stillers4me
10-12-2014, 09:32 PM
Getting a nice jump on ghoul season, the Browns piped in part of the original score from “Halloween” every time the alleged Steelers offense faced a third-down situation Sunday, making No. 7 in white the focal point of a Creepshow no one will soon forget.
But don’t blame Ben Roethlisberger exclusively for this football spectacle from some funhouse mirror, for Ben was merely the werewolf in this epic, and if you thought you saw a werewolf with Todd Haley’s Chinese menu of a playlist in his hand, that’s because it was real.
Ah-ooooooo!
Let’s go first to the direct testimony regarding Browns 31, Steelers 10, then we’ll come back for the closing arguments on why the Steelers won’t make anything that can be described as real progress again in this league until someone else is the offensive coordinator.
“I don’t know,” said Roethlisberger when asked if he thought his team’s offensive strategy is correct. “We can all look at the film. Coaches will look at it. We tried to run it in the red zone and when we got down there we just couldn’t quite get it all the way in. We’ll look at it and figure out what the execution, figure out what it is.”
The Steelers wanted to run Sunday, except on third-and-short, when they wanted to throw deep passes to inexperienced wideouts along the sideline. Also, they considered third-and-10 a good situation to hand the ball to Le’Veon Bell, running wide for a yard, maybe 2..............
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/gene-collier/2014/10/12/Gene-Collier-Steelers-need-Todd-Haley-to-take-a-hike/stories/201410120260
But don’t blame Ben Roethlisberger exclusively for this football spectacle from some funhouse mirror, for Ben was merely the werewolf in this epic, and if you thought you saw a werewolf with Todd Haley’s Chinese menu of a playlist in his hand, that’s because it was real.
Ah-ooooooo!
Let’s go first to the direct testimony regarding Browns 31, Steelers 10, then we’ll come back for the closing arguments on why the Steelers won’t make anything that can be described as real progress again in this league until someone else is the offensive coordinator.
“I don’t know,” said Roethlisberger when asked if he thought his team’s offensive strategy is correct. “We can all look at the film. Coaches will look at it. We tried to run it in the red zone and when we got down there we just couldn’t quite get it all the way in. We’ll look at it and figure out what the execution, figure out what it is.”
The Steelers wanted to run Sunday, except on third-and-short, when they wanted to throw deep passes to inexperienced wideouts along the sideline. Also, they considered third-and-10 a good situation to hand the ball to Le’Veon Bell, running wide for a yard, maybe 2..............
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/gene-collier/2014/10/12/Gene-Collier-Steelers-need-Todd-Haley-to-take-a-hike/stories/201410120260