Nice take from Tomlin

you are correct.
too many fans using the injuries to bell and pouncey as a reason why we lost. they seem to think with them staying healthy we roll to the super bowl. unfortunately i think tomlin and colbert feel the same.
at this time our roster is weaker than last year at cb, s, ot, fb, nt and wr.
we should be stronger at te, c and rb due to FA signing and a healthy pouncey and bell.
the organization seems to be resting its hopes on upgrading those weaker positions by much improved play from last year's 2nd stringers and maybe some help from the draft picks.
im not that confident.
i do realize that the browns suck, ravens are mediocre and the bengals took a big hit in FA, so 10-6 should easily win the division.
i believe our roster is good enough for 10-6 but not confident that it can improve so much to contend for the title.
unless a playmaker cb or s emerges from this draft, i dont see much immediate help at any other position
hopefully i am wrong, but i believe they dropped the ball by not addressing our putrid secondary

 

I'm bummed that they didn't go after Nelson harder but let's see what veteran safeties are available after the draft. I"m going to give Colbert some rope to either corral some real talent in the secondary or to hang himself with.

 

who do we have on our roster that is better at cb than we had last year?
who at OT?
who at S?
coates hasnt proven anything at wr
i would be alright HOPING that someone can step up if it was only 1 or 2 positions, but i see 5 spots minimum. that's a lot to hope for.

 

i'm a huge Tomlin supporter. Most any other coach would have folded with the injuries we sustained last year. He didnt let us sink.

 

We have the draft and free agency. We have to let Colbert do his thing and then see where we are at.

 

blake sucked yet he was apparently better than any of our other cbs that we have now because they couldnt beat him out. golson is nothing more than a rookie, ands rookies dont start for us and produce
our starting safety is gone and our penciled in starter has been a huge bust for 3 years and golden couldnt beat out a 33 year old
Beachum is a better ot than AV.
coates is a downgrade from bryant. period
i did say TE was improved

 

I'm not sure how you come up with Coates being a downgrade from Bryant when you said that Coates proved nothing last year. By that very definition he neither proved that he was better or worse. Could be either one. I tend to believe that he can be every bit as good but I'm only going by potential.

 

ok, coates hasnt proven to be better than bryant.
knowing what you know about each players performance so far in their careers, who would you rather have at the #2 wr potion. who would you want on your fantasy team? if you had to bet a paycheck on who would put up better numbers this year bryant as #2 wr or coates as #2 wr? would you bet a $1000 that coates will put up better numbers than bryant did last year?

 

Common misconception. Sometimes being "playbook deep" keeps someone on the field over another player. This was clearly the case with Blake v Cockrell and snaps. They could run the entire playbook with Blake, and they couldn't with Cockrell. Cockrell's snaps increased over the course of the year as he got deeper into the playbook.

 

im done going around in circles with you on this. i wish i could go along with blind optimism for the improvements made to this team so far, but i just cant.
is it hard to improve on last years secondary? NO. kinda hard not to improve from 3rd worst. do i feel the organization has addressed our secondary enough to make us legit super bowl contenders? NOPE, not yet.
when our secondary continues to be bad/mediocre this season, i'll get back with you.
if they become good/great, get back with me.

 

Nailed it

 

Guess I would take my chances on the guy that can stay on the field. What is Bryant going to do for anyone's fantasy league this year? I will bet you $1000 dollars that Coates puts up better fantasy numbers than Bryant this season. (I don't do fantasy football so I don't really care about all that stuff) I'm not really trying to debate this with you or start an argument. I just notice that your post lean towards the negative and I was showing that you can chose how you look at things.

 

ive done plenty to support my reasons, you just choose to ignore it
also, not sure what 'coach speak' i gave about injuries

 

do you want to bet $100 that coates puts up better numbers this year than bryant did last year?

 

I like how we got "better" by losing Heath haha. He had slown down some but he is still the best TE the Steelers have ever had.

Steelers got worse at WR and NT.

The RB will improve bc healthy.

OL will improve bc healthy.

DL will be worse with McLendon gone.

LB will be about the same maybe lost some depth but Shazier will be better.

CB is worse. Boykin was decent and Golson is unproven. At least Cortez will be better than Blake.

S will be better. Should be addressed in the draft and Golden>Allen.

All in all it isn't bad but secondary needs major improvement.

 

Careful, averaging 3.125 receptions a game isn't shooting for the moon.

 

FWIW, I see a lot of writers on NFL.com calling us one of the main powers in the conference, even with these FA losses.

Of course, we tend to do better as underdogs, but the point is more that a lot of other teams have been losing key guys as well, whereas the big FA winners are the weaker/on the rise teams. Barring NE, of course.

 

i'll make the same offer to you

 

Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir.

 

I will bet you $1,000,000 I don't care about your bet...you in?