DC Patrick Graham understands The Standard

Steeler fans may have to live with the real possibility that without a DC-minded HC the defense could be average going forward (i.e, what we saw in 2025). Will you be angry with an average defense if the offense can be consistently top 10 in the league?

 

Sort of

A poster or two just beg to be abused

 

You should know. Everytime you start making it , or saying something political.

 

That makes no sense, you have to be winning big to be in a 4th quarter prevent and Steelers have been wining big in the 4th quarter about 5 games over the past 5 or 6 years.

 

You don't have to be winning big. You do know that many teams on 3, and long have a type of prevent throughout the game.

 

mmm...brownies.

 

Noted. I like jabbing with STD, and meant NO DISRESPECT. I am sarcastic, sometimes self-deprecating, but occaisonally I go too far.

Frustration gets the better of me, but this whole board is just good banter and keeping football interesting. This has helped given the state of the Steelers the past 10 years. (Had to get that in).

 

It's all good.
When I don't like someone, I don't answer their post. I don't put them on ignore because I believe it's weak, but I treat them like a yapping puppy, and pay them no attention. Hell I argue with a lot of people on here that I consider friends. Example: @Blast Furnace , but I never had to agree with everything a person says, or feels to like a person, that I believe is a newly created concept made by the weak minded.

 

Agreed

I can defend myself

But there is definitely one yap dog who I have to occasionally chase away

But many here do so with the same pathetic little mongrel

 

Not clear. What is a DC-minded HC? Was Tomlin a DC-minded HC?

 

Yes....obviously.

 

Who didn't dread going into a playoff game with a Tomlin defense?

2017 42-45
2020 37-48
2021 21-42
2023 17-31
2024 14-28
2025 6-30

I'm confident that our defense will be better under McCarthy.

 

This is possible but the defense were also brutal in Green Bay come playoffs time under McCarthy with the exception of 2010.Look at 2009,2011,2012 and 2016

Of course the difference,McCarthy is a offensive coach but he stick too long with Dom Capers who was washed with his outdated scheme at the end(his scheme was great for the 1990s and 2000s but not after 2010 with the new safety rules in the nfl)

 

Mostly because the defense will not be under McCarthy

 

Maybe

Depends on if those stats are a function of defensive philosophy or old players getting tired by the 4 th quarter.

The core of our old defense is a year older

 

hey what did I ever do to you. That's mean.

 

Tomlin retired

Old irrelevant statistical regurgitation

 

You called us “Browns”

That stank

 

This post was not about Tomlin...It was about the defense and what need to improve

 

Do you want to think about the foolishness of that comment or maybe wait for someone else to post it and you can cut and paste

I’m not wasting time explaining it to you it won’t sink in and you will change subjects