No Huddle

Like you generally say;


"Even a blind squirrel can find nuts."

 

I normally hate the dink and dunk, especially when Brady kills us with it. But it worked well last night. Could have used even a little more of it, to be quite honest. They couldn't stop our out routes. It was a beautiful thing.

 

Not sure why we abandoned it in the first half

 

Dink and dunk seems to usually be the answer against Lebeau's D.

 

It's obvious that Haley got the message. His Hall of Fame bound QB has been calling for it and someone forced Haley's hand.

And the result speaks for itself, as Ben played his best game this season as well as the rest of the Offense.

 

Ben has said it is much easier to run when at home because of the crowd noise (or lack thereof). All the more reason why that December 17th game is so huge if we are to make a deep run in the playoffs.

 

I get that, but they really have to find a way to run it regardless of the venue.

 

The Steelers also said in a short week, the no huddle was best to use because they dont have as much time to game plan. I thing its better because it takes out the predictable play calling by Haley and the overuse of Bell runs up the middle. This is the offense that many of us wanted to see, play action and have Ben attack with his multiple receivers and not so reliant on Bell and conservative game planning.

 

It was a little more empty set than I like to see, but the only real criticism I have of last night's offense was the odd decision to abandon the quick passing for most of the first half. It doesn't have to always be no huddle, but the short passing game was there.

 

I swear the Steelers read these forums. How many times this year were we calling for play action passes? Last night the play action was killing the Titans and resulted in a couple TD. The one to Jesse James from the 1 yard line was a beauty, he and Nix were both wide open. I think Haley finally listen to us when it was so obvious.

 

More like for the first half of the season. Let's see if they stick with it, it seems just when you think it's the turning point, they go back to playing deep ball stupidity

 

They will take their deep shots and they should. The first touchdown was a deep ball. They had a shot on the second drive as well, but Roethlisberger overthrew it.

But they need to focus more on the short and intermediate routes. Of course, the opponent makes a difference. The Titans' safety play makes it tougher to rely on the deep ball, but the spread formations the Steelers employed forced Tennessee into more man coverage.

 

Ok, question:

If they are running no huddle, which has a quick tempo, who is sending the players in and out. One moment we are empty set, next time Bell is in the backfield. Or was Bell just moving back and forth from the line?

 

When you have the weapons we have why not? Also it keeps Ben healthy and that is big time as we will go no place without him.

 

Bell was lining up as a receiver in the empty sets.

 

Those people just like having the squirrel in their pants.

 

The no huddle works well for Ben because it allows him to call plays he's comfortable with based on what he sees. That's great and all until you start building tendencies, which will happen if you use it often.

 

you caught that too glory. the out routes, quick throws and angled routes. ( slants- curls- crossers- digs- stops- comebacks) the go routes or streaks haven't been good most of the time and we started running more angles in the second half and it worked well.

 

Yep, and while you're moving the chains with small ball, you're also sucking up the safety(s). Any of our receivers can break one and take it to the house. Just takes a missed/broken tackle or well placed rub.

 

There was one out route by AB he had Adoree Jackson all turned around.

 

If I'm thinking of the right one, I don't even think he was supposed to turn it out. I really think he was supposed to either work the middle or hook. He started the hitch and then turned it all the way around and out toward the sideline where Ben hit him. It was similar to what he did when Ben missed him and he threw the tantrum.

 

That was a thing of beauty. Looked like a textbook post corner that had the rookie doing circles lol. AB's routes are so sharp and he comes out of his breaks faster than anyone I've ever seen.

 

Adoree Jackson could be on my team anyday, he is covering the best wr in the game. for

a rookie, he was quite impressive.