Tomlin needs to go on fourth down more often

A lot depends on the distance as well. I am somewhat interested in seeing more of the push play on 4th and short.

Bring in Rudolph for that play. He’s a big strong dude.

 

Not if Arthur Smith is going to call a bad play like he did against the Vikings.

 

I saw Arizona basically hand Green Bay a win this past weekend, they went for it on 4th down near midfield late in the 4th quarter and failed. Green Bay scores a TD to take the lead Arizona would've been better off punting.

 

Give the ball to Washington for the tush push

 

I think this is mostly because basically all the good QBs are in the AFC.

Look at: Mahomes, Allen, Lamar, Burrow, and Stroud. Basically none of these guys has lost to QBs not on this list since their first playoff appearance.

The reason that BUF and BAL are frustrated with Allen and Lamar is that they have to play Mahomes all the time. If these guys were drafted by NFC teams, I think it's pretty likely they have a SB appearance under their belt.

We maybe should have beaten CLE in the playoffs. But I think everyone knows that we were a pretty bad team that year. And once teams realized that Ben didn't have much accuracy on intermediate or deep throws, they realized that all they had to do was cover the short stuff. After the injury Ben was still good at presnap reads. And he could get the ball out quick. But he wasn't good at making throws into tight coverage.

After the CLE game, we got into the playoffs as the 7th seed. We played old-man Ben against Mahomes. Then Mason against Allen. Then Russ against Lamar.

Football is mostly about whether or not your QB is good (just like the best goalie usually wins in hockey and why that great rotation the Dodgers have is likely to beat my Jays).

Rodgers is probably the best option we've had since Ben got hurt. But he's probably still not a top 10 QB in the league (if everyone's healthy), right? Or if he is, he's toward the bottom of that top 10 list.

We certainly need substantial improvement from this D. But we pretty much always look terrible on the road on Thursdays.

 

Of course,the playcalling of this play matter too!

 

Tomlin should kick it on 4th down and 5 out more yards to go at the opponents 48 yard line and closer. No punts! We have an all star kicker.