Comes down to Coaching

[SteelerFan448]

Why did we have so much time during the review of the TD play???? I though they only had 90seconds to review......................******* nfl.

Whenever they spend longer than 90 seconds on a review they are looking for a reason to overturn a call. It's always been that case.

 

[steelhurt]

Geez,that was utter chaos. Why would DHB even be on the field and not Bryant? Have two plays called to throw the fade to Bryant. That pass play to DHB was stupid. He couldn’t even get out of bounds.
They looked unorganized and it shouldn’t have been the case. They had plenty of time to come up with play 1 and play 2 and neither should have been to throw short to DHB. Two fades with Bryant where only he gets or it sails out of bounds. Then you kick.


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[JPSteel]

We had 4 and a half minutes after the bad call on James to come up with 2 plays and the best we could do was a short pass to DHB and a fake spike and a one man route to a small, slow WR.

 

[Zack_of_Steel]

“It wasn’t a fake spike,” Roethlisberger would tell reporters afterward. “I was yelling ‘clock it’ because I felt that was the thing to do, to clock it and get yourself one play. And it came from the sideline: ‘Don’t clock it, don’t clock it.’”

This proves they had no plan in place. Through the entire "overturn" Ben was kneeling and Tomlin and Haley came up with one play and no backup plan. Ben got flushed out of the pocket and threw to DHB (why was Bryant not on the field???). Ben got up, decided to spike it, and then got told to run it. So everyone but Eli stood there and Ben forced it to a guy that was never going to get the DPI call. Seemed like Ben was calling for a fade, but who knows, nobody on the field but Eli understood that they weren't spiking it.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Cheating aside, the Pats***** are a well-coached and well-prepared team that makes very few mistakes. Steelers under Tomlin are a moderately-coached and moderately-prepared team that usually makes a lot of mistakes. It is reasonable to say that Tomlin is the second-best coach in the NFL. It is also reasonable to say that the best coach is far enough ahead of him that he's going beat him pretty much every time. I hate those cheating bastiges.

 

[GILBERT]

I think a lot of you are correct. They did not have a plan. Everyone in the stadium/on the sidelines assumed it was a TD. They probably spent the 4.5 minutes planning defense for the last 25 seconds. When it was overturned, the Steelers O was rattled and unprepared.

 

[topseed]

If Ben clocks it with 11 seconds left on the clock, and Brady/Gronk carves us up in OT, the same complainers would be screaming that we played "turtle ball" instead of going for the win with plenty of time left. There were 22 seconds on the clock when H-B was tackled. That is plenty of time to run a play. I think what happened was that the coaches expected Ben to know the time, and down, and call a play to try to get the score. I think they were stunned when they heard him call for a clock, and that's when the chaos ensued. When you have a veteran qb, you have to expect him to handle that situation, and Ben panicked. Brady would have gotten his team lined up, called a basic play, and if it failed, they would have had 4-5 seconds left.

What's ironic, is that Romo was spot on in his analysis during this sequence, despite the fact that he was consistently a disaster in these types of situations as a player.

You may be on to something there.

Trouble is, the Steelers (and Ben at the controls) have always tended to use the spike at just about every opportunity, even when it it wasn't necessary. That's why everybody should have been on the same page there on 2nd down after the review. If you believe Tomlin and his "we play to win" statement, there is no reason that the coaches should not have had a play called for Ben in the event the clock was running on 3rd down. Yes, Ben's a veteran and capable of calling a play there, but he's always been spike-happy, in my opinion, so that's what he reverted to.

 

[stuntmanmike]

I think this goes way higher than just coaching. Art jr signs the checks when he got tired of Bruce’s **** of not runnng the ball boom in comes Haley. The whole biltz berg thing has been on his watch it’s his identity within the team and he’s holding on to it like a blankie or a binkie. We haven’t been able to challenge the cheats or Brady for over a decade on any consist level. He sits there in his box watching the same **** over and over and over... Butler has shown no 8mprovement... any improvement has come from Colbert getting better and better players. Imagine billicheat with our defensive talent... nuff said...

 

[Coryea]

I think a lot of you are correct. They did not have a plan. Everyone in the stadium/on the sidelines assumed it was a TD. They probably spent the 4.5 minutes planning defense for the last 25 seconds. When it was overturned, the Steelers O was rattled and unprepared.

That's on Tomlin then, should've had two plays ready just in case, especially once the review took so long, that's a pretty good indicator it's coming back.

Like I mentioned in another post, 2005 playoffs at Indy, Troy picks Manning, should've been a pick, the team is celebrating because that's pretty much game over, Cowher goes and gets on the defense to get ready to go back on the field and play

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