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The why is pretty simple

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If you liken these teams to fighters, particularly MMA fighters it's like this. The Pats may not look that flashy but they are proficient if not very good in all areas. This allows them to defend your greatest strength and attack your greatest weakness. While losing Bell was huge it is hard to picture him having a huge day. They were full committed to stop him and it didn't appear the Steelers were going to pass to run.
The Steelers on the other hand are the classic we gotta be us fighter. They couldn't come out and do what was necessary to make Brady uncomfortable and get him off his spot which was play man and bring pressure. That wasn't them and therefore was off the table.
 
Stoney said:
What? Thats a lot of words.

Simple: One coach was playing chess, and the other coach was Mike Tomlin.
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One coach was playing Chess and the other was working on finger painting.
 
I tried to come up with an MMA analogy. Steelers have a little more talent, but a lot less game plan and execution. That never ends well. You can hang in that kind of fight if you have a ton more heart and one punch knock out power, but we didn't even have that.
 
Listening to the pregame and from what I believed, they were going to commit to stop Bell. They did. The counter too that was to spread them out. The Steelers didn't do that.
 
"We gotta be us" works OK against coaching/QB tandems like Gase/Moore and Reid/Smith, or when you have so much more talent than the other team, it doesn't matter. Against Belichick/Brady and the Patriots? Not so much.

You've got to come up with a different gameplan, take some risks, and go outside your comfort zone to try and beat them. If not, you get exactly what happened tonight.
 
SteelerSask said:
Listening to the pregame and from what I believed, they were going to commit to stop Bell. They did. The counter too that was to spread them out. The Steelers didn't do that.
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That's exactly what the offense did, guys kept dropping the ******* ball. Coates drops that big pass that puts us at the 30 at least, we went right down the field for a td on the next drive. Then we started dropping passes, including two tds, another Td called back on penalty because the guy can't stay in bounds.
 
They took a shot on the third down to Coates. I wouldn't say spreading them out was the gameplan. They eventually did when Bell was injured.
 
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