalo or KC.

 

Now you want to change things if they win it's only because they beat a terrible team no longer just winning a playoff game , Baltimore, Buffalo, KC are all better teams with franchise QBs and will be playing at home .

 

A win is a win but you can’t argue how bad Texans look. I’m not even guaranteeing we would beat them. They probably feel the same about us.

 

The standard is the standard, and they live up to that standard which happens to be non-losing regular seasons.

Apparently, Rooney is more than happy with this standard.

 

I think Rooney has had his fill. He said he expected postseason wins. I think the leash is getting tight on Tomlin and I HOPE it manifests itself with “you are going to make changes” if you’re going to stay. Outside of Arthur Smith and Danny Smith, I think the whole coaching staff needs to be replaced. Teryl Austin and Pat Meyer absofuckinglutely better not be back under any conditions. And Tomlin needs to stop meddling. The fact that we have had ONE assistant hired away and the lack of a Tomlin coaching tree says ALOT about how bad MT really is.

 

Headlines read Steelers got dribbled on Chistmas! And the 2 future HOF Coaches show mutual respect when they shook hands at the end of the game! Shut Reid was probably thinking in his head about MT as Dumbaroosky! Dumbaroosky!

 

I don't know about Ravens. I could see the Steelers playing well and winning if LJ does his usual playoff choke. This would be payback for 2014 playoff loss when Steelers had a better team, but no Le'Veon Bell.

 

I know we can beat Houston. Despite what many on here think, I believe we have a very good team. Yes, our QB situation leaves something to be desired, but Wilson isn't terrible, far from it.
All teams have weaknesses, it's the nature of free agency and the salary cap. We're good enough to beat many teams in the league. It's just whether we rise the occasion or crash and burn like we have lately.

 

@Mashburn I guess Terrell Owens is talking about your boy Pickens.

 

There is no way I would resign #14. They were talking about this on the fan this morning. Selfish and lazy, how he got this far is beyond me.
Martavious Bryant was better than this clown. Only reason he stands out is we don’t have any other wrs other than CA3