This team fooled us with the Carolina game. They are very mediocre. I think we make the playoffs still but wildcard road warriors at best.
This team fooled us with the Carolina game. They are very mediocre. I think we make the playoffs still but wildcard road warriors at best.
It's a wrap folks.
Pats next week, Saints the week after.
1. Amarius Mims, OT, Georgia 2. Zach Frazier, C, West Virginia 3. Maason Smith, DT, LSU 3. Roman Wilson, WR, Michigan 4. MJ Devonshire, CB, Pittsburgh 6. Tommy Eichenberg, ILB, Ohio State 6. Ryan Watts, S, Texas
Wait, I thought losing games was ok because there is always next week? Losing even one game is crucial in the NFL. Next year the Steelers could lose their first game and some people here will say, "It's just the first game. 15 more to go. No big deal."
Hater = Realist
Can't wait to watch "Woody Boyd on Steroids" (Gronkowski) run around uncovered for the entire game next week...
I predicted a couple weeks ago that we'd win all the hard games and lose the easy ones, with the Chargers being the "swing" game - so I am sticking to that. 2/2 so far.
See you Space Cowboy ...
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We just screwed our chances to overtake the Pats, and we probably lost the division there also, we have to beat either the Pats or the Saints, and that isn’t going to happen with our current string of ridiculous bad luck
Won't happen Butler will derive a scheme to stop him.Originally Posted by fansince'76
One of two things will happen the rest of the year.
The Steelers tank the season and miss the playoffs.
Or the team ekes out the AFC North to the playoffs, inevitably goes one and done, the organization thinks everything is okay and doesn't make any changes, resulting in the same old shit in 2019.
This squad isn't winning the Super Bowl. They just don't have the coaching or the players to get it done.
Even if this team somehow pulls a miracle and beats New England next week (they won't), they don't have the extra oomph, attitude or the coaching to get it done. Someone will come along and kick their faces in. There are too many divas and egos on this team. The 2010's Steelers will go down in history as another squad who just couldn't get it done.
1-2 to close it out. I'm more concerned about next year, the coaching has to be dealt with.
Randy Fichtner needs to go.
Keith Butler should be shown the door, but it was one year too late at this point.
Danny Smith should definitely be gone.
Mike Tomlin has to be put on notice next season.
This. 5 game losing streak with a "feel good" win against the Bengals to close the season out.
I said way back after KC lose we'd finish 5-10-1. I was close.
Throw the record out the window. When did anyone think this team was more than a Divisional Round out in the 2018 playoffs?
Safeties make ZERO plays and have not all year.
There is 1.5 competent CBs on the roster.
Defense forces no turnovers.
Offense turns it over 1-2 times per week.
They have been that team all year. Why would anything change? The players haven't changed.
Nothing this team has shown all year said legitimate SB contender. Now could they ride some breaks and a hot streak deep into the playoffs? Absolutely. But everyone acts like they didn't realize there was a lot of lipstick on the pig with the team from the jump...
My atheism was actually challenged today.
For who but a vengeful and sadistic deity could have orchestrated such masterfully impossible cruelty onto mine ass as this?
This was no random improbability in a chaotic universe; no my friends, this could only be the work of intelligent design at its most dastardly fuck up-ed-ness!
The end of days are nigh!
And if that wasn’t enough for the first-born-baby-killing bush-burning Abrahamic God of ours, the fucker is also dead set on bouncing me out of my fantasy football playoffs when I have far and away the best team in my league!
Way to go Sister Mary Cathryn Rottencrotch! You finally got me to believe!
Hell can’t be any worse than this...
KC's defense is a dumpster fire (and arguably even worse than ours) and they're 11-2. There's no reason the Steelers shouldn't be right up there with them, especially with arguably the best OL in the league.
I finally understand what Tomlin means by “unleash hell in December.”
He means unleash it on me!
KC's offense is significantly better from a schematic point of view than the Steelers are. I haven't checked, but the KC's defense also generates turnovers. That and some luck are the difference between the two teams.
I guess you are right, why not the Steelers? But I look at the roster and I don't see a sure-fire SB team. I see a team that needs a great deal to go their way to get to that point. In the last 3 weeks a great deal has not gone their way.
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Meh. It's his first year as a OC and he did well until the stretch. Like rookie players, I think rookie OCs and DCs get a little tired in their game planning. I'm okay with giving him another year.
Yes. Although I disagree. Can't blame last year on him. That defense was predicated on Shazier. This year, however, there's no such excuse.Keith Butler should be shown the door, but it was one year too late at this point.
And I'm quickly swinging to the opinion he should take Bozwell with him.Danny Smith should definitely be gone.
"Has to?" Not really. "Should be?" I'd agree with you there.Mike Tomlin has to be put on notice next season.
Somewhere I said they'd lose Denver, LAC, OAK, NO, CIN...they'll beat NE...lol. That's their Super Bowl.
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As hot and cold as they run, I can't complain too much about the offense. They've averaged 28 points per game this year with only 4 games under 25 points. If you told me before the year started that that was what our offense would do all year, I'd immediately say that if the defense does it's job we're a top bet for the Super Bowl. Special teams and Defense are utter failures. That we haven't straightened out the defensive backfield after a HALF DECADE of abysmal play is too stupid for words. At a minimum, Butler and Danny Smith need to let go.
Now all we have to look forward to is Le’Veon Bell’s 2019 revenge game when he puts up 300 all purpose yards on us on his way to winning six Super Bowls with the Jets.
So now that I understand believing in this all powerful, invisible sky wizard of yours... the only part I can’t wrap my head around is WORSHIPING the dude.
How many Super Bowls do the Patriots have to win before we decide that god isn’t necessarily what one would commonly refer to as “good”?
We lost to the Raiders for Christ’s sake! I’m just saying, we can’t rule out the possibility that the Church of Satan is onto something.
Color me agnostic for now.
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Seriously. Settle down with ripping on people's faith. This is the second post in as many minutes and threads I've read. No need to be offensive to people who have a different belief than you. We all hate the Steelers lost.
If you want to blame someone or something. Blame Canada.
8-7-1
Realistically? I figured before this game we would lose 5 in a row. I'm doing better than Meatloaf at this point.
I doubt the Bungals beat us sans Dalton and Green (or anyone, for that matter).
But it's certainly an uphill battle coming out of a three game losing streak facing the Cheats and the Saints. I don't see anyone winning in New Orleans, and while the Cheats did lose in Miami, we're in worse shape than even the Dolphins.
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anyone can beat this team and they are immune to being embarrassed.
I still don’t believe Canada exists. I haven’t gone completely crazy... but I’m getting there. 😜
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8-7-1
This is like when the flawed 1998 and 2009 (no Troy) teams fell apart
Ray Sherman got fired as OC after 1998 - special teams coach Ligashesky fired after 2009
Hard to see Butler surviving
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Yeah and I could see AJR making Joey Porter the DC.
At this point I think we might be tanking on purpose to get to that ever illusive 15th pick in the draft. If anyone has a more rational explanation, I haven’t heard it yet.
You think Nick Bosa will fall to 15? Or do we need to trade up to 14?
Couldn’t be worse.Yeah and I could see AJR making Joey Porter the DC.
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