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Tomlin Plans To Play Bell And Blount Tonight

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by TerribleTowelFlying, Aug 21, 2014.

  1. TerribleTowelFlying

    TerribleTowelFlying Staff Member Site Admin Mod Team

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  2. darcrav

    darcrav Well-Known Member

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    good move

    they still need to work

    not like we lose them for the season for this incident
     
  3. Steel_in_DC

    Steel_in_DC Well-Known Member

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    Really wouldn't make sense since it is a pre-season game. Also this is technically the dress rehearsal and you do want to see how they play in the starting rotation. But I do wonder if Poole might get a chance to run with the first team on one series considering that some time of game suspension seems imminent.
     
  4. shaner82

    shaner82 Well-Known Member

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    Good! Benching them serves no purpose. They aren't going to stop smoking weed just because Tomlin benched them for 1 week.
     
  5. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    Don't you wish all of our employers were this tolerant?
     
  6. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Preseason benching would be meaningless to them. Would have to do it in the regular season and then you are just hurting the team.
     
  7. knab70

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  9. BurgherBoy7

    BurgherBoy7 Well-Known Member

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    Wouldn't you have liked to be a fly on the wall when Tomlin talked to these two? No point in benching them tonight.. But there will be some type of punishment handed down from the organization for their stupidity, probably first and second game. Bell deactivated against the browns, Blount deactivated against the ravens.. Just cuz of the inexperience we have at RB after these two.
     
  10. TerribleTowelFlying

    TerribleTowelFlying Staff Member Site Admin Mod Team

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    Honestly, playing them most of the game would be more punishment than sitting them. As a rule, vets don't like playing in preseason games. Most view it as 'playing for free' as they don't get their game checks.
     
  11. Thigpen82

    Thigpen82 Bitter optimist

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    Yep. It's a good move.
     
  12. CANTON STEEL

    CANTON STEEL Well-Known Member

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    Ya know, that's a good point and I hadn't thought of it in that way. All 4 quarters it is then. :thumbs_up:

    But seriously, it doesn't serve much purpose to bench them this game, and as darcrav stated, they need the work.
     
  13. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    It probably went something like this.......
    Tomlin - Guys this is Pennsylvania! Not Colorado, Washington or even Cali.
    Bell - uhuhuhuahaha, he said Cali, uhuhuhahaha
    Blount - Shut up Bell. Ur giving me a bad name.
    Bell - uhuhuhahaha. Sorry Spleef.
    Blount - Well thats better.
    Tomlin - You guys are stoned right now aren't you?
    Bell - uhuhuhahaha. He said Arent.
    Blount - Arnfelt wasn't with us. Just some bimbo but you see it was all of our pot. We all want to claim it.
    Tomlin - Why didn't you pin it on the chic? Then there would not be this discussion!
    Bell - uhuhuhahaha. He just said Chic.
    Blount - I tried but Leveon kept saying Blunt, blunt, blunt. When the cop asked if that was Blount in the car, Bell just passed it to him.
    Bell - uhuhuhahahaha - Coach, When are we playing the Bronco's away?
    Tomlin - We're going to try and work that out for the suspension game.
    Bell - uhuhuhahaha. Seattle?
     
  14. lovembig

    lovembig Well-Known Member

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    thats the right move. unless they were giving the cop and bunch of grief they did nothing wrong according to 20 plus states.

    im sure Goodell is gonna suspend them both for 8 games while Rice got a slap on the tush for knocking his then girlfriend out and then dragging her around, but hey what else would you expect form Goodell the clown.
     
  15. Busman

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    Oddly enough there were the shining light on offense
     
  16. D0bre Shunka

    D0bre Shunka Well-Known Member

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    Would have played both the entire game.
     
  17. Busman

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    Me too
     

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