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Game Balls, Game Goats & FU's........@ Lions

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Nice to finally get a win going into the BYE week! We really need to get healthy and I hope Marcus Gilbert can come back healthy after the BYE week because our running game needs his presence. Our Defense certainly bent many times tonight but never broke. Thanks to Javon Hargrave on our three goal line stands vs Lions and they only came away with 3 points on those three drives. Hargrave was a man among boys tonight! His play stood out more than anyone else on that Defense! Gotta get this kid more play time! He's really shown he can collapse the pocket whenever he's in there. Tomlin needs to toss out that two down linemen approach on third down when they take Hargrave out. He needs to be in there he's so disruptive when he is.

Game Balls:
Juju Smith Schuster - 7 rec 193yds 1 TD - Great game Juju! You are our #2 WR......without question! G'luck passing your road test Tuesday!
Javon Hargrave - This kid is a great force in the middle of our Defense! The main reason we won this game is because of his play in three goal line situations including the Lions final drive. Gotta get this kid more play time! Hate not seeing him on the field.
Ben Roethlisberger - 17 for 31 317 yds 1 TD, 1 INT - Another day at the office......he's still got it for those who think he's lost it!


Game Goats:
Artie Burns - This kid needs to learn to tackle. He can't tackle for ****! Evidence of this is on that last long pass play to Ebron....plus many more times in the game. Stats show him with 8 tackles but most of those he shoved the WR out after making the catch!


FU's:
Mike Tomlin - Cmon man get Harrison into the mix. No snaps this game....WTF man. You opt for Chickillo & Moats over Deebo! And the Lions moved right down the field when you did that!
Martavius Bryant - Yeah your better than Juju my ******* ***!!! Go get some more facial tattoos ya ********!
 
Hargrave was in on 2 of those goal line tackles and collapsed the pocked on Detroit's last play. Good job J wobble.

FU - The O again. 20 points........That's all this glorious offense could put on the board. More of the same. If they haven't improved by now, they won't.
 
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Hard to argue with those. Whole defense had poor tackling till the redzone.

I'll give an FU to Butler for a screwed up scheme
 
Game ball to all on defense, except Burns. He proved he can not tackle, two passes a yard to the right would have been caught and in bounds, he had chances to knock ball down did not come close and as said he never gets dirty he can't tackle.
 
Can't give a game ball to Ben, 1 INT into triple coverage (should have had a 2nd), missed two wide open receivers, one for TD, hit a lineman in the face mask, threw a screen into the dirt, when the Steelers needed long yardage he threw underneath, when they needed short yardage he took shots down field, he needs to realize he isn't the 28 year old Ben, that would be a step in the right direction for him. He's too erratic so far this year.

Papillon
 
Davis had a good game. Also I actually thought Burns did a lot better in the tackling department.
 
papillon said:
Can't give a game ball to Ben, 1 INT into triple coverage (should have had a 2nd), missed two wide open receivers, one for TD, hit a lineman in the face mask, threw a screen into the dirt, when the Steelers needed long yardage he threw underneath, when they needed short yardage he took shots down field, he needs to realize he isn't the 28 year old Ben, that would be a step in the right direction for him. He's too erratic so far this year.

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Where's the second INT? Funny no mention of the dropped TD by Eli, or the called back TD on the AB push off. Those two plays put him at nearly 400 yards and 3 TDs and 100+ passer rating.
No mention of the 3rd down drop by JuJu. The screen pass in the dirt was a blessing because we lose yards if that pass is on.
The hate for Ben is amazing, people on here bitching more about the passes he missed, then the huge play he made

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Ben never gets a game ball tonight was one where some players we have thrown very little to came up lame. Drop ball, stop on route when they should have continued, Yet Ben still threw perfect balls to JUJU and Brown for the big plays. Tight throws to Jesse James with completions in key situations. Gets knocked down no love from officials. yes he deserve a ball as well.
 
Still not sure why we don't throw screens or dump offs to Bell more often out of the backfield. We did it more in the last game and it worked and it has always worked to get him in open field. Don't line him up at WR but have him come out of the backfield so a LB has to cover him. He should be getting about 6 targets a game out of the backfield along with his 20+ carries.
 
The officials sucked last night. I am still baffled as to why on the one play our player broke straight up the middle at Stafford and was about to sack him when Stafford fired the ball low and right at the defensive player. How is that not intentional grounding? The ball never even made it above his waste. If that's not grounding, then every QB should just fire the ball as hard as they can at the defender coming straight at them so it bounces to the ground. The only sacks a QB should get then are sacks from behind.
 
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The officials sucked last night. I am still baffled as to why on the one play our player broke straight up the middle at Stafford and was about to sack him when Stafford fired the ball low and right at the defensive player. How is that not intentional grounding? The ball never even made it above his waste. If that's not grounding, then every QB should just fire the ball as hard as they can at the defender coming straight at them so it bounces to the ground. The only sacks a QB should get then are sacks from behind.
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Our player hit the ball, if he had not it would have been grounding.Stafford got lucky on that one.
 
On the NON roughing the passer call I said to my friend..........If that was t*mmy b*y not only would there have been a flag but the guy would be fined and suspended.





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Sean Davis deserves a game ball. Dude literally caused two incompletions, including a sure TD. Guy is balling.

I also would switch Artie for Haden as a Goat... I think you have to watch the tape again, b/c Artie was actually tackling pretty well with a lot of the short passes. Haden, however, lost his man several times,

Ben, on the other hand, does not deserve a game ball . 1 INT and 1 TD with a 87% rating? That proves that he's still got it?!? You can talk about Eli's drop, but lets not forget the overthrows (Sure TD to DHB) and the wounded ducks.
 
Chicoman said:
Nice to finally get a win going into the BYE week! We really need to get healthy and I hope Marcus Gilbert can come back healthy after the BYE week because our running game needs his presence. Our Defense certainly bent many times tonight but never broke. Thanks to Javon Hargrave on our three goal line stands vs Lions and they only came away with 3 points on those three drives. Hargrave was a man among boys tonight! His play stood out more than anyone else on that Defense! Gotta get this kid more play time! He's really shown he can collapse the pocket whenever he's in there. Tomlin needs to toss out that two down linemen approach on third down when they take Hargrave out. He needs to be in there he's so disruptive when he is.

Game Balls:
Juju Smith Schuster - 7 rec 193yds 1 TD - Great game Juju! You are our #2 WR......without question! G'luck passing your road test Tuesday!
Javon Hargrave - This kid is a great force in the middle of our Defense! The main reason we won this game is because of his play in three goal line situations including the Lions final drive. Gotta get this kid more play time! Hate not seeing him on the field.
Ben Roethlisberger - 17 for 31 317 yds 1 TD, 1 INT - Another day at the office......he's still got it for those who think he's lost it!


Game Goats:
Artie Burns - This kid needs to learn to tackle. He can't tackle for ****! Evidence of this is on that last long pass play to Ebron....plus many more times in the game. Stats show him with 8 tackles but most of those he shoved the WR out after making the catch!


FU's:
Mike Tomlin - Cmon man get Harrison into the mix. No snaps this game....WTF man. You opt for Chickillo & Moats over Deebo! And the Lions moved right down the field when you did that!
Martavius Bryant - Yeah your better than Juju my ******* ***!!! Go get some more facial tattoos ya ********!
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Very good. To add a little, Berry had a good night and he has been below average this year.
 
Bigappleyinzer said:
Ben, on the other hand, does not deserve a game ball . 1 INT and 1 TD with a 87% rating? That proves that he's still got it?!? You can talk about Eli's drop, but lets not forget the overthrows (Sure TD to DHB) and the wounded ducks.
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Ben had an average game, not game ball worthy, but defiantly nowhere near a crappy game. I still think there were a few players who had a much better game than Ben
 
Bigappleyinzer said:
Ben, on the other hand, does not deserve a game ball . 1 INT and 1 TD with a 87% rating? That proves that he's still got it?!? You can talk about Eli's drop, but lets not forget the overthrows (Sure TD to DHB) and the wounded ducks.
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LOL. He threw for 300 yards. Eli dropped a TD pass, and Bryant might have made the play that DHB did not. Did you forget AB caught a TD that was called back from a push off?
 
Stan and Gerry Dulac both were on DVE in Pittsburgh and got on DHB a bit for not running full speed on that route.
It's funny how people would rather ***** about the passes he missed than say anything about the big passing plays we made.

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SCSteeler4life said:
Our player hit the ball, if he had not it would have been grounding.Stafford got lucky on that one.
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Sorry but that makes no sense. What eligible receiver was in the area he was throwing to? That is the rule, not "what defender touched the ball."
 
Coryea said:
Stan and Gerry Dulac both were on DVE in Pittsburgh and got on DHB a bit for not running full speed on that route.
It's funny how people would rather ***** about the passes he missed than say anything about the big passing plays we made.

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No need to *****, because we won the game and we are 6-2.

I don't even think that Ben was bad last night- he definitely made a handful of plays. But his play was far from 'game ball' worthy.

In fact, it was very much an average outing for a QB- as his QB rating reflects.
 
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Stan and Gerry Dulac both were on DVE in Pittsburgh and got on DHB a bit for not running full speed on that route.
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Sorry, but it was a bad pass. DHB was un-freaking-covered. Have to hit him for the TD.

Rogers should have caught the ball as it hit both his hands. It looked like DHB ran the same route, was at the same spot, was wide open as well, and Roethlisberger just overthrew him.
 
FYI on Harrison, they are saving him for December and January. Get your panties out of a bunch about him not playing. He's 39. He ain't gonna be on the field the whole game to cover up for Jarvis. Watt is the the current and the future at ROLB.
 
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