Hard to predict this steeler team. First of all, how many minutes will they feel like playing? I figure the norm for this lot is about 42 minutes where they play like they give a **** and about 18 minutes of general buffoonery.
But this is Monday Night where the ratio is usually more like 53 minutes of football and 7 minutes of jackassery.
Maybe i'm going to feel like a fool on Tuesday morning, but i think this team, players, coaches and owners, really did get a wake up call by all of the media backlash. The normally easy going Pittsburgh media was writing articles calling out Tomlin and Butler and team leaders, or lack there of.
Butler has admitted that on some plays, including Kelce's TD, that he had 2 different coverages called and it was the players responsibility on the field to pick the correct one based on formation, then communicate that to each other. Seems pretty stupid when you have a rookie Safety and several other new faces mixed in with some other players who have a history of being dumb.
Now we are told they will simplify. Well it's about time.
Tampa has weapons but their OL is not great and their run game is not that good. Their defense sucks. The Steeler offense should have it's way. If the steeler defense doesn't keep blowing assignments, they should be good enough to hold the Bucs offense in the 20s.
Steelers go balls out and play 56 minutes of football and just 4 minutes of dumb-assery
Steelers 34
Bucs 27
