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I feel terrible for the Defense.

johngaenzler said:
They played great. Deserved the win. Juju cost us another massively important game. Starting to question his mental toughness...


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mdk2 said:
So no blame on Juju for not protecting the football and acknowledging that Humphrey was going for the ball ALL game. It’s the 2nd time he’s fumbled the game/season away in as many seasons. It’s becoming an issue.


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**** off with this bullshit. Bettis fumbled in the most important moment in his entire career. Juju didn't fumble this season away, we were down to our THIRD STRING QB due to a dirty hit, and we somehow were able to still be in the game. And this was AFTER the refs gifted the Ravens a first down on a total bullshit roughing the passer call...

Jesus this place is downright pathetic with how you choose to place blame.
 
The defense bit on the cheese most of the time. They knew it was coming. Wtf?

Hodges did ok for a guy that likely saw very few snaps in practice.
 
CoolieMan said:
handed the game by the refs??? bullshit. The phantom roughing the passer call on the rats last drive in the 4th quarter negates this argument

and no it doesn't suck to be me. I love watching the Steelers but I am not crying like a ***** on a message board after a ****** loss
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Bush's oint was not a catch, the catch by the Rats player was overturned the refs were bad today and helped us more than hurt us by a ton.

We are 1-4 on MERIT.
 
Steelmann said:
I thought for the most part the D played their hearts out. Gave the O great position,were on the field all game long it seemed. You guys do know that Baltimore was leading the league in offense,weather it be by ****** opposition or not.

It will be interesting to see how our dear Steeler fans treat JuJu. I love the kid,but **** man. That's two. Other receivers less popular would be railroaded out of town for this. There is no doubt in my mind it would have been a fairy tale ending for Hodges's and Boz to win the game.

I was screaming at Tomlin for deferring in OT. But he was right ,I was wrong. He and the D put us in a position to win.

The range of emotions we have had to deal with this season has been something else. I thought the hit on Mason was a total cheap shot and can't believe the announcers didn't make more of this. And the refs did not win this game for them. That was not an int by Bush. And that was not a catch. There was no way he had possession. We would have been screaming bloody murder if those calls went against us. And yes that was not roughing the QB
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In Philly they’d save babies from burning apartments and hold onto them unlike JuJu
 
johngaenzler said:
I don’t disagree with you, but if that was Hines Ward, I feel like it wouldn’t have happened. Juju is young. He’ll get better...


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No way. Sometimes we are on the wrong side of a great football play. Hines gets that punched out too.
 
CharlesDavenport said:
No way. Sometimes we are on the wrong side of a great football play. Hines gets that punched out too.
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It was good punch.
Guys like say Ward, Moss, Rice etc is that they’d get separation from a db, so those punch out chances are lessened.
Juju is still young and wears his heart on his sleeve to be a rock leader right now. He’ll get better
 
MTC said:
It was good punch.
Guys like say Ward, Moss, Rice etc is that they’d get separation from a db, so those punch out chances are lessened.
Juju is still young and wears his heart on his sleeve to be a rock leader right now. He’ll get better
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Not talking about if he should have been more open, the guy was on him. That’s the situation.
 
CoolieMan said:
defense has looked totally different since the trade for Fitzpatrick
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Well worth the number 1 pick given up. Which I was preaching from the getgo. You have a injury at a important position and you have the opportunity to pick up a guy like Fitz you go get him. on most years no way do the Steelers have a crack at drafting that kind of value pick.
 
mdk2 said:
Anyone else notice the defense got better once Barron left the game?
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Yes, much better. By far the laziest player I've ever seen. Way too many zero effort plays.

MTC said:
Juju will be alright. I hope. And yes, it was great play by the DB
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I'm disappointed in the fumble, but you're right, that was a heck of a play by the DB.
 
Well, here's what I know. This coaching staff spotted the Ravens 10 points with a pathetic offensive gameplan because they are afraid to unshackle Rudolph. Time and time again this staff fails to have the team ready to start a game. i don't know how many times you can watch this team underachieve and not realize that they are entirely poorly coached come gameday. And Tomlin still has no clue how to use his ****** timeouts. 13 seasons and he's still dumb as ever at clock management despite supposedly hiring sonebody to help his dumb ***.
 
johngaenzler said:
I don’t disagree with you, but if that was Hines Ward, I feel like it wouldn’t have happened. Juju is young. He’ll get better...


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Eh, Hines had some rough moments. Go back to 2006 vs the Denver Broncos, at home. Ward had a bad, bad fumble inside the 5 going for a touchdown. There were a few debacles that day, but that play, and that game, felt like the final nail in the coffin. Denver was cruising high at that point, and we had our backs on the ropes, and dropped it. I’m sure a couple more happened here or there for him too.
 
I would say that some of the defense played well. Namely Watt, Fitz, all the corners, Bush and Vince. Tuitt was not good and Dud was his usual useless self.
 
mdk2 said:
Anyone else notice the defense got better once Barron left the game?
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This point cannot be emphasized enough, it absolutely did. And I couldn't believe it when I heard the announcers say something about Tomlin complimenting Barron's play (well I guess I can).
 
Before Baron left they took out Bush in passing downs, odd since we gave up a ton for the guy and everyone here can see how poor Baron has been this season coupled with his lack of effort on many ocassions.
 
BLITZ said:
Are you a Steelers fan?
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A die hard Steeler fan not a Tomlin fan. To keep doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result is insanity. Trying to get Tomlin to coach by the book is beyond the ability of Roonety evidently. We will not win **** until the cancer known as Tomlin is gone he has effectively killed the Steeler way with both his arrogance and ineptitude.
 
Steeler Pride said:
Tomlin leaving Watt on the bench for the first half of the last Ravens possession cost us the game. Tomlin and his conservative assed defense with a 3 point lead and 2 min in the game lost this game. No guarantee that we score even if JuJu holds onto the ball. Some year Tomlin will attempt to ice a kicker, learn to manage the clock, or not play conservative defense with the game on the line.
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Everyone in the stadium knew they would get to FG range. It was four downs for them at that point. The refs gifted them 15 on the BS personal four on 92. We are just not good enough on offense right now. I’m not a Tomlin fan, but to act like the D lost this is just stupid!
 
It was like a a totally different defense once Barron left the game. A case of addition by subtraction.
 
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