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11 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:
Why not ask Kordell Stewart or Tommy Maddox how stable your fan base is
Why don't you answer my question first?
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35 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:
I guess you don't listen to how wrong they are on a weekly basis. Carrey is the worst. He trys to guess what the on field refs will call and gets it wrong a lot.
Fact is what Shazier did is illegal, period
Wednesday is the day that the NFL issues fines, so if Ryan Shazier does not receive a fine in the next 10 hours, then you are wrong.
The clock is ticking...
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4 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:
Yes, the steelers fans are really a stable bunch. Get real.
Here's where I've attended Steelers games since I became a fan...
OCT 1996: Atlanta
AUG 2001: Atlanta (pre-season)
AUG 2001: Pittsburgh (vs. Detroit, pre-season)
AUG 2003: Carolina (pre-season)
SEP 2003: Kansas City
DEC 2004: Jacksonville
AUG 2005: Carolina (pre-season)
DEC 2005: Minnesota
SEP 2006: Jacksonville
OCT 2006: Atlanta
DEC 2006: Carolina
AUG 2007: Carolina (pre-season)
NOV 2007: Pittsburgh (vs. Cleveland)
DEC 2007: St. Louis
DEC 2008: Tennessee
SEP 2009: Carolina (pre-season)
SEP 2010: Pittsburgh (vs. Atlanta)
SEP 2011: Carolina (pre-season)
AUG 2013: Carolina (pre-season)
SEP 2014: Carolina
OCT 2014: Jacksonville
NOV 2014: Tennessee
DEC 2014: Atlanta
SEP 2015: St. Louis
OCT 2015: Kansas City
That's 25 different games that I've attended in various parts of the U.S. So now what I need to know is, if Steeler fans are even half as bad as some people proclaim we are, then why was the Jacksonville game in 2004 the only time I've ever witnessed verbal abuse, let alone anything that came close to physical violence? There were plenty of us at each of these stadiums, so if we're all loose cannons, then where was the damage?
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Yeah, the Steelers sure got a lot of help when A.J. Green got away with a false start right before scoring the go-ahead TD for the Bengals:
And also when Jeremy Hill got away with taunting William Gay right after said TD:
Number of flags thrown during this sequence of events? Zero. So spare me all the tired nonesense about how the Steelers get all the calls, BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE, AND THE IMAGES ABOVE PROVE IT!
I'm tired of blue-pill football fans. Consider this post a red-pill suppository.
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10 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:
He led with the crown of his helmet, which is against the rules at any point
Take it up with those who know the rule book best.
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David DeCastro doesn't talk to the media much at all, so if he's saying he doesn't like the Bengals, or that he was spit at by one of them, then I sit up and listen. The Bengals and their fans got what they deserved. What a contemptible franchise and fan base they are. I honestly don't even give a damn what the Steelers do for the remainder of the post-season; simply eliminating the Bengals makes anything else gravy.
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On 1/12/2016 at 10:12 PM, jvan1973 said:
When does Ryan Shaziers suspension start?
The moment he becomes a repeat offender, that's when.
By the way, Mike Pereira and Mike Carey, who both know more about the rule book than you and me combined, are both on record saying that Shazier's hit was legal because Giovani Bernard took two steps and turned, becoming a runner, and no longer being a defenseless receiver. I know that's not what you (and others) want to hear, but I'm sure you'll find a way to cope.
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17 hours ago, crazycolt1 said:
Not so fast? The Steelers are a lot like Seattle. It seems lady luck always is on their side.
At QB, Ben Roethlisberger missed four games due to injury this season, and was listed as an emergency backup in a fifth. Bruce Gradkowski, ordinarily Roethlisberger's backup, suffered a season-ending injury in the pre-season, which is why the Steelers signed Michael Vick as an emergency QB. Vick started three games in Roethlisberger's absence, and he suffered an injury, which thrust Landry Jones, ordinarily the third-string QB, into the starting role for two games, plus significant action in a third. Jones was injured as well, necessitating a hobbled Roethlisberger to step back in despite being the emergency backup for a game. Roethlisberger also missed time in the Wild Card Playoff against the Bengals, necessitating Jones to step back in.
At RB, Le'Veon Bell suffered a season-ending injury eight weeks into the season, and was on the field with Roethlisberger for a whopping 39 snaps this season. DeAngelo Williams suffered a significant injury at the end of the regular season, did not play in the Wild Card Playoff against the Bengals, and is doubtful to start in the Divisional Playoff against the Broncos. Fitzgerald Toussaint is currently the starting RB, and I don't even know who the backup RB is.
On the offensive line, Maurkice Pouncey suffered a season-ending injury in the pre-season, and Kelvin Beachum suffered a season-ending injury six games into the season. At WR, Martavis Bryant was suspended for four games to start the season, and missed a fifth due to an injury in practice. Antonio Brown is currently in the NFL's concussion protocol, and is doubtful to start in the Divisional Playoff against the Broncos. Even Heath Miller missed a game at TE.
On defense, Stephon Tuitt and Ryan Shazier both missed multiple games to injuries this season. On special teams, Shaun Suisham suffered a season-ending injury in the pre-season, and Garrett Hartley, Suisham's replacement, did as well. Then came Josh Scobee in a trade from the Jaguars, who promptly lost his sh_t and missed more FG attempts than he made. Chris Boswell, their current PK, is the fourth one they've signed to a contract this season alone.
In summary, every star player the Steelers have on offense has missed significant playing time to injuries, and only three of their 11 starters on offense played all 16 games during the regular season. (And one of those three was just injured in the Wild Card Playoff against the Bengals.) Furthermore, two of the four best players on their defense have missed significant time as well. Combine all this with a .529 strength of schedule, which is the hardest of all playoff teams in the AFC, and it's a minor miracle that the Steelers finished 10-6 and made the playoffs in the first place. So if this is what it's like for a team to have luck on its side, then I'd hate to see what happens to a team that doesn't have luck on its side.
And if you want to complain about the officiating, here's A.J. Green false-starting right before catching the go-ahead TD for the Bengals:
No flag.
And here's Jeremy Hill taunting William Gay after said TD:
No flag.
So much for the Steelers getting all the calls. Anybody who thinks they did is a damn *, and I'm being polite.
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So anyway, here's a reading assignment...
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That defense hasn't been good at all this year
The Steelers have allowed only 20.2 points per game this season, and it took nine games for a team to score 30 against them. There's a reason why the Steelers are 5-4 despite having their offense annihilated by injuries.
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Rex Ryan is like Dick LeBeau and Wade Phillips: Great defensive coordinators, terrible head coaches.
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Cincy is a great case study...
What is it about them during the regular season and then the playoffs.
Its not all the QB and the coach..but they get the blame
I'm actually starting to believe that Andy Dalton is underrated, and A.J. Green is overrated. I'm not saying that Dalton is a great QB, but he is a good QB, and I've seen him put up gaudy statistics in some of his wins. As for A.J. Green, I've seen him get lazy with routes and blocking before, and sometimes they've led directly to disaster for the Bengals, and for Dalton as well. A.J. Green has all the physical tools, but his motivation seems to be inconsistent, so I'm not quite as high on him as most people are.
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I think the chiefs can make some noise.
The Chiefs are just the Browns with a better QB. Unfortunately for the Chiefs, it doesn't take much to be better than any of the Browns' QBs, and Alex Smith is very average, unable to carry his team for more than a random game or two. The Chiefs have a solid defense, but not good enough to hide the fact that they only have two players on offense who are above average (Jamaal Charles, Travis Kelce). There's simply not enough play-making ability on offense for them to be anything more than an also-ran.
If you need to find a game that's a perfect embodiment of the Chiefs, it'd be their elimination-scenario game against the Steelers late last season. The winner clinched a playoff berth. The loser was not mathematically eliminated, but realistically eliminated nonetheless. The Chiefs defense actually limited the Steelers to 20 points, which was an impressive showing, but their offense never found the end zone, and only scored 12 points. Game over, season effectively over.
Even this season, the Chiefs didn't find the end zone against the Bengals yesterday, settling for seven FGs. They need a better QB, a better offensive line, and at least one more play-maker at the skill positions. Until then, they're going to dwell forever in that no-man's land between 8-8 and 10-6 (11-5 if they're lucky, 7-9 if they're unlucky).
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I think the Cowboys still win this whack division even without Romo. Their Super Bowl aspirations took a huge hit today though.
Sorry...wrong thread. Lol
The NFC East is the most overrated division in the NFL, and I've been saying this for years. The only reason they get so much hype is because all four teams are located in top-10 media markets. The smallest is Washington DC, which is the 9th-largest.
The Cowboys are a perpetual soap opera. The Redskins are pathetic. The Eagles are a science experiment that's about to blow up in somebody's face. The Giants are boring. I don't give a damn about any of them. They need to cover the North and South divisions in each conference more.
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besides his end zone blunder, I thought dhb had a good game
Roethlisberger spent a lot of extra time with Darrius Heyward-Bey in the off-season to get him more involved in the passing game, and it showed the other night. That gaffe in the end zone was costly, though, because it took four points off the board. The Steelers had to settle for a FG on that drive.
If not for that and the two missed FG attempts, the score would have been 14-13 at halftime, instead of 14-3. In fact, those three screw-ups and the forced fumble that the Steelers defense failed to recover by the goal line effectively produced a 17-point swing in a game the Steelers lost by seven.
I'm getting a bit annoyed with how sloppy the Steelers look every September. Since 2011, the Steelers are 12-4 in October, 9-7 in November, and 13-5 in December/January (regular season only), but 5-10 in September. Even if you factor out their 0-4 debacle in 2013, they're still a mediocre 5-6 in September.
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how is it that the patriots had two rookie olinemen start along with a backup center and brady still got his 10 second pocket?
Poor performance by the Steelers defensive line. All the Pittsburgh sportswriters I've seen have put the defensive line on the "losers" list with Josh Scobee and Darrius Heyward-Bey. It was an awfully disappointing performance by them. The secondary looked lost, but the defensive line was simply beaten physically. I'm becoming skeptical that Steve McLendon should play NT; I think he'd be better off as a DE.
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I've said several times before now that Ben won't carry them forever. Unless tonight was 1 of those things that's exclusive to week 1 (which is possible), this is a 6-10 team.
He hasn't stepped into a single throw. Even the Wheaton sideline pass was all arm, and as strong of an arm as that took, it should have been intercepted. And a limp off...
He had his left ankle rolled up on early in the game. That probably explains what you saw. The good news is, there's been no chatter about it since, so it's probably just a minor sprain. They hurt regardless, though.
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Ya that was an absolutely horribly insane decision by our coaching staff to move Toler to the opposite side of the field. He looked totally lost.
Of course Fat Ben had our number when our #1 CB goes out, and we move #2 to somewhere he never plays and then have our #4 CB come in.
And Werner is Werner.
Honestly, that just sounds like excuse-making. If it's so easy to throw for 500 yards in a game, then why has it only ever been done 16 times in NFL history? And why is Roethlisberger the only one ever to do it more than once? Hell, Warren Moon was the only other QB to defeat a playoff team in his 500-yard game, and Roethlisberger defeated playoff teams in both of his. Y.A. Tittle is the only other QB to throw at least six TD passes in his 500-yard game. For that matter, Tittle and Moon are the only other QBs not to turn the ball over in their 500-yard games, and Roethlisberger didn't turn the ball over in either of his.
I'm sorry that the Colts lost Vontae Davis that game, but * happens sometimes. Back in 2007, the Steelers were down Troy Polamalu and Ryan Clark when they played the juggernaut Patriots, and they lost Aaron Smith early in the game to boot, but even then, Tom Brady threw for "only" 399 yards and four TDs that game despite facing a defense missing three key players. Ultimately, I don't think Vontae Davis's absence made a whole lot of difference in the game last season because Roethlisberger threw more TD passes than uncatchable passes that game. (The WRs dropped some of his passes, including Martavis Bryant dropping one with nobody between him and the end zone that could have gotten Roethlisberger a seventh TD pass and the single-game passing yards record.)
And I'm not trying to rub that game in, but it does seem like a slap in the face that people either ignore or try to qualify what Roethlisberger did, and not just Colts fans either. If it were Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck, etc. who did what Roethlisberger did, football fans and the media would have kissed their * for the remainder of the season. Instead, it just seems to be forgotten by most people who aren't fans of the Steelers or Colts. It's the same way Super Bowl XL is somehow the only playoff game of his that matters even though he played great in the AFC bracket that post-season, and also played a critical role in winning Super Bowl XLIII, for that matter. It's like saying the view of the forest is ugly because of a dead tree. Stuff like this is why I believe Roethlisberger has been underrated for his entire career.
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Luck carries his team on his back and is a better QB than Ben.
Ben carries women to the bathroom, and had a great defense and RB to hand off to.
Pardon me for bumping an old topic, but you're aware that the Steelers had only 58 rushing yards and 2.2 YPC in Super Bowl XLIII, right? In fact, the Steelers ranked in the bottom 10 in rushing yards and the bottom five in YPC during the 2008 season. If that's supposed to be a great running game, then I'd hate to see what a mediocre running game looks like.
As for the defense, awesome; that's about all Roethlisberger had for half a decade. His offensive line sucked until about a season and a half ago. And after Willie Parker broke his ankle in 2007, the Steelers didn't have another worthwhile RB until they drafted Le'Veon Bell. Rashard Mendenhall doesn't count either; there's a reason why the Steelers told him to get lost, and why only one team offered him a contract afterward. And the WRs as a whole were overrated too, considering a) Santonio Holmes and Mike Wallace don't have a single 1,000-yard receiving season without Roethlisberger throwing them the ball, and b) Hines Ward was past his prime by the time Antonio Brown arrived. So yeah, thank God for the defense. Without it, Roethlisberger would have had almost nothing. The reason why the Steelers had back-to-back 8-8 seasons is because the offense had to be blown up and rebuilt, and the defense declined before the rebuilt offense came together.
As for Andrew Luck, no, he's not better than Roethlisberger until he learns how to take care of the ball better. He had 16 INTs last season, which is essentially an INT per game, and he had 13 fumbles, which is more than any other QB in the NFL. That's 29 breaches in ball security last season, which is too damn many for an "elite" QB. That's almost two per game. If Roethlisberger lost the ball at that rate, he'd be crucified upside-down. Luck's eight extra TD passes last season are wiped out by his seven extra INTs and four extra fumbles. I'm sure Luck will be great in the future, but people need to pump the brakes until he's not so careless with the ball.
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I assume this is 2014? He looks great, but even a Steelers fan has got to admit that at times in the past he's shown up for camp looking a little too much like Seth Rogen!
Besides, I didn't mean to imply that I think he's a bad QB or anything... quite the contrary. My critical comments were strictly superficial. ;)
The only season in which Roethlisberger showed up to training camp with some softness was 2009, and we criticized him for it, but he was still the best player on the team that season anyway. Unfortunately, the defense decided to only play three quarters that season, allowing 135 points in the fourth quarter (third-worst in the NFL) and blowing five fourth-quarter leads (worst in the NFL), and the kickoff coverage unit allowed four TDs (worst in the NFL), so the Steelers ultimately finished that season 9-7 and out of the playoffs, wasting an excellent season by Roethlisberger in the process (4,328 passing yards, 66.6% completion, 8.6 YPA, 26 TD, 12 INT, 100.5 rating).
Other than that season, he's been fine. Yeah, he has a double chin, but some people do despite being in shape. Hell, look at that picture again and you'll see that he still has it despite being lean and mean.
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Getting on a team with the best defense in the league doesn't hurt.
Because the best defenses also run the ball, catch passes and block for the QB. Wait a minute...
For years, that defense was virtually all the help that Roethlisberger had. Without it, Heath Miller and Maurkice Pouncey were all he had left, and he didn't even have Pouncey in 2008 or 2009. And I don't want to hear about how great his WRs supposedly were; Hines Ward was exiting his prime as Roethlisberger was entering his. And what have Santonio Holmes and Mike Wallace done without Roethlisberger throwing them the ball, aside from starting a dumpster fire in the Jets locker room (Holmes), or appearing at or near the top of the list of the worst free agent acquisitions in 2013 (Wallace)? For that matter, did anybody think Jerricho Cotchery would be on the short list of WRs with 10+ TD catches last season? I like Cotchery, but he's not catching 10 TDs from Cam Newton this season. Quite frankly, there's been no position on the Steelers more overrated than WR in the last six years, even despite the (recent) emergence of Antonio Brown.
The offensive line was laughably bad for years. Four of the five starting offensive linemen for the Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII are now out of the NFL, and none of them on their own terms either. In fact, the entire starting interior offensive line was out of the league within three years of that Super Bowl. It gets even better; the Steelers had the most penalized offensive line in the NFL in 2010, and they had more starting offensive line permutations than any other team in the NFL in 2011 and 2012. Of the 11 offensive linemen to start at least 10 games for the Steelers between 2008 and 2012, only two of them are still with the team today. Of the nine who are no longer with the Steelers, five of them flunked out of the NFL, and only one of the remaining four is even good enough to start for another team.
Of the eight RBs to carry the ball for the Steelers between 2008 and 2012, none of them are with the team anymore, and only one of them is still in the NFL, as a backup to boot. Only one of the other seven RBs even made it to his 30th birthday in a football uniform. And I'll forever have a special place in my sigmoid colon for Rashard Mendenhall, hands-down the worst first-round draft pick of the Kevin Colbert era (2000-present). After the Steelers told him to get lost, the Cardinals were the only team to even offer him a contract, and it was a one-year contract. Then after the Cardinals decided to move on from him, he "retired" so he didn't have to find out that nobody wanted him. His most memorable play in the NFL is a fumble. That's all anybody needs to know about his career.
And I don't even need to talk about Bruce Arians since you all saw how his play-calling got Andrew Luck annihilated. Multiply that by five to get an idea of what Roethlisberger dealt with. It's no coincidence that the two lowest sack percentages of Roethlisberger's career are the two seasons after the Steelers told Arians to get lost; it's no coincidence that Roethlisberger had his most TD passes since 2007 last season after the talent on the rest of the offense improved to average, and it's no coincidence that the Steelers averaged 27.9 points per game in the second half of last season after the coaches gave him more control of the offense. Furthermore, the fact that the Steelers won six of their last eight and eight of their last 12 despite the defense unraveling ought to indicate that Roethlisberger doesn't necessarily need a dominant defense to succeed. Just give him the keys to the offense and some halfway-decent weapons, and enjoy the show.
His TD/INT ratio over the last two seasons is 54/22 despite missing three games in 2012, and having to learn a whole new system of offense amid massive roster turnover. For that matter, he's the only QB in the NFL to be a full-time starter both seasons and not throw a single red-zone INT in either. And whatever scoring problem the Steelers have had the last two seasons has nothing to do with the passing game; they rank 9th in TD passes over the last two seasons, but 31st in non-passing TDs (running game, defense, special teams). Only the Jaguars have scored fewer non-passing TDs in that period of time, and they're averaging a 3-13 record in that period of time instead of 8-8 like the Steelers.
Yeah, I went off on a massive tangent, but I'm sick and tired of always hearing about how awesome the Steelers defense was without any consideration whatsoever for the giant clusterf___ of an offense that Roethlisberger had to deal with for years, and I hope that I was able to illustrate just how bad it really was. As for the primary topic of discussion, Roethlisberger spent the first part of this past off-season working on routes and timing with his young WRs out in California. If that's not leadership or a good work ethic, then what is? And it's a good thing that Peyton Manning is such a good leader, because Emmanuel Sanders needs to be led. Last season he killed more than one drive with dropped passes, including two TDs, and he directly contributed to a loss by dropping a game-tying two-point conversion attempt that hit him square in the hands late in the fourth quarter against the Ravens last Thanksgiving.
Good luck, Emmanuel. You'll need it.
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Ouch, bad PR move by Sanders. Besides, did anyone NOT know that already? Manning has a well-known and well-documented work ethic, while Big Ben usually shows up looking like he's been on the scotch and bologna diet during the off-season.
Yeah, totally out of shape.
Wait a minute...
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Tell that to Oj Simpson
I'm not sure what you're getting at. O.J. Simpson went on trial for murder and was acquitted, then later on was sued for wrongful death and found guilty based on a preponderance of the evidence. The threshold is lower in civil court than it is in criminal court. Today he's in jail for robbery.
Ben Roethlisberger has never even been indicted for a crime, let alone convicted. The DA in charge of the investigation in Georgia said they had no probable cause for arrest, and coworkers of the plaintiff in the Nevada civil case were ready to testify against her.
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LOLOL!!! Yeah fail. The big Tune hyped up Tony Romo too. How'd that work out?
Oh please, this isn't an episode of law & order. Go find your own links. Everyone knows your boy had a dumbed down playbook his rookie year and is generally about as bright as Gary Busey. He called Haley's playbook the Rosetta stone and then admitted to calling Arians plays during games instead. heck in 2010 his teammates didn't even elect him as captain.
Take away the ground game and defense and you get exactly what the Steelers had last year: a spot on the couch come playoff time.
Your boy is a brick. Get over it.
Speaking of bricks, anybody who thinks that the Steelers have had a good running game at any time in the last five years is a brick. They haven't finished in the top 10 in rushing yards or YPC since 2007.
Just because you have a blog doesn't mean you have credibility.
Bengals' Vontaze Burfict suspended 3 games
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There was no flag; there is no fine, and there will be no suspension. Like it or not, the NFL considers the play to be legal. Like it or not, the better team won last Saturday night.