GDT: Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots

Blast Furnace · Sep 9, 2019

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Did he ever do it without double-teaming him? Gilmore shut Smith-Schuster down most of the night and he was usually doing it without help. Granted, Gilmore is one of the top corners in the league, but he shouldn't be able to do it that thoroughly.

At best, the offense still hasn't adjusted to the loss of Brown. If you count the final game of 2018, this is two consecutive games without him and both times the offense was a disaster. It's a small sample size and I hope they can figure some things out, but at some point if you keep losing special players, it's going to have a serious impact. The Steelers might have reached that point.

Is it unfair to say Conner isn't Bell and Smith-Schuster isn't Brown and I don't think either guy is going to get to quite that level? This isn't to say Conner and Smith-Schuster aren't excellent players, but perhaps neither one is capable of being among elite at his position the way Bell and Brown were for the Steelers.
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I'm sure he was double teamed, who said he wasn't? He and AB were both double teamed the last time they played them, why wouldn't Belichick double him now?

Won't know until the coaches film comes out tomorrow but I will be shocked if he didn't see a healthy dose of DT yesterday.

JuJu's xray came back negative so hopefully he'll have a big game against Seattle who just gave up over 400 yards passing to Dalton and the Bengals.

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