Ike apologizes.

Win or lose, the guy mans up. He definitely wasn't the only one who played poorly on the D.




http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/51953/ike-taylor-apologizes-for-performance

 

I couldn't imagine ending the season on such a sour performance and having to live with it for the next 9 months, if not longer. I appreciate him taking accountability.

 

He's right about his performance: it was ugly!
Still, this gesture is classy.

 

Ike did have a bad game but where was the pressure on Tebow? He had way to much time to throw the football.

 

Shoulda, coulda, woulda Ike you stunk, Period. Owned by a rookie,
or second year player. I hope Chuckie Brown/Keenean Lewis can take your job next year.
Shouldn't suprise me Cowher benched you awhile back because you got owned by another Denver Receiver. Cowher saw what I saw an Avg CB.

 

What a tool!!! Yea ike stunk it up, but everyone seems to be forgetting he a big part of why we got where we were this year. Ike is a starting CB and will be back stronger than ever next year! Everyone seems to forget that ike wasnt the only one stinking it up sunday, it was the whole team from coaches down!!!

 

They should cut Ile and Gay and start fresh

 

Thanks for manning up IKE...but your not the only one who had a bad game

 

:? :? :o :? :?

 

Yeah - because that usually works. Even Gay had a good season this year. Not my favorite player, but to blow it up is not where this team is right now.

 

Pretty much the same place it's been all year. Non existent

 

I've been bashing Ike on here and other places as well. I was just so disappointed and frustrated. I've had time to cool down now and I really appreciate Ike for maning up and apologizing for his bad game. I also appreciate the fact that we probably had the #1 pass defense because of him and we were in the playoffs because of his great playing this year. The NFL playoffs are not like other sports where if you have a bad game you can get them in the next game. It's one and done and that is what makes the NFL playoffs so great and exciting to watch.

So with that said, I'd like to aplogize to Ike as well for bashing him. May he use this as motivation for next year. Go Steelers!

Blitz

 

Ike was put on an island all day, he was 1 on 1 with a very athletic receiver with NO help over the top. plus all the balls thrown to him were extremely accurate, tebow made great throws all day, if one of them were off it is a different game. I think the loss of clark was felt more by Ike than anyone else.

 

Your not saying he didn't have a bad day are you? He has had NO help at times all year long against MUCH better QB's and made outstanding plays. He played a bad game and we pretty much lost because of it.

Blitz

 

Maybe now he will stop with that waiving his hand in front of his face crap when he does make a play.

 

The lack of ANY effing pass rush is the issue. Ike didn't have a great day, but you're expecting him to cover over the top, sometimes with NO HELP when the QB has 5, 6, 7, 8 effing seconds to throw the ball. Utterly ridiculous to put this all on Ike Taylor. We generated ZERO pass pressure. NONE all afternoon. Our young D- lineman were totally ineffective and they were able to double an outside linebacker almost every time. No corner can be expected to cover man to man with minimal safety help for an indefinite period of time.

 

Ike should apologize for hanging Mundy out to dry and have to field all the post-game questions.....

 

I agree with this thought... I think once, ONCE Woodley almost grabbed Tebow and that was the big pressure of the game. And, to my amazement, no one is mentioning the fact that Clark was out. He plays a bigger role than he is given credit for and it showed during this game. I, firmly, believe that was a big reason our secondary struggled. Without Clark it changes what Troy can do and, apparently, what Ike and Gay can do (although I think Gay played a good game).

 

He did have a couple bad games this year. Cant remember the game where he got called PI many times but its not entirely all his fault.

 

At times (and not as much as we all would like) there was a pass rush and he would just move away from it and complete the pass. After Harrison got the roughing the passer penalty he looked like he was frozen out there not knowing what to do at times or where the ball was. And when you say indefinite, the pass in OT was out of Tebow's hands in 2 seconds not 5 to 8. How about some bumping at the line to throw the guy off a little bit? The receiver burnt him on that play. I'm not putting this all on Ike but he has several times this year been able to cover with NO HELP against much better receivers and QB's. I have to look but how many pass defenses did he have? I think it's ZERO...it seemed, I have to go back and look, that every single ball thrown to his receiver was caught. That is totally unlike him and he just picked the worst time to have a bad game.

Blitz

 

He also had a particular rotten game against Denver & Javon Walker in 2006, come to think of it. But, his interception in SB XL- one of the key plays of that game- still overcomes anything he did Sunday, at least for me.

 

Lebeau should be next to man up and apologize and take the pressure off of Taylor. Taylor had a bad game, but where was the adjustments to correct this.

I coached high school ball and i had a corner have a HORRIBLE game. I took him out for a few plays. Let him see what they are doing. Let him get his thoughts and technique together. Then I changed my tactics. I gave him help. Taylor could not cover Thomas one on one, that was obvious after the first two bombs. Give him some help. Thomas was there only legit receiver. Double team him, play someone over the top, go to zone anything other then what you were doing.

They were not killing us that bad that required 9 MEN IN THE BOX. Especially with our corners. It's only two corners I would use 9 in the box as a technique. Revis and Deion Sanders.

 

Something was working..the Broncos only had I believe 10 total yards the ENTIRE first quarter. So I'm assuming that was the reason for no adjustment. The second quarter killed the Steelers and so they went into half time where they must have made adjustments because the entire 2nd half Denver only had 3 points and 140 yards. That gave us the ability to catch up and tie it. Where LeBeau got schooled was in the OT play. Denver ran 23 out of the previous 24 times on first down and he had to be confident they would run again and called an inverted zone. Denver's O coordinator had to be drooling after they won the coin toss knowing that the Steelers would almost certainly play the run and he called for Tim Tebows best pass play and they executed it to perfection.

The question that I'm sure we all would love to know and that Tomlin refuses to answer...Was Mundy out of position on that play or did LeBeau tell both safties to crowd the line?

Blitz

 

We can only hope...