My observations from the Minnesota meltdown

1. Games are won by playing 60 minutes

2. Chase Claypool continues to show that he's an immature knucklehead

3. As TJ Watt goes, so goes the defense

4. The last play, Ben threw a perfect pass, but Harrison Smith made an even more perfect play.... I can't even be mad about it

5. I have no words to express what I saw in the first half

6. We are officially playing for pride the rest of the season

7. Akiello Witherspoon may have earned himself a long term extension if his play remains constant

8. About time the coaches remembered James Washington was still on the team

9. Nice rebound, but there are no moral victories

10. I get the feeling that more than 1 coach will be replaced at the end of the season

 

#10 - that coach won't be Tomlin. Butler probably gets axed. Maybe Canada too.

 

Defense sucks with or without watt. This team needs a whole rebuild to stop the run lol

 

You’re 100% right, B&G. GREAT throw by Ben on the last play, unfortunately a FANTASTIC defensive play by the safety.

 

What happened, I saw Marcus Allen and Buddy Johnson out there? Is Bush getting demoted?

 

One can only hope

 

Friermuth has to make that catch. We hear all the time about how the guy has Velcro for hands and he goes and drops an absolutely perfect pass with the game on the line. Pat Fry is a good player and a good tight end but let’s stop the comparison to Heath Miller. That was more a dropped ball then a great play by Harrison Smith.

 

He was hit by two guys, I'm not going to crush him for not holding onto the ball, you have to give their defense credit for making a play.

 

Claypool might want to stay off social media this week. Idiot. Juju created that monster but Juju would never celebrate a catch in that situation with time running out.

 

It was a bang bang play, he caught it with his hands ... it doesn't look like had much of a chance to bring it in to his body. It was knocked out immediately.

 

The defense actually played pretty well in the 2nd half without TJ. But I get what your saying. I even agree with you but they seemed to play a whole lot better in the 2nd half.

 

I wouldn't get too excited about Witherspoon, we thought Pierre was going to be something and he's now benched. That idiot ran to endzone to celebrate an int, while the team was getting their asses kicked .

 

They didn't have enough pressure on Cousins, they had no sacks in the game.

 

Steelers D just gave up the most rushing yards to any RB in a single game this season in the entire league. This is the worst steelers D we've seen in a generation.

 

Ben is still a very good QB. He threw for over 300 yards and 3 TDs 1 int tonight and put a ball where it needed to be to be caught to bring us within 2. The defense made a nice play on the ball. Ben played hard. It's to bad he's going to be looking at a season like this as his last one

 

I said they played better. It was not an all star effort but at least they got the ball back a few times.

 

I saw Marcus Allen out there too. He got burned by Dalvin Cook for a crucial first down

 

It was a catchable ball. Would it have been difficult sure. But I think he dropped it more then the corner making a play on it. That ball has to be caught in those situations period.

 

We’ve been spoiled because we’ve seen Muth secured more uncatchable balls than that

 

Charlie Batch was saying Olinemen weren’t helping Ben up after sacks all night. Poor.

 

Ben makes the perfect pass and Muth drops the ball. It happens.

I am sure Muth would be the first one to admit that he screwed up and dropped the ball.

 

No doubt. Ben got the living daylights beat out of him tonight.

He will enjoy these next 7 days off more than anyone else on the team.

 

In a down year when we had a chance to compete for SB, with Mac Jones, Ryan Tannehill, and Lamar Jackson at the top of the AFC, we let the playoffs slip away. That's a big fkup.
This team has no direction.

 

I agree...I thought our offense would have played better this year, and make a run at it.

Look at James Washington tonight, why can’t we get this out of him all year? It seems our coaches aren’t putting players in position to be their best.

 

Yeah, they just couldnt get over the hump this year. This is the worst assimilation of talent that we've seen for awhile now. I think when a lot of people look back on it they're going to wonder how the team has won as many games as they have. It would be nice to go through a full season injury free, but every team deals with it so everything seems to cancel each other out there. Timing of bad penalties and bonehead plays (Ala Claypool) needs to be addressed in a more firm manner. I wish there was like a cuss accountability jar for these players. You make a penalty or bonehead play that costs the team and you get escalating fines. It's likely illegal to do something like that which is probably why I never hear about it, but just food for thought.