About a half too late
About a half too late
@ Dobbs. He looked like a doofus on that play.
why punt on this situation...Tomlin don't care!
No just Haley getting cute again for no f-ing reason. I am confident Haley would have had Wilson throw to the backup WR at the 1 as well. I am also confident that he would have kept throwing up 8 in field goal range with a few minutes left
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Terrible coaching decisions today, TERRIBLE!
Hail Mary time.
Didn't work, of course, but Dobbs did good trying to keep the play alive.
Hopefully people learned a thing or two and will play better next Thursday
Steelers drop this one.
Todd Haley is the goat.
Welp, that's it. Our first pre-season loss of the season, but I did enjoy tonight's game.
It was fun chatting with all of you again.
It. Is. PRE season.
"With love, with patience, and with Faith
....She'll make her way" ~ Natalie Merchant
I don't see the point of sticking Dobbs in there with just over 2 minutes left. Tomlin should have let Jones finish the game.
I believe this team is a year away from serious Super Bowl contention.
Assuming Ben and Bell return
More likely this team is two years away from oblivion - if the team is not contending this season it is not happening for some time
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Agreed - the end zone INT apparently is regarded to be Ju-Ju's fault for breaking off the route
Apparently that call was on Jones (assuming he did not check out of a called pass into another passing play )
The interception he threw in the end zone was more about JuJu Smith-Shuster stopping on the route than it was a bad pass by Jones.
Then again, the way Watson was running, you could just as easily put that on Jones, who checked into that play instead of just handing the ball off.
http://www.observer-reporter.com/201...GmXKx0.twitter
Jones should not have thrown the INT into double coverage in the EZ. Throw it away or where nobody else could catch it. Just another bad choice in the red zone.
And Haley should have let Watson (keep him) run it in to give the home fans a victory.
All Defense!
“I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest. If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!” - Jack Lambert
I love the city of Pittsburgh and the Steelers as much as the next guy. However sometimes this franchise frustrates me. Take a player like Cockrell. He's average at best and a lot of times the worst player on the field. He's a liability, a weak spot. Yet the team continues to trot him out on the field week after week. Do you suppose the Patriots would do the same thing? Would they even roster a player of his mediocre level? No they would replace him and replace him fast. This is why for the better part of a decade and a half NE has had our number. If you don't perform on that team you don't play. Cockrell isn't the only player they have done this with but he is the most recent example. As a devoted fan I grow extremely tired of this.
Last season, Cockrell was our best CB. Burns has passed him by most accounts, and Cockrell has had a terrible preseason. But facts being facts, we have not played our entire starting defense together this preseason. Does Cockrell need to improve his game to keep a spot on this roster? I would say so, and fast. But on that subject, Davis hasn't looked very good this preseason either. Mitchell hasn't been available and we already know the backups pretty much suck. All I'm thinking is, careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. As a group, this defense hasn't looked very good this preseason at all.