Random thoughts after W2 Win v MINN

Except New England, they own the Steelers.

 

they had a run game then with ray rice and a very good defense. the bombs away came after that.

 

If you watched the game, you know it was close for much longer than it should have been. Yea, we won, and that is all that matters, but if that is all the better this team can play, under those conditions, we are not a legit contender. Now, do I think we can play better? Sure. How will we fare if we play to that level in Balt? It will be ugly.

 

Yep.


Without the Ray Rice of old, Joe elected to "heave ho". Did not work then.

 

I did watch the game, and I think you are overstating the competitiveness of the game. The defense only gave up one td and really, one long drive. Other than that their offence was non-existent. So if the D plays like that in Baltimore I would be quite pleased. As for the offence, they did leave some points on the field, but they still scored 26 pts against a damn good defense. That is only 4 pts shy of the magic "30" pts a game that everyone wants to see from our offense. I expect them to get better as they are clearly shaking off some rust.
Bottom line is that at this stage in the season I think they could compete with about 90% of the teams out there, including Baltimore, who has quite a few warts of their own. And given the trend I have seen in the first two games, I have reason to believe that by the time we do actually play them , we will see a more cohesive team on both sides of the ball. Therefore, I for one, am not ready to hit the panic button just yet.

 

Wrong they beat Denver in the playoffs their SB year by Flacco throwing bombs to Torrey Smith.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...iracle&usg=AFQjCNFAdlR3HPJvNBaMbkSSNEynM9p4VQ

 

Dupree's shoulder after the game still hurting him but playing through the pain.

Also stated that he was not even aware Bradford was not the starting QB until the 2nd series of the game.

 

Flacco threw bombs like I said, I just had the wrong WR it was Jones not Smith.

 

I'll take both wins even though the offense looks like its missing something. We could have easily played KC then New England and be 0 and 2

 

http://steelerswire.usatoday.com/20...teaching-wr-juju-smith-schuster-how-to-drive/

 

True. That's why it is so important to not lose the "supposed to win" games.

 

Hey fellas, just throwing my 2 cents in. I know this is a random thought post but KC and NE are pretty random considering we did not play either! Random and fictional are two different thoughts.
So anyway, Haley and his idiot game planning against the Clowns put unneeded and unforgivable pressure on our D. In no way do I think it was Ben, or Bell! Those stupid bubble screen/quick 1yard pass plays gives their D an easy situation to deal with, and keeps them tight for the run D too.

I will not knock Haden too much but like I have said before, or something like it, he is not great like he has been heralded. His best plays are when he does not get caught holding, but with that said, I will admit that I have changed my mind and like him on our team because if he can get Brady to hold te ball one second longer that would be great. Then we go back to Haley that gives all Defenses toooooo many chances to have the ball, hell yeah Brady can pick us apart if we can't keep him off the field!

 

a couple of deep passes is not bombs away thats just a game plan. they used rice a lot. bombs away is many of those in one game as we do now and as baltimore does now. big difference.

 

Well you could look at it another way. If it were so easy to go 20 yards how come they only were able to do it once?

 

He hasn't played in a long time . He drops balls and should be way more of a physical presence then he actually is. He had the tools to be great but he's not great . His stats say he's mediocre at best.