View topic - GAME THREAD #4 Steelers vs. Vikings in Europe

[Ohio Profile]

I'm such a Pollyanna, but watching the Ratbirds get beat by Buffalo and seeing Cleveland up on Cincy has me thinking if we can just win this game somehow we could go into the bye week one game back of the pack and try to sort some shit out on the off week.

Make no mistake AFC North sucks this year.

Looks like the Clowns might be able to win it.

And I was starting a thread : THE CLOWNS FOR CLOWNEY...

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Phil Simms can talk all he wants about the terrific blocking on the AP run, but I counted 4 missed tackles in the first 6 yards of that run. Horrible. Plus, Mike Adams looks terrified of Jared Allen, and I don't blame him. He is completely outclassed.

that run shows the serious lack of team speed on our team as well.

I completely agree, Hammer, but what kills me is four flailing arm tackles near the LOS that end up exposing our lack of speed on the back end. A complete team failure by the d. (lowercase "d" quite intentional)

I wasn't disagreeing with your assertion.
Tackling is a problem.
I think this D has been built on bone jarring hits for the last 2 decades, and now that those kind of hits have essentially been outlawed, the lack of fundamentally sound tackling techniques is exposed.

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Steelers hanging around in this game.
We need a turn over from our defense, or big play from the special teams

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Allen burned for 51 yards after having vikes in a hole due to their penalty

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Steelers hanging around in this game.
We need a turn over from our defense, or big play from the special teams

Nevermind ---Vikings answer with td of their own. 10 point deficit again

[isfry Profile]

I'm gonna need new blood pressure medication this year. And maybe a new television after I smash this one...

Woodley is a punk. Ben looks as clueless as I have ever seen him. No, more. Cortez Allen couldn't bring down my grandma.

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Has anyone seen Jarvis Jones today?

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Well that was an all to familiar way to end a game.

[StillDodger Profile]

I have to admit, this is the first Steelers game that I can recall which I did not watch a single snap. Looking at the box score, it looks like the defense stunk up Wembley today.....

You realize if you include the preseason, this team is now 0-8? And of the 8 losses, we had a chance to win only two of them?

It's one thing to lose games, it's another to not even be competitive in order to have a chance to win them. We just lost to a team on a neutral field who couldn't even beat the Clowns on their home field.

From purely a talent standpoint, this might be the worst Steeler team since when Chuck Noll took over...... We've had deficiencies at certain positions. But Kevin Colbert's draft picks to bolster the weaknesses have been an absolute disaster. This team has gotten awful not because our coaches forgot how to coach, this team has gotten awful because our GM has been unable to improve the team, and even the positions that once were strengths have sprung leaks as well.

Some here might be screaming for Tomlin's head, but I lay the blame solely on GM Kevin Colbert.