My observations from the Philly foolishness

Been saying this for the last 3 games. Warren is a straight ahead runner that never falls back. Always moving forward for yards. Tough as nails.

 

It might have been a KO, Hog. But yeah, it's beyond frustrating. Well, the one lone bright spot on ST's has been Steven Simms. They look like they found themselves a return man.

 

That first drive I was laughing at the idea that the"scripted" plays were the same as always

But that 2nd drive I started to give Canada some credit

Not 1 but 2 passes to the FB...a wild cat....a Claypool jet sweep pass... and to the FB?

Not a fan of all that... BUT I've not seen it from the Steelers....

But then right back to the same old offense

Shame on me for thinking Canada figured something our

HACK

 

Great take, Thor. I especially and unequivocally agree with numbers 5 and 8. I wanted Davis in the worst way if they weren't going to go tackle/center. I'm beginning to come around to the school of thought that says good RB's can be had either in F/A or later rounds. Taking all these toys when they needed large angry men with bad intentions makes zero sense.

 

1. We have the worst offensive line in the NFL.

2. I really have a love/hate opinion of Minkah. Some games he is great, sometimes he really isn't. I heard on the radio that he may have a hurt knee? Regardless, he just isn't consistent or physical enough to me. Did we overpay and invest too much in him?

3. Claypool and Najee don't know how to use their size and strength to their advantage.

 

Tampa may want to move up to grab a QB.
Answer the phone.

 

One positive I took away is the Eagles have really good players. And their former top personnel guy is now the Steelers assistant GM and will have a huge say in the draft (Khan isn’t really a personnel guy). So there’s that…

 

Funny though....he didn't score again as soon as they changed CBs on Him

 

The last 10 or so years, the Eagles have been good about finding disruptive D-Linemen. Hopefully he can bring that to this team.


I also hope he is better at assessing CB's. We desperately need a top tier lockdown CB on this team.

 

How much more did they really need to score by then?

 

They didn't, but they tried a couple more times to Him ,and it was way better coverage.

 

My take? We're terrible.

 

So many NFL players go to the combine 6’ or so they jump 40”. Yet they can’t raise their arms above their shoulder pads and catch or knock down a pass

 

They just go for the sexy INT and whiff when it's so much easier to swat the ball away. Drives me crazy.

 

Our practice sucks I agree

 

Minkah is no Troy P, that’s for sure. He’s a good player, but can be inconsistent at times.

 

Who covered him? I was traveling today and didn’t watch the game.

 

Witherspoon at 1st, and then they pulled Him for Pierre.

 

Is Flores allowed to comment adjustments to Brown’s 3 TDs or does he just sit up there?

 

I pounded the table for Etienne for months leading up to the 21 draft. I am not giving up on Harris, but I still think Etienne would have been a better fit.

 

The top NFL teams are starting to pull away from the JV teams..

 

He torched Witherspoon twice in the first half. The first touchdown pass looked like it was against a zone. Edmunds and Fitzpatrick were both there.

In the second half, they tried two more deep balls to Brown. Pierre covered him well on one of them. Edmunds was there for the other.

 

My biggest frustration with this team to this point of the season is absolutely the defense. We have the highest paid defense in the league with "2 of the best" defensive minds in the game helping Austin run the show. Even without Watt, this defense shouldn't be this bad. I'm just not seeing adjustments really being made out there. They're just stubbornly running the same sh*t and hoping it works. Last week I felt that the defense was pointing at least in the right direction, and today it just fell flat again. Sure, some credit needs to be given to the Eagles; Hurts and company are really playing at another level right now. But Minkah and Edmunds really didn't help the corners today. As for the corners, Spoon was ahkillin me out there today, oof. I can't look at a single player on defense today and said that they played even a good game. All three levels of defense get an F; the defensive coaching staff gets an F. All around abysmal performance by the defense.

On offense, it's the gawddamn penalties. Penalties like illegal motions, not enough on the line and such are driving me gawddamn bananas. I can understand a holding call here and there to prevent your QB from getting killed. But motha****, these presnap penalties are just getting old. If I see another illegal man downfield penalty, I think I'm going to throw a brick at a homeless veteran on the streets of Portland (I'm obviously being facetious because I was a homeless veteran, but f*ck). I dunno what's up with Najee, but mannnnn that 3rd down catch he made and had maybe a yard, or two, to gain to just danced was brutal to watch. I'm not sure if it's the mental side of the game or what, but I've never seen Najee that indecisive before. That had to have been the worst play of his short career. I still got hopes that he can change things around, but something both mental and physical isn't right with Najee right now. It's unfortunate that Dotson and Moore don't have anyone on the bench that can replace them. As @SteelHack noted above, it was refreshing during that TD drive to see some semblance of creativity. I'll never know why they didn't go back to that especially in the 2nd and early 3rd when they were, relatively, still in the game.

I can accept losing; I'm a Pirates fan, I've seen at least 25 losing season in my fandom due to this fact. Hell, I'm a Pitt fan; I'm used to seeing mediocre football on a yearly basis; therefore, I wouldn't just consider myself some spoilt Steelers fan. I've seen some losing teams and poor offense in the 90's. Vaguely remember the late 80's. The most frustrating part of this team is seeing how inept both the players and coaching staff are. There's a systematic issue at play here. I can't blame Khan for this, because he took over after the draft and 97% of the roster was made before he was really on the job. I'm just really amazed that the combination of Fichtner, Duck Hodges, Mason and James Conner is looking better than the combination of Canada, Mitch, Kenny and Najee to this point. Yea the former had a better OLine, but it's not like Fichtner was some great playcaller also. Perhaps it's just another sign of how much better that 2019 defense was. I dunno. All in all, this is just brutal to watch.

 

And I believe he is the highest paid safety in game?