Fitchner

Hey JAD.

As I have been stating all summer, and up to this point, this Offense is Loaded and Potent. As I have also been saying, there are so many weapons on this side of the ball. They should be giving opposing defenses “fits”. Look at that listing below folks. If Randy and Ben can continue to effectively “manage” all of this talent, then I say “Watch Out”.

Both Ben and Randy are getting adjusted to some of the “new” guys such as:

• Claypool
  
• Ebron
  
• D. Johnson: Ben only had minimal playing time with Diontae before his injury.
  
• McCloud: Who I never even mentioned before. Maybe he has found a home here with us (smile).
  
• McFarland

Now throw in the “old”.

• JuJu
  
• Washington
• McDonald ( I still want to see more of him. He is "punishing" with the ball in his hands).
• Conner
• Samuels
• Snell

I realize that sometimes there maybe not enough balls to go around each game but it seems that Ben and Randy are keeping everyone happy. Hopefully, they continue to. Equally as important, is that it seems that no one is complaining. Flashbacks of AB. For the record, I still appreciate that which he did for us. Wish he was still here but with a different attitude. Oh well.


STEELWINDS The East Side Kid

 

Hey Stone.

Funny my friend. I would like to think that they work in collaboration with one another. I guess we will really never know what goes on "behind the scenes". Nonetheless, they seem to have a good thing going that I am optimistically going to say should just get better. I believe we are only seeing the "Tip of Iceberg".


STEELWINDS The East Side Kid

 

You might want to watch again and actually pay attention.

 

Why strummer, we ran 5 sweeps to wrs. 5 plays. We knew the Philly front was hard to run against. We had no full back to lead with so we used an extra tackle to get outside. This really is nothing we haven't done before at times. The difference is who we had available to run it.

 

Here you go Mac someone actually wrote about it and included videos. Of course you’ll probably poohpooh the source, but it doesn’t change the fact that our offense looked quite different yesterday due to the use of motion and formations.

https://steelersdepot.com/2020/10/f...s-the-steelers-offense-to-change-its-stripes/

 

Don't tell that to Mac, he doesn't think Canada has any influence on the offense .

 

Back in the day when I was briefly in radio a lot of engineers were clearly more brilliant than the DJ's, and the college kids handling the board thought they were more brilliant. I put Randy in the latter cat.

 

here is another one @mac daddyo




https://www.nfl.com/videos/expectations-for-pittsburgh-steelers-quarterback-ben-roethlisberger-and-steelers

 

When I was a design engineer for the leading digitized voice multiplexer company, my boss, who had a background in analog voice, was soundly ignored by everyone in the company......except himself.

 

Always remember people/fans when #7 attempts are lower than 38, Steelers winning pctg goes way up.

 

A lot of misdirection applied to the backfield yesterday and Ben had them nifty hocus pocus hands selling the shift out of it hahahahahaa

 

Shut the hell up. You are making chit up as you usually do. I never once said he wouldn't have any influence on the offense. You are acting like fichtner is being replaced by him and he's not. That's my stance on it.

 

I don't know what you are referring to in this one strummer, that's from last year. They are at st. Vincent. The new look offense in that one is about no bell and no AB.

 

I saw that and am not poo pooing it. I'm saying we have run some of this stuff in the past. It's not as if it's not in our playbook until Canada got here. He's not been overly successful with it at Pitt and Maryland. It's not a new concept. It also talks of Randy and Canada being the influence of it. Fichtner is not going anywhere. Canada is here to help of he wouldn't have been hired. Ike Hilliard may also have brought some new thinking to the wr usage room in this offense. Ben buying into it was probably the hardest part.

 

that’s odd. Should have linked to an adidi piece from yesterday discussing the changes in yesterday’s offense

 

I thought Fitchner called an excellent game yesterday and I’m usually not impressed with any of our coaches.

 

Canada was great with those jet sweeps at Pitt as well. I agree he is adding new wrinkles to this offense.

 

Faster passes too I think.

 

Just admit you were wrong, and move on