9th Annual Steeler Prediction Poll

Me too. I think this team is better than people are giving it credit for. I hope I'm right.

 

I just saw this. (Switched jobs last August, and now switching again this August. I don’t like making this an annual thing!)

YES, there will be a Pickem Contest this season. Give me a day or two to set it up.

 

Math is hard.

 

Man people picking 11/12 wins with a 43 year old QB. Yikes.

 

Key injuries aside, which can change everything, I've often thought that when you have a regime change like we've just had, it's just as possible to get worse for a season as it is to get better. With so many pieces changing, it wouldn't surprise me if we started out with some mistakes - especially if we're playing more aggressively - resulting in unexpected early season losses that are difficult to recover from. So, I do think it's possible to have better coaching, a better philosophy and initially a worse result.

I do expect to see the signs of improving units on both sides of the ball. That's what I'm looking for this season, even more than what the final W-L results are.

• Is the offense attacking with a new strategy?
• Are we using TE's and the middle of the field instead of playing not-to-lose?
• Are we allowing Rodgers to use his best tool, his brain, changing plays to counter the looks he sees?
• Are we honing skills for playoff football or just playing it safe?
• Are we developing young QB talent?
• Is the defense adjusting to counter the strength of the opponent? Or are we just "doing what we do"?

 

Hell no. Unless he just falls off, You let him play. He has earned that right

 

I hope everyone that picks 12, and up wins for the season wins this year

 

Can't disagree with that logic.

 

They can be improved and better it doesn't mean the wins will increase though, along with the second half of the schedule being hard.

 

11- 6
Home 6 - 2
Away 5 - 4
Passing Yards 4007

 

Have You actually looked at our schedule??
This maybe the easiest schedule for a division winner by what the teams did last year, and that is the only way to look at them as of right now. Our opponents record overall last year was 143 - 146. We have the 14th easiest schedule in the NFL this year.

 

Oh trust me I’m happy MT is gone but two things here

1. I’m excited about MM offensive mentality as a change but I’m far from sold on how good an overall coach he is. I know when he was first announced I was underwhelmed.

2. AR is 43 years old and I don’t expect him to last the way he did last year. I know people are excited about our backup QBs looking good vs Bus Boys on Thursday but if either have to play meaningful snaps it would be ugly.

That’s why I’m going 8 wins although 9 wouldn’t shock me. 11/12 I feel is insanity.

 

Its simple. If one HC that is considered sucks went 3 straight years of 10 wins with 3 different sets of QBs, including 2 Qbs that are still on the team, the next can't come in, and be considered a better HC, and automatically lose more games, especially with a way weaker schedule.
That's why I picked more wins than what we had last year.

 

This is possible to have a worst record this year (especially if ravens and bengals are better this year) but being better in the long run after that

 

Sure man move the goal post so that your right no matter what. LoL.

 

I let the wife wear the belt every once in awhile.

 

If only things were that binary. I also mentioned I’m far from sold on MM. at least there is hope something MT robbed us from for over a decade.

 

Predictions:

Overall record: 11-6
Home: 6-2
Away: 5-4
Total passing yards: 3300

 

O Line is the big X factor. They will have to be very good to give Rodgers time because he is completely immobile against any decent pass rush. I’m just not sure how I feel about that unit. TF looked awful at LT granted it’s preseason game 1. Besides Frazier lots of question marks.

 

They better stack wins early because like I said the schedule is tough in the second half.
Eagles
Ravens x2
Bengals
Broncos
Texans
Jaguars

 

Broncos qb sucks
Texans qb sucks
True stories
Stroud did everything and I mean everything
To give the Steelers an easy win in playoff game

 

If our defense can hold up
And our offense shows any kind of improvement from over the last 5 yrs
Look out