Calling all Trolls

That is the smart play. Never bet on games involving your favorite team.

 

Aren't the steelers the most penalized team in the league? As where the cheats are usually the least? And the refs usually turn a blind eye for the cheats? Not this time the league wants the steelers in the playoffs for the ratings. Most of the games come down to the final 20secs, vegas loves it too cus they're unpredictable. As for the 3 for 10 on 3rd down, how many easy drops were there?

 

Steelers are the 16th-most penalized team. NE is 8th-least.

 

Why do I open this thread? I swear, some of this conspiracy-theory crap is so dumb that I may actually be killing brain cells just by reading it.

 

It is Trolling when almost every thread that has been posted since the Steelers lost in the playoffs last year has someone saying "doesnt matter the Steelers will lose to the Pats." There were threads that had nothing to do with the Pats but people would still jump on and say stuff like Drafting Edmunds is stupid, "Gronk is gonna kill us again this year".
Or when people wanted the Steelers to make more moves in the offseason. There would be comments about how we didnt do enough to beat the Pats.
Its very annoying when your on a Message Board to talk about the Steelers but some people want to talk about the Pats more. Go to a Pats board then and tell them how awesome they are.
So, in closing, when the season is over whether we win it all or not it will be a relief to not see people posting in every thread about how "The Steelers will never beat the Pats as long as Brady and Belichek are there".

 

According to this... steelers are the 5th most and NE is the least. Guess 1 game makes a huge difference

https://www.google.com/amp/s/247spo...he-2018-season-through-Week-14-121870592/Amp/

 

Im not a huge Tomlin fan... But you realize that Tomlin has never had a losing season in 12 years. Other then Belichek who else can say that. I get it Tomlin has his issues but so does every coach. Guys like Sean Payton have had 4 7-9 seasons with DREW Breese as his QB.
There are things that Tomlin could do better but when i think how we are always in the thick of it, we get kind of spoiled because of that.
It could be alot worse with some of the other coaches out there.
I dont think Tomlin should be on the Hot seat until he has 2 losing seasons at least.

 

I wish people would stop saying Tomlin botched a challenge. He challenged as NE was getting ready to get a quick snap. So either a challenge or a timeout would have been used.

 

I think the challenge you're referring to was waved off because the officials called forward progress before the fumble. The challenge he 'botched' was on the punt that the Pats kept out of the end zone. Tomlin thought it should have been a touchback, it clearly wasn't. There was no quick snap opportunity on that play, the game went to a TV timeout.

 

I did start a thread on that topic, my point was if they did miss the playoffs it might be better off for them in the long run. That's a little different than hoping the team loses so the coaching staff gets fired.

 

Well the Steelers weren't the most penalized team versus the Pats, that's all that counts. The Pats also were 0 for 3 in the redzone, and Gronk had 2 catches for 21 yards, that's impressive by the defense.

 

yes my reference is to the one where the RB knee may have been down so he was throwing the flag for the spot. I liked the call. I understood why he would want to do that. Seemed like NE was trying to get things going quicly lol

 

Gotcha.
If that play wasn't blown dead (or called forward progress) it would have been a legit challenge IMO.

 

I’m going by NFL Penalty Tracker.

 

I wasn't talking about that one. I was talking about the earlier one. I heard that Tomlin decides challenges all on his own without input from anyone in the booth. I'm not sure that is a good idea since he is 0-10 going back a few years.

 

That's not really trolling unless someone is posting that stuff just to get a rise out of people. It's really just over the top pessimism and negativity which is also very annoying.

 

Playing at home, there has to be a replay availability for someone to shout down a call on the goal-line one.

I would say that, looking at the replay, the NE guy was a lot closer to having a foot on the goal-line than I first thought from the broadcast view. But at the same time I can't see that Tomlin had *that* much of a better view, given the angles, to warrant the challenge.

 

Seeing how poorly the Steelers have been playing the past couple games, along with the Pats record against them it was hard to have an optimistic outlook on the game.

They played great though. It was awesome to see Washington and Samuels having good games. The defense stepped up to the occasion and contained Gronk. They got pressure on Brady.

This gives me confidence going against a very good Saints team.

 

They won, great. Now they need to win this week. Could have had an easier ride but they like to take us all on this head scratching journey it seems. Oh and if you think the bungles are going to lay down think again.

I'm happy as any of you that they beat the cheats. But work needs to be done. That means win both, period.

 

Steelers were in the bottom 5 before that game, thats bad enough. Wish these homers would pull their heads out of the ground once in awhile.

 

How would they make the playoffs if you thought losing would be better for the team? . Thats now, not in the long run.

. ( i didnt go into that thread to see what was said, this is how i see it)

 

You can't see this because you have me blocked, but others can see. Much pessimism and negativity on this board has merit due to facts and truth. The Steelers are a flawed team... that could very well get hot and make a Super Bowl run. Or... they could be one and done again. We'll see.