Tim Benz: This decade of Steelers football isn’t what numbers suggest
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im not sure anyone here is disputing the fact that you need to be successful in the regular season to make the post season im not sure who you think you are arguing with.
my post, that you highlighted, certainly doesnt contradict your revolutionary concept
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coaching maybe?
It was said that regular season games/success are meaningless and that all regular season success has done is lead to the team failing in the playoffs.
If you don't win enough to get into the playoffs you can't either succeed or fail in the playoffs. So a good to really good regular season record can not nor should not just be shrugged off.
The Steelers are currently on their weakest streak of success since the 1980's.
The 80's Steelers had a 2-4 record in the playoffs. One AFC Title game appearance. With the likes of Mark Malone and Bubby Brister at Quarterback.
The 2010's Steelers have a 3-5 record in the playoffs. One AFC Title game appearance. With Ben Roethlisberger at Quarterback.
If that isn't underachievement, I don't know what is.
I prefer to miss the playoffs that severely underachieve like the killer B's era.
Even that, the steelers missed the playoffs 3 times in this decade and the team was at one play away to miss the playoffs in 2016 and was a Bills loss away in 2015 to also miss the playoffs.
More disappointing era of football for the steelers, even if sometimes they had teams worse than that.
I might be the only person who actually thought that it was an ingenious gameplan. It forced a “QB who couldn’t throw” to make perfect throws. Alas, Tebow had a “perfect” game.
The TD pass to Eddie Kennison is a case-in-point.
William Gay was in perfect position; he even got his hands between Kennison’s arms. Yet, the ball dropped at the absolute perfect angle for the TD reception... and... Kennsion caught it. A great QB makes that pass 1 out of 50 times. A HOF receiver makes that catch 1 out of 10 times. Yet, a somewhat decent WR made that catch, and if you gave Tebow 10,000 attempts, he miiiiight repeat that throw.
What gets forgotten in that game was that Ryan Clark could not play in Denver, and we lost Casey Hampton & Brett Keisel on the opening drive. Ergo, the gameplan for the safeties to both play “in the box” because exacerbated. And, Ryan Mundy simply wasn’t up to the task.
Also, in regulation, we are in (long) FG range. We were in position to kick the game-winning FG. Then, on back-to-back plays, Ben takes huge sacks... knocking us well out of FG range.
SUMMATION:
It was the perfect storm of: injuries, bad play by key Steelers, and miracle games by a few Broncos.
If the steelers would not have changed their system in defense, that would never have happened
I mean, no matter what QB you play against, you can never get vulnerable to the deep pass, especially on every play ... Tebow always struggled in his completion % regardless of the distance of his passes, so everything what the steelers had to do was not give a long gain for the few times Tebow completed a pass, but Tebow had 31.6 yards per completion
It would have been the perfect game to play the tackle the catch game since Tebow struggles a lot with the routine throw.
The only way the Broncos would score a lot of points with Tebow (20 points or more) was with the big play.
The three postseason wins weren't that great either. And get even worse when you go into context.
2015 @ Cincinnati: 18-16. The Steelers gag away a 15-0 Lead and were effectively fucked until Burfuck and Pacman had their catastropic meltdown.
2016 vs Miami: 30-12 win in the most complete playoff performance of the 2010's. Against a really crappy Dolphins Team with a -17 points differential forced to start Matt Moore at QB.
2016 @ KC: 18-16. The Steelers beat Kansas City without scoring a single touchdown.
In four of their five playoff losses, the 2010's Steelers were beaten by a touchdown or more. Even the Jags playoff loss looked better than it did due to the trademark garbage time stat padding. Ben dry heaves an early short field to the Jaguars and throws in a Fumble Six for good measure. The Steelers were never close in that game and were down 28-7 by the second quarter. Finish it off with abominable playcalling, and it was curtains.
Our percentage of wins in this decade (especially in the killer B's era) is like empty stats
Lots of win because of the talent, but outside of the christmas game in 2016 against the Ravens and maybe the game vs Denver in the regular season in 2015, not a lot of big and memorable moment in this era.
Not for me
That Steelers team already was banged up with Ben playing on one leg and was not going deep in the playoffs after the season turned with a last minute loss in November at Heinz to the Ravens (IMO the game that was the beginning of the end for Arians because the offense could not run out the clock and AJRII had seen enough with that and Ben getting pounded for another season)
As teegre has posted, during the Tebow game the injuries continued with Keisel and Hampton going out after Ryan Clark could not play at altitude due to his sickle cell condition.
The trip to New England the next week if the Steelers had won would have been a 2007 or 2013 level blowout in Foxboro. I had no interest in seeing that.
Completely meaningless stat. Only shows how bad the team underachieved.
0 super bowl victories in the last ten years
1 super bowl appearance (2010)
how many AFCCG’s since 2010? One?
thats embarrassing
if the stat was meant to make Tomlin and co look good it actually does the reverse.