Le Garrett Blount

lol. Disagree with everything you said. 1. Losing Bell was losing you're running game and taking away your teams 2nd best receiver. 2. Steelers replacing Bell with guys who hasn't played all season and did not know the playbook at all does hurt in today's nfl. Easy for any team to play the Steelers knowing they were going to be a 1 dimensional offence. 3. Ben wasnt off and I don't think he had as bad a game you continue spew. 4. Blount being in there knowing the playbook makes the team again a two dimensional offence believe it or not.

 

As I continue to "spew"? I'm not vomiting here. If you think Ben was on his game that night, okay. We'll agree to disagree. The Jax/Jets/Bucs Ben showed up that night. And since Bell was healthy in those games and we still lost or struggled, I believe we would have lost this one to a quality football team. Ben was off. The D was off. We got out coached and outplayed. The great LGB would not have made a difference. We just picked a bad time to morph back into the team that got slaughtered by the Browns, beaten by the Jets and Bucs, and barely beat the Jags.

 

Seriously? There isn't an unemployed RB in the entire US that can pick up the blitz?

Blitz pickup is the single most important skill a RB can have the NFL today, and we chose to go with two backups who couldn't do the job. We screwed up.

 

I've said this 100 times, go back and watch the games in which Ben struggled and then tell me what the common denominator is. The teams that give him trouble are the ones that rush 4 and collapse the pocket in less than 3 seconds and the last time I looked at the Stat, Ben has the best QB rating than any other QB when pressured. I'm not saying he doesn't have bad games, the Saints game was a bad one for him but my point is we assign a lot of blame yet we ask him to carry a team that can't stop 3rd string QBs or stop washed up RBs from 100+ yard games. Now when it comes to Blount, he needed to go and he says he is happy in NE and guess what, he will be happy until contract time when they dump him for a cheap option, at that point in time other teams will remember how he was with the Steelers and that is if he doesn't get his way he cries because he isn't a team guy, he wants the ball and for how good he is he never can stay on a team too long. Robert Kraft can care less about the players, and Blount will find out when he gets offered a 2 year deal for 2 mil, not a penny more and then watch how hard he tries if has to take it because other teams aren't going to bring him in, he has a poor attitude and BTW, he was rushing again Indy who has an even worse defense that we do and a QB who now has shown the same thing P. Manning has shown us, and that is he can't play outside in bad weather, he will have a hard time winning late in the season on the road.

 

Agree with points 1,2 and 4, but not 3 at all. Ben played a borderline terrible game. Was late on a few throws, missed several, threw a really bad pick and was back to his holding the ball too long ways. He tried to do too much and wasn't up to the task.

 

I don't care about a list of known "names". There are literally hundreds of RBs out there. Hundreds, not dozens.

 

Sitting in their mom's basement improving their skill by playing xbox Madden and wondering why the phone isn't ringing.

 

So at least as good as our backups then?

 

That's not really answering the question.

If there are hundreds of RBs who can pick up the blitz, then the question is which one would have done a better job than Tate or Harris.

Perhaps the more pressing question, though, is why David Johnson wasn't more involved in the Ravens game...

 

This. Jonas Grey (who?) also had 3 or 4 TDs against the colts last time Pats played them. Blount walked out on his team and threw a hissy fit. He's a bum. Good riddance.

 

Agree here. Plus Blount went to NE as their feature back. If NE had a "leveon Bell" type running back blount would be in the same situation as he was in Pittsburgh.

And lets not forget, Blount wasn't that great when he was here. Even though he didn't get a lot of carries when he did he would lose yardage. And why would you take Bell off the field to put Blount in to get him carries when Bell is clearly a better threat.

 

For that Ravens playoff game, I wonder why they didn't put Wil Johnson back there to pass protect. He can surely block, knows the playbook, and is a good receiver for dump offs. Seems to me they had some tools in the box they didn't use.

 

I mentioned the EXACT same thing in a previous threat. I might of been this one. But epic failure by Tomlin and Colbert.

 

they made a playmaker out of hank poteat

 

This. And that's really all that needs to be said.

 

Also consider the fact that really it's all about the Pats horses up front absolutely dominating the "colts" on the other side if you will. Yeah Blount played a good game but he wasn't exactly doing it against a stout run defense as was demonstrated by the fact that pretty much every other Pats rb had great games against them as well. That actually says more about the Pats o line than anything else to me. Put Bell behind that o line and Blount would have been on the bench there as well.

 

What Blount did was wrong and they needed to do something, but release him from the team period!?!? I think there is more that we don't know so I give them the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn't have released him for no other reason that to keep him away from potential rivals but that's me.

Sit him not rid him, not in season, no sir.

 

I think this is right. Mendenhall pouted and didn't show up for a game that was deactivated. He didn't get released, he got suspended for a game. And I'm fairly sure he was a locker room cancer by then too. I'm guessing there was some other reason Tomlin lost patience with Blount. It's funny I was listening to the Fan today, Ron Cook of the PG states that Blount was very unpopular in the locker room. Joe Starkey of the Trib, on his show, said just the opposite, that he was pretty well liked. Don't know what to make of that.

 

I've read that Pouncey was actually the one quoted as saying they should leave him in Nashville. I don't know if it was true though. I do think Blount is a punk though. His behavior before the Steelers was enough to let me see that.