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stillers4me
12-19-2010, 08:11 AM
The offense has bogged down lately and, in the past, the remedy was quick and effective. Run the no-huddle. The quarterback loves it, he is in his prime and he once delivered a Super Bowl victory deploying it to perfection.

This season, though, the no-huddle has been no mas, a little-used weapon on a team that could use every tool in its offensive bag.

"This is the least amount, other than my first two years, that we've run the no-huddle," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said....................

Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10353...pid=sports.xml (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10353/1111665-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml)

43Hitman
12-19-2010, 08:17 AM
Here is the rest of the article. ;-)

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10353/1111665-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml

stillers4me
12-19-2010, 08:21 AM
Here is the rest of the article. ;-)

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10353/1111665-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml

Sorry guys...I have a massive head cold and too many browser windows open. :chuckle:

43Hitman
12-19-2010, 08:23 AM
Sorry guys...I have a massive head cold and too many browser windows open. :chuckle:


Its all good. I had your back. :-) Today's win will make you feel better, I promise. :-)

SMR
12-19-2010, 08:26 AM
Here is the rest of the article. ;-)

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10353/1111665-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml

Thank you Hitman!

LLT
12-19-2010, 10:06 AM
I had wrote about this in a different thread. In a no huddle the WR is going to make a read at the line. If his read is different than what the QB is seeing, then bad things happen. Veteran recievers who have worked with their QB for an extended amount of time know how to communicate the change in his route....with Sanders, Brown, Randle el and Johnson...there is way to much chance for a mistake.

Couple that with a patchwork line and we have a situatuion in which a no huddle might work for a small amount of time...but as soon as the defense trades out their "Will" linebacker for a nickel back...we probably wont be very successfull.

Texasteel
12-19-2010, 10:51 AM
I know a few people have been screaming for the no huddle, and the QB would like to get back to it, but the way this teem is right now it still scares me a little. If we use it, I hope it is in short spurts. Of course the best situation is that I am totally wrong, and we use it to tear the Jets to pieces.

HometownGal
12-19-2010, 12:29 PM
I'd absolutely love to see the no-huddle more but can completely understand why BA is hesitant to use it as much as he and Ben would like to. If we see it this afternoon - fine and if we don't - as long as the O puts points on that board, I'm A-OK with it. Sanders and Brown are coming along very nicely but with the state of that OL, I'd prefer to play it safe until the time comes when everyone is on the same page. Hopefully that will happen in the playoffs. :pray:

zulater
12-19-2010, 01:39 PM
The problem, as Arians noted, is if one of those players misses a call in the no-huddle, the play can blow up into something ugly.


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10353/1111665-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml#ixzz18aWju47S

Like that isn't happening already?!

Steeldude
12-19-2010, 02:46 PM
The problem, as Arians noted, is if one of those players misses a call in the no-huddle, the play can blow up into something ugly.

like they do when they aren't running the no-huddle.

how many errors has arians admitted to. he admits he never practiced/prepared for 3-4 defense. then he states how his poor play calling in the red zone had hurt the steelers.

arians should be using more short routes. maybe he will learn that in 2015.