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    Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Mine is when they line up mano et mano on 4th and one and get stuffed, over and over, like they just did.

    Why not spread out the D?

    Flat out stupid IMO.
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    A screen on 3rd down and long

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    The WR screen. I've had it with it.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Bombs always falling incomplete on 3rd and inches.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Empty backfield inside of the 10.
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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Third and 3. One receiver, one running back. Wonder what's coming here. 9 men in the box. Fuck it, let's just run the play as-is and get the punt team ready.
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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    The complete absence of QB sneaks when it would clearly get a 1st down/TD. Baffling. I realize Ben may not like them. Suck it up.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Harrison dropping back into coverage
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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by smokin3000gt View Post
    Harrison dropping back into coverage
    Except when it nets a 100 yard int return for a TD in the SB.


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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Goaline: trying to smash it in straight ahead.

    The Steelers' O-line is not great at straight-ahead/smashmouth... whereas, they are extremely athletic & mobile. Pull Pouncey and/or DD, and allow Bell to choose a hole (which he excels at) from the stretched out D-line.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    When a play fails and the forums light up with, 'they should have ran (insert other play)'. DURING A PRESEASON GAME.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Ben consistently running the play clock down to somewhere between 2 and zero seconds before the ball is snapped

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    Quote Originally Posted by AtlantaDan View Post
    Ben consistently running the play clock down to somewhere between 2 and zero seconds before the ball is snapped

    I think it's the coaching staff who asks it.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by AtlantaDan View Post
    Ben consistently running the play clock down to somewhere between 2 and zero seconds before the ball is snapped
    Why would that be bad? It bleeds time. Rarely if ever does Ben not get it off in time. Honestly curious why that would bother anyone?

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mojouw View Post
    Why would that be bad? It bleeds time. Rarely if ever does Ben not get it off in time. Honestly curious why that would bother anyone?
    The way I see it, you lose the element of surprise as to when the ball will be snapped.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mojouw View Post
    Why would that be bad? It bleeds time. Rarely if ever does Ben not get it off in time. Honestly curious why that would bother anyone?
    Mostly it just aggravates me, which is the definition of pet peeve (something that a particular person finds especially annoying)

    But look at other QBs in the league such as Brady and Rodgers mix it up - running the clock to zero allows the defense to tee off by making it easier to time the snap and allows the defense a little more time to catch its breath - even when the Steelers go no huddle it typically is not hurry up - it is not as if Ben cannot do it (lightning drives at end of 2016 Dallas and Ravens games)

    As you note, going to the other extreme and always snapping the ball ASAP has its downside (Falcons consistently getting the snap off with 10-15 seconds on the play clock in the second half of the Super Bowl collapse when they should have been milking clock) - one method of keeping the other side on its heels is by not falling into predictable patterns

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by AtlantaDan View Post
    Mostly it just aggravates me, which is the definition of pet peeve (something that a particular person finds especially annoying)

    But look at other QBs in the league such as Brady and Rodgers mix it up - running the clock to zero allows the defense to tee off by making it easier to time the snap and allows the defense a little more time to catch its breath - even when the Steelers go no huddle it typically is not hurry up - it is not as if Ben cannot do it (lightning drives at end of 2016 Dallas and Ravens games)

    As you note, going to the other extreme and always snapping the ball ASAP has its downside (Falcons consistently getting the snap off with 10-15 seconds on the play clock in the second half of the Super Bowl collapse when they should have been milking clock) - one method of keeping the other side on its heels is by not falling into predictable patterns
    Seems like it happened under Arians as well.



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    Quote Originally Posted by tube517 View Post
    Seems like it happened under Arians as well.
    Since I blame Arians for everything including global warming and the sinking of the Titanic I will be glad to go with this being another bad habit Ben learned from BA

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    The steelers are a bit faster in the last 2 years that before, since at that time Tomlin giving a little too much importance to the time of possession.

    But I would still like the steelers to be even faster, but at least it's not like 2011, when the steelers were the slowest team.


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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mojouw View Post
    Why would that be bad? It bleeds time. Rarely if ever does Ben not get it off in time. Honestly curious why that would bother anyone?
    Basically it's the same thing as using "hut, hut, hike!" for your snap count. "Ok defense, get ready - we're about to snap the ball!" I mean, 8-year-olds can take advantage of that.
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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Another pet peeve I see too often, empty 5 WR shotgun on obvious run plays. If you are going to pass, at least put in an element of surprise instead of telegraphing you will pass. That's just a complete lack of imagination

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Another one....A trick play on offense,like the one against the pats in week 1 in 2015 of the first quarter.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by teegre View Post
    Goaline: trying to smash it in straight ahead.

    The Steelers' O-line is not great at straight-ahead/smashmouth... whereas, they are extremely athletic & mobile. Pull Pouncey and/or DD, and allow Bell to choose a hole (which he excels at) from the stretched out D-line.
    See, this is where individual philosophy comes into play. I personally hate a slow developing counter or pull on the goal line, when a defender can shoot a gap or come off the edge to get in the backfield. Pulling DeCastro and a TE to the left from the 1.5 yard line and a defender gets Bell in the backfield annoys me.

    I'd rather see Hubbard and Johnson in and a wham block inside and give it to #26 straight ahead. He can still pick a gap if he doesn't see the intended hole open, but the idea of giving the ball to a RB on short yardage where his shoulders are not parallel to the LOS is risky to me.

    Even from that formation you can go play action to Johnson, Villanueva or have AB or Bryant single coverage on the outside.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by DesertSteel View Post
    The complete absence of QB sneaks when it would clearly get a 1st down/TD. Baffling. I realize Ben may not like them. Suck it up.
    I've gotta agree with this one. There are a few other's I have, but I do get tired of seeing 2nd and inches or 3rd and inches and you know Ben could fall forward for the TD, but instead they try a pass or run around the side- sometimes losing yards. But, then again, I don't want to see Ben get injured.
    I guess another one I have would be a running play called on 3rd and long when the running plays have been stuffed all day long.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    It's really going to bug me when we throw up that 60th point on the board, when our defense hasn't even given up a 1st down all game. I mean once this season would be ok, but EVERY game? C'mon, have some compassion.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by El-Gonzo Jackson View Post
    See, this is where individual philosophy comes into play. I personally hate a slow developing counter or pull on the goal line, when a defender can shoot a gap or come off the edge to get in the backfield. Pulling DeCastro and a TE to the left from the 1.5 yard line and a defender gets Bell in the backfield annoys me.

    I'd rather see Hubbard and Johnson in and a wham block inside and give it to #26 straight ahead. He can still pick a gap if he doesn't see the intended hole open, but the idea of giving the ball to a RB on short yardage where his shoulders are not parallel to the LOS is risky to me.

    Even from that formation you can go play action to Johnson, Villanueva or have AB or Bryant single coverage on the outside.
    I hear you.

    That said, the RB can still go straight ahead (e.g. to the right between DD & Gilbert) while Pouncey pulls to the left (taking the opposing team's MLB with him).

    Make sense?

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by DesertSteel View Post
    The complete absence of QB sneaks when it would clearly get a 1st down/TD. Baffling. I realize Ben may not like them. Suck it up.
    YES.

    If I am not mistaken, Ben has had good success on the sneaks.

    So this is almost always my first choice on 4th and 1 or the goal line.
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    Shotgun draw in any situation...never works.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by DesertSteel View Post
    The complete absence of QB sneaks when it would clearly get a 1st down/TD. Baffling. I realize Ben may not like them. Suck it up.
    That's a great one...that actually may be my number one. It's not like Ben is a little guy either...lol.

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    Re: Your Biggest Steelers Play Calling Pet Peeve?

    Quote Originally Posted by lipps83 View Post
    Bombs always falling incomplete on 3rd and inches.
    I don't mind that one so much because that's Ben seeing something in coverage that most of the time is there, just some of it, the receivers have broken fingers or are suspended or just not talented enough to make the catch...but the call was right. Just poorly executed.

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