Who were the MVP's of todays Bengal-Steelers game

[steelerkitty]

Let me guess.....https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5SMojtXQFAdTpkziDw8zGmrEM8FN9T pXOlfGgGuwx-KHcZjC_Qw

[86WARD]

Steelers wound up on the good end of a lot of bad calls...lol. I'll take it!!

As far as game balls, D-Will, Berry and Shazier get them IMO.

[Edman]

Gonna give a shout out to Xavier Grimble.

He stepped up big today.

[steelerkitty]

Steelers wound up on the good end of a lot of bad calls...lol. I'll take it!!

As far as game balls, D-Will, Berry and Shazier get them IMO.



I say Jesse James was huge with his critical catch, as was Coates as much as anyone. Also...Mother Nature deserves MOST of the credit.

[tube517]

TEs had a good game. Not MVP but they showed they can catch the ball when needed.


Game ball to Berry and DeAngelo

[Hawkman]

Berry gets mine. Bungles were stuck inside the ten, what 4/5 times.

[86WARD]

I forgot...Jesse James gets one too.

[BlackAndGold]

No love for Cockrell? he covered Green today.

[steelerkitty]

No love for Cockrell? he covered Green today.


He was beat quite often. The only thing was a lot of times the field and wet conditions saved him. He was nothing great.

[BlackAndGold]

He got the job done. Green only had 2 catches.

[Mojouw]

Butler. Continues to make chicken salad out of chicken crap with the defense. Another solid gameplan. Bled yards, but not points. Also seems to have fixed the problems with teams flooding one zone and forcing someone to try and cover 2-3 receivers at a time - see the Seattle game last year. Nice to see a Steelers coordinator appear to be willing to adapt to their personnel and learn from mistakes.

Berry. Almost single-handedly won the field position battle.

[Steeldude]

Weather

[st33lersguy]

DWil, Coates, the TEs, Shazier, and Timmons

[polamalubeast]

The Red zone offense and defense!

[DesertSteel]

I'm giving my game ball to Coates.

[Devilsdancefloor]

Cockrell and dwill

honorable mention mcberry

[steelreserve]

Williams, special teams and honorable mention to the tight ends.

Coates had a couple nice plays, but was largely shut out for big stretches of the game. Kirkpatrick really had his number. So ... good that we took advantage of the matchup when we had it, but I am still not 100% sold that he's ready to completely full Bryant's shoes.

[Count Steeler]

Golden had a pretty good 1st half.

Seems like Butler is dropping more guys into coverage and not blitzing, sending 3 and 4 on most downs. Defense is giving up a lot of yards, but not a lot of points. It is interesting to see Butler's plan unfold.

Gramps had a pretty good game. The TEs are stepping up.

[steelerdude15]

D-will, Kris, and Jordan.

[Craic]

Berry.

Outside of him, it was very much a team win. It was nice to see the rookies making plays. I know Burns let a guy go buy him, but he also did well deflecting a TD pass, and from what I could tell (was watching it on a small computer screen), that PI call got the benefit of "looking bad" rather than actually being PI, just the ref was in the wrong—or right, for a Bengals fan—position.

[Psycho Ward 86]

Any gameball thread for today without Berry is hogwash. If Berry didnt play as sharp as he did the past 2 weeks, this game might not even make it to overtime...in the bengals favor

[fansince'76]

Any gameball thread for today without Berry is hogwash. If Berry didnt play as sharp as he did the past 2 weeks, this game might not even make it to overtime...in the bengals favor

Not sure I'd go that far. Sloppy play or no, IMO the Bengals got pretty thoroughly outplayed today, particularly in the 2nd half.

[Craic]

Berry definitely deserves recognition for burying the Bengals deep in their zone a number of times, but quite a few others deserve some recognition, too. I really liked seeing Hargrave hustle twenty or so yards and catch up to a (RB? TE?) for the tackle. VERY nice to see the engine not stop on the kid.

I thought D.Will showed his age a bit, but then, at other times he had a spurt of speed and almost always, he drove the pile. On top of that, he was playing against a good defense, so there's that as well.

[polamalubeast]

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[DesertSteel]

Cockrell for Pro Bowl... you heard it here first

[tube517]

Cockring!

[Rotorhead]

Cockrell played well I think. He was beat a couple times, but he was going up against one of the top WRs in the league. He almost had an INT also. Berry was great as was DWill. On a Day when Ben was off target (he missed a wide open AB on 2 sure TD's!) the Def stepped up and shut down a good Bungles team. So gameballs are Berry, DWill, Cockrell and the Defense.

[teegre]

He was beat quite often. The only thing was a lot of times the field and wet conditions saved him. He was nothing great.

Think about it this way: Antwan Blake.

Yep. I'll take that performance by Cockrell 100 times out of 100.

[Mojouw]

Think about it this way: Antwan Blake.

Yep. I'll take that performance by Cockrell 100 times out of 100.

He was in single coverage with limited safety help on AJ Green. What exactly is the standard here? Can you imagine Blake in the same setting?

How is the stat line from yesterday anything but a win? Green had one of the worst games of his pretty good career yesterday - http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeA.00/gamelog/

Cockrell still sucks. :rolleyes:

[teegre]

He was in single coverage with limited safety help on AJ Green. What exactly is the standard here? Can you imagine Blake in the same setting?

How is the stat line from yesterday anything but a win? Green had one of the worst games of his pretty good career yesterday - http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeA.00/gamelog/

Cockrell still sucks. :rolleyes:

I worked SpEd for many years, and one day an administrator walks in and sees Robbie yelling: "F*ck you, Jimmy. Give me back my f*cking pencil!!!"

The admin was agasp that a student would use such foul language. Then, I reminded the admin that just two months prior, Robbie would have turned over all of the desks, punched Jimmy in the face, and still unleashed a bevy of curse words.

In other words, we are measuring things in terms of progress (not perfection).


Furthermore, using the above Robby analogy, Cockrell requested: "Jimmy, you accidentally took my pencil. Give it back... ugh... please."

[Mojouw]

I worked SpEd for many years, and one day an administrator walks in and sees Robbie yelling: "F*ck you, Jimmy. Give me back my f*cking pencil!!!"

The admin was agasp that a student would use such foul language. Then, I reminded the admin that just two months prior, Robbie would have turned over all of the desks, punched Jimmy in the face, and still unleashed a bevy of curse words.

In other words, we are measuring things in terms of progress (not perfection).


Furthermore, using the above Robby analogy, Cockrell requested: "Jimmy, you accidentally took my pencil. Give it back... ugh... please."

Well....now I am sitting in my office trying to explain to others what I am laughing out loud out! Thanks!

[polamalubeast]

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[pczach]

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That tweet puts Cockrell's performance in its proper perspective.