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Forgotten foes of the Steelers

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I might be remembering it wrong but... It seems to me Don Beebe would probably be in the HOF and own every single receiving record there is if he got to play the Steelers every week. Completely average WR but always burned Pitt for some reason.
Hated that ******. Good pull.
 
Jon Kitna and Kelly Holcomb used to carve our defense up.
 
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1990's was Jags no doubt. Especially when they signed Lake
 
I might be remembering it wrong but... It seems to me Don Beebe would probably be in the HOF and own every single receiving record there is if he got to play the Steelers every week. Completely average WR but always burned Pitt for some reason.

Well one of our DBs knocked him into next week during a game. So he got his.
 
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1990's was Jags no doubt. Especially when they signed Lake

I completely loathed the Jags back then, as they were in our div. and were the better team in just a few years of existing. That late 90's club was pretty damn good, on O and D.

They had Brunell, James Stewart, Fred Taylor, Jimmy Smith, Keenan McCardell, Tony Boselli, Kevin Hardy, Bryce Paup, Wynn, Lake, Brackens, Donovin Darius, Kyle Brady (overrated but huge and not bad), Mike Logan, Leon Searcy (Yes, that Leon Searcy, who we got a total of one year out of before he left as a free agent; way to go Cowher), and others. That 1999 team lost to only ONE TEAM all year, but it happened to be TN twice in the regular season and then in the playoffs. This team beat the Fins 62-7 in the playoffs. That is one bad *** beating.

The irony is I got hired and moved by a company in North East FL which is Jags territory. I now __slightly__ root for them, as I don't want the area to lose it's NFL team. Before the NFL came here, I couldn't point out J-Ville on a map. I actually thought the Gators and Jags played in same town (they do once a year, for the UF-GA game). And, oh, how I despised Tom Coughlin back in those days. It turns out, he's a good dude, used to live in my same town and shop at the same stores I do.
 
Well one of our DBs knocked him into next week during a game. So he got his.

Remember how he got knocked into the air and landed square on his head in the playoff game vs. Browns? I was shocked he got up after that shot.
 
Anyone remember the game where Tony Banks completed a total of like 6 passes for 240 yards and beat the Steelers.

Something about ****** QBs vs. the Steelers.
 
Going back to my childhood as well...also in the 70's...Quarterbacks float to the top of the list, kinda like a high fiber crap. Anyway, all of the old AFC Central QB...Kenny Anderson, Brian Sipe and Dan Pastorini. Then Ken Stabler, Dave Casper and Fred Bilitnikoff. Pretty much the entire Raiders team. Roger Staubach, Ed TT Jones, Robert Newhouse, Pretty much the entire Cowboys team. Ozzie Newsome...oh geez...this list could go on for days.
 
Quadry Ismail and Josh Cribbs gave us fits

Cribbs. Good one. There were games that all the Browns had was Cribbs, and he seemed to keep them in the game all by himself. He killed us.
 
I completely loathed the Jags back then, as they were in our div. and were the better team in just a few years of existing. That late 90's club was pretty damn good, on O and D.

They had Brunell, James Stewart, Fred Taylor, Jimmy Smith, Keenan McCardell, Tony Boselli, Kevin Hardy, Bryce Paup, Wynn, Lake, Brackens, Donovin Darius, Kyle Brady (overrated but huge and not bad), Mike Logan, Leon Searcy (Yes, that Leon Searcy, who we got a total of one year out of before he left as a free agent; way to go Cowher), and others. That 1999 team lost to only ONE TEAM all year, but it happened to be TN twice in the regular season and then in the playoffs. This team beat the Fins 62-7 in the playoffs. That is one bad *** beating.

The irony is I got hired and moved by a company in North East FL which is Jags territory. I now __slightly__ root for them, as I don't want the area to lose it's NFL team. Before the NFL came here, I couldn't point out J-Ville on a map. I actually thought the Gators and Jags played in same town (they do once a year, for the UF-GA game). And, oh, how I despised Tom Coughlin back in those days. It turns out, he's a good dude, used to live in my same town and shop at the same stores I do.

Searcy started in '93, '94 and on the '95 Super Bowl team, and was a damn good player for them. What the hell are you talking about? Jacksonville didn't sign a one year wonder when they got him.
 
Maybe I missed it and he was mentioned, but Kenny Anderson used to give the great Steeler D of the '70s some fits. They solved that problem by knocking him around pretty good in many of those games.

I was in my early teens in 1977 when the Steelers went out to Cincy late in the year and played them in the freezing cold. Anderson threw a TD late to a white receiver that also punted for them, dammit, I can't remember his name. Stuff doesn't stay in this head the way it used to. It was close enough to Christmas that my parents had gotten the tree. I had a bit of an explosion, stomping around and stuff and that ****** tree went over. She had these long pointy type ornaments, and to this day I can still see them on the floor with the tree on top. I almost didn't survive that one.

It was McNally, I think.
 
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Anyone remember the game where Tony Banks completed a total of like 6 passes for 240 yards and beat the Steelers.

Something about ****** QBs vs. the Steelers.

Definitely. Tim Tebow and his 10 completions for 340 yards. A ******* 34 yard completion average.
 
Definitely. Tim Tebow and his 10 completions for 340 yards. A ******* 34 yard completion average.

The way that secondary was playing you and I might of had 300. All he had to do was throw it out there enough for guys to run under it. I still think they got themselves all flustered by his running ability it effected the way they did everything. He didn't even end up running that much in the game, did he?
 
Definitely. Tim Tebow and his 10 completions for 340 yards. A ******* 34 yard completion average.

Because Tomlin and/or LeBeau came up with the worst D gameplan in world history AND stayed with it all game long, no matter how obviously failed the game plan was.
 
Maybe I missed it and he was mentioned, but Kenny Anderson used to give the great Steeler D of the '70s some fits. They solved that problem by knocking him around pretty good in many of those games.

I was in my early teens in 1977 when the Steelers went out to Cincy late in the year and played them in the freezing cold. Anderson threw a TD late to a white receiver that also punted for them, dammit, I can't remember his name. Stuff doesn't stay in this head the way it used to. It was close enough to Christmas that my parents had gotten the tree. I had a bit of an explosion, stomping around and stuff and that ****** tree went over. She had these long pointy type ornaments, and to this day I can still see them on the floor with the tree on top. I almost didn't survive that one.

It was McNally, I think.

Casper? Lol...I know Raiders. The only white receiver from cincy I know is that douche nozzle that works for nbc. Dont even care to remember his name
 
Searcy started in '93, '94 and on the '95 Super Bowl team, and was a damn good player for them. What the hell are you talking about? Jacksonville didn't sign a one year wonder when they got him.

Jacksonville also got him in the expansion draft if I remember correctly..
 
Jacksonville also got him in the expansion draft if I remember correctly..

No, he was definitely a UFA pickup by the Jags. Their first year was '95. Searcy played on the '95 Steeler team.
 
Casper? Lol...I know Raiders. The only white receiver from cincy I know is that douche nozzle that works for nbc. Dont even care to remember his name

His name was Pat McInally. He was a white WR for the Bengals and he also punted. He was their 3rd WR, because they had Issac Curtis and Billy Brooks. Brooks went off in that game, too, but it was McInally who caught the TD to win it. Brooks could have been a good one, but got hurt if I remember correctly and never was the same.

McInally was a hell of a punter, BTW.
 
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Cribbs. Good one. There were games that all the Browns had was Cribbs, and he seemed to keep them in the game all by himself. He killed us.

That KR TD he had against us in 2007 is still one of, if not thee most incredible sideline balancing act I've ever seen in all my years of watching the sport
 
No, he was definitely a UFA pickup by the Jags. Their first year was '95. Searcy played on the '95 Steeler team.

Yeah you're right. After I thought about it more I realized I was wrong.
 
Searcy started in '93, '94 and on the '95 Super Bowl team, and was a damn good player for them. What the hell are you talking about? Jacksonville didn't sign a one year wonder when they got him.

You are right, he did start 3 years, it just felt like we didn't get that many years from him. My bad.
 
steve mcnair. that guy always found a way to beat us.

The classic McNair play would see him flushed out of the pocket, and then run towards the sideline just fast enough not to get caught, and then, just before going out of bounds, fire a strike to some receiver 30 yards down field. Would have you ready to throw a brick through the tv. I remember a game where he didn't start because he was injured. Neil was stinking up the joint, and the Steelers had the game in the bag. Then, some Steeler defender thought it would be a good idea to light Neil up. In comes McNair, who preceded to carve us up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
 
Jon Kitna always played the Steelers tough. Speaking of the Jags. Jack Del Rio's team from 2007 was another one

Did Kitna even ever beat Pgh?

JDR's team was good enough to beat a worn out Steelers; remember Cool Shades 1st year and he had them "worn down to the nub" according to him and the players.

That Jags team was decent, but no where near as good as the late 90's club.
 
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