2025 Second half Schedule

[madinsomniac]

Whelp here we are... about to start week 10 with a winning record and 2 game division lead.

Lets breakdown the potential positives and negatives of who they play down the stretch:

Wk 10- @ Chargers
- why they win:
The Chargers Oline and backfield is a totally injured mess. Alt may miss the game, they have several other key oline injuries... their D is Ok, but worse against the run than the pass
- why they lose: its a west coast game and Their pass D is utterly impotent at times... a healthy Herbert can tear them up

Wk 11- vs Bengals
- why they win: Its at home and Cinci's D is a mess. They cant be dumb enough to use the same gameplan as before
- why they lose:
Unwilling to press their D and bury them, they let them hang around and Flacco gets tge ball at the end with a chance to win it... also Cinci is coming off a bye week

Wk 12- @ Bears
- why they win: the bears have a 5-3 record right now, but really havent beaten anyone... their D gives up a tied for league worse 6.4 yards per play
- why they lose: well Ben Johnson may confuse tomlins D so badly they just quit midgame... also the Bears have the best winning percentage of all NFL teams vs the steelers at 19-8-1... we love to lose to them

Wk 13- Vs Bills
- why they win: miracles and injuries... Bills bus breaks down and they forfeit...
- why they lose: Josh Allen beats the pass rush and carves them apart... also the Bills get ten days of prep because of playing on TNF the prior week

Wk 14- @ Ravens
- why they win: Baltimores D remains pathetic, Steelers D forces a bunch of turnovers
- why they lose: defense forgets how to stop the run again... or a coaching overcorrection sinks them.. Ravens get Ten days to plan because they are playing on TNF the week before

Wk 15- vs Dolphins (Monday Night)
- why they win: the last time the Steelers lost a home game on Monday night, Chuck Noll was coaching them...
- why they lose: The Dolphins are horrible abd this would be a perfect opportunity to illogically lose to a really bad team as per Tomlin's MO

Wk 16- @ Lions
- why they win: the Offense balls out and Quinn gets too aggressive, giving us good field position.. maybe because they are playing a division game that thursday, they dont prep for the Steelers as much...
- why they lose:the Lions have the kind of offense minded Aggressive head coach that eats our D alive. Goff suddenly is great against pressure D's, and their D is a top ten unit.

Wk 17- @ Browns
- why they win: its the Browns
- why they lose: they take the Browns D for granted and look ahead to the Ravens
Wk 18- Vs Ravens
- why they win: hopefully by this point it doesnt matter... and tge ravens are already checked out for the year
- why they lose: whatever ot is, it would be annoying and stupid, I am sure

 

[Steelr4evr]

That sums up pretty much every Steelers season nowadays. They always have 2 games or so they have no buisness losing and a game or two of games they have no buisness winning. They cancel out to keep mediocrity intact.

 

[timsim00]

Good write up, I see you don't mention the Offense production, for good reason, it is down to the Defense now. While last week's win was amazing, and a flashback to play of the past, but LAC has weapons that will test our defense discipline.

Three WR's, and a decent TE, will put the heat on our secondary. I have put defensive pass interference over/under at 2.5 (JPJ might carry two of those on his own).

Herbert is the key factor, read option and scramble ability will kill our D this week.

As you mentioned, PIT going to the West coast is going to be a factor.

 

[madinsomniac]

I think its interesting that three key games, The Bengals, The first Ravens game, and the bills game all see us facing teams with 10 or more days to prepare for us...

I find it very interesting that while whom we play and where we play are mostly dictated by an equation, the controllable aspects of tge schedule havent favored us since pre covid. We all to often have key games where the other team has way too big an advantage

We have seen other teams ***** about these types of repeated discrepancies before, but we really dont ever say a thing about it. This is the second year in a row the Ravens play our first game coming off of a thursday night game with ten days to prep...

 

[timsim00]

Do we win these games if we don't win the turnover battle?

 

[KStilley]

I don’t have the attention span to check if there’s anyone else in the league that is faced with this dilemma of facing that many teams with ten day rest. Combine that with always getting early bye weeks, last years mess of all our division games bunched in the second half, toughest part of schedule in the second half of the season, the Christmas games with something like three games in like 12 days against tough opponents, things I’ve probably forgot. Ravens early season tough games then second half relief.

Like you said, allot is computer generated but it is also reviewed, it really seems the we don’t have any advocates or people willing to speak up (looking at you Art II) within the NFL hierarchy.

 

[Frosty]

Do we win these games if we don't win the turnover battle?

No

 

[Drink IRON City]

I think its interesting that three key games, The Bengals, The first Ravens game, and the bills game all see us facing teams with 10 or more days to prepare for us...

I find it very interesting that while whom we play and where we play are mostly dictated by an equation, the controllable aspects of tge schedule havent favored us since pre covid. We all to often have key games where the other team has way too big an advantage

We have seen other teams ***** about these types of repeated discrepancies before, but we really dont ever say a thing about it. This is the second year in a row the Ravens play our first game coming off of a thursday night game with ten days to prep...

If you think these discrepancies are just random coincidences, Sit down and chug a pint of white lightning. They aren’t random as the NFL commissioner has had it in for us since the CBA voting of our team being the only team to vote against it (giving hi8m to much power).

I’ve said recently in a post that our owner sits idle and just lets this **** go. No raising hella and saying NO, this can’t continue. Other teams only get an occasional anal piercing, we have so many holes we don’t know which is used more (our daily crapping or the commissioner crapping).

there is a formula used in scheduling, but there is tweaking to that formula and the Commissioner definitely takes that tweaking to a whole new twerK.




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