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Waiting For Bryant To Get Going
He caught a break by the spotlight being on Bell not reporting, but the observations that Bryant is not yet back to what is expected are starting to increase
This from Ben last week
“I talked to him (Monday) and said, ‘No more rust. You've been here long enough. We have to have it all off,” Roethlisberger said. “We can't have any more ‘My bads, or, oh yeah, I forgot that. We've got to be ready to go full speed, and I need you at your best from the get-go.'
http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/...ng-to-be-ready
And this from Gerry Dulac of the P-G in his chat today
One year away from football apparently generates a lot of rust and timing issues....
Bryant, so far, looks NOTHING like the receiver we knows he is or can be. It's been that way since camp.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/s...s/201709130133
Will be interesting to see if Haley (or Ben on his on) go with something other than screen plays to try and get Bryant going
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Yep everyone worried about Bell but Bryant has not look like anything special since his preseason games. All the hype about his training and the muscle he put on is not impressing.
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He probably has to learn how to play with a clear head. I'm not being facetious either. At one time I played A LOT of pool, I'm not saying I was a pro or anything like that, but I could hold my own
against 90% of the players I went up against. When I quit smoking cigarettes 15 years ago, I literally had to change my rhythm and mental approach completely. It took about a year to finally get
comfortable again. I was so used to being able to just pick a smoke when things got a little stressful and it would help calm me down, once that was gone though, it was tough. In the long run I was a
better player because of it, but it didn't come with out its growing pains.
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Expecting him to be his old self at this point of the season is unfair. He missed all of camp and season last year and didn't practice until early August this year.
Patients.
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BlackAndGold
Expecting him to be his old self at this point of the season is unfair. He missed all of camp and season last year and didn't practice until early August this year.
Patients.
This
He will be fine in the midseason.
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43Hitman
He probably has to learn how to play with a clear head. I'm not being facetious either. At one time I played A LOT of pool, I'm not saying I was a pro or anything like that, but I could hold my own
against 90% of the players I went up against. When I quit smoking cigarettes 15 years ago, I literally had to change my rhythm and mental approach completely. It took about a year to finally get
comfortable again. I was so used to being able to just pick a smoke when things got a little stressful and it would help calm me down, once that was gone though, it was tough. In the long run I was a
better player because of it, but it didn't come with out its growing pains.
No pro at pool either but am better then most around and the beer always help me to relax. Maybe he is just ordinary without weed to relax him.
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Anyhow no more screens to him please and start throwing a few deep to him.
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It'd be nice if JuJu could pick up the slack...
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DesertSteel
It'd be nice if JuJu could pick up the slack...
I believe he will, it may take him till week four or so though. He is a very young WR. That's why we may see Rogers more than JuJu for the time being in our 3 wide sets.
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DesertSteel
It'd be nice if JuJu could pick up the slack...
Hasn't showed much either.
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At least we was smart enough to pay the next Jerry Rice.
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Right now not impressed with Bryant or JUJU. Rogers looks good though and hard to see him coming off the field for JUJU. Mid season though both JUJU and Bryant should be very good. I hope.
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DesertSteel
It'd be nice if JuJu could pick up the slack...
OR at least do something other than commit holding penalties
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Expectations on the offense are way too high. We have a group of starters that have not played together in YEARS, let alone MONTHS. They have not played together in preseason, or training camp.
Frankly, I expect the O to drop off a bit this year, while the Defense rises to stardom.
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Sadly right now our wr core outside of Brown don't look any better then last year. Lot of that is on Haley though in my opinion.
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Edman
Expectations on the offense are way too high. We have a group of starters that have not played together in YEARS, let alone MONTHS. They have not played together in preseason, or training camp.
Frankly, I expect the O to drop off a bit this year, while the Defense rises to stardom.
I expect the offense to be better in mid season, but for now, we have to be patient.
Our defense is going to be the unit that will help us to win games in the first half of the season and fortunately they will not face a lot of elite offense in the first half.
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JimHarbaugh'ssoakedtissue
Sadly right now our wr core outside of Brown don't look any better then last year. Lot of that is on Haley though in my opinion.
They will be better, I have no doubt, just need to be patient.
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Bell and Bryant will not be invisible for the whole season, this is impossible.
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I'm sure they will and like I said Haley ain't helping them any.
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JimHarbaugh'ssoakedtissue
I'm sure they will and like I said Haley ain't helping them any.
It was one of the worst games from Haley that I've seen since he's with us.
It will not happen to every game!
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polamalubeast
It was one of the worst games from Haley that I've seen since he's with us.
It will not happen to every game!
Agreed.
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Always great to come out with a win vs the Refs and Haley.
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BlackAndGold
Expecting him to be his old self at this point of the season is unfair. He missed all of camp and season last year and didn't practice until early August this year.
Patients.
Exactly, once he gets his sea legs back, look-out!
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Eli and The Outlaw are key here to help take the pressure off AB a little bit in the first few weeks. I think Bryant will take a few weeks to get in the form that he was in 2014-15. I am not expecting much from Juju this year because he's been battling injuries through preseason and that puts the rookies behind. Not that I think Juju can't step up.
I'm not too worried about Bell as he will get back into shape.
People are pissed about the first game but the Steelers are notorious for starting slow. It seems every year they start 2-2.
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I want to see more 2-3 vertical routes to consistently keep a deep threat. Bryant is the perfect WR to be one of those. He will draw a double even if not at 100%. If AB also draws double, #3 is wide open. If not, the run/flat is open. Keep moving the chains. We will dominate the redzone this season.
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Born2Steel
I want to see more 2-3 vertical routes to consistently keep a deep threat. Bryant is the perfect WR to be one of those. He will draw a double even if not at 100%. If AB also draws double, #3 is wide open. If not, the run/flat is open. Keep moving the chains. We will dominate the redzone this season.
You'd be a better OC than Haley!
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polamalubeast
You'd be a better OC than Haley!
Most Mondays thru Weds I am.
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Interesting nugget from the Dulac transcript:
"14 teams, including the Steelers, had fewer than 300 yards offense. That's almost unheard of. And sacks were way up. Give Week 1 to the defense."
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Psycho Ward 86
Interesting nugget from the Dulac transcript:
"14 teams, including the Steelers, had fewer than 300 yards offense. That's almost unheard of. And sacks were way up. Give Week 1 to the defense."
To put it another way: Only one team averaged under 300 yards per game on offense a season ago. So roughly half the NFL in Week 1 resembled the 2016 Rams offense.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...efensive-trend
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polamalubeast
It's only one week. Things are gonna return to "normal" over the course of the season. Wonder what the Week #1 stats are for the past 3 or 4 years?
I bet they are universally low. No one does preseason anymore.
Kind of like how in April and May a bunch of random dudes in baseball are hitting over 300 and jacking homers left and right. Then the pitchers get into a groove and suddenly those same dudes are batting the Mendoza line and haven't hit a ball out of the infield in forever.
Offense is so intricate and the guys don't play together much -- its gonna take several weeks to wind up the machine.
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Mojouw
It's only one week. Things are gonna return to "normal" over the course of the season. Wonder what the Week #1 stats are for the past 3 or 4 years?
I bet they are universally low. No one does preseason anymore.
We have a winner. Historic level of offensive ineptitude as it turns out: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/9...fense-10-stats
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Psycho Ward 86
That is way worse than I thought!
Full disclosure, I actually thought that 2017 Week 1 would be about the same as say 204-1016 week one. BUt, boy HOWDY! Was I wrong about that!
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Psycho Ward 86
Goodell will be in panic soon if this is a trend this year!
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Mojouw
That is way worse than I thought!
Full disclosure, I actually thought that 2017 Week 1 would be about the same as say 204-1016 week one. BUt, boy HOWDY! Was I wrong about that!
Im going to ride the "Bryant, Bell, and Mcdonald need time to gel" bus and feel a little better about it now
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The comparisons to Randy Moss need to stop. He's never been close to Moss, who's arguably the most talented WR ever, nor will he ever be.
Hopefully he can regain his 2015 form.