Please Steelers wash your hands of the Lebeau stink!

[Coryea]

Cowher was directly from the Marty coaching tree, and coached the same way in the playoffs, until Wiz decided to mix in gadget plays in the playoffs for the 05 season.

You do realize in the 01AFCCG Kordell threw the ball like 28 times to Bettis 8 or 9 carries in the first half.

Neil threw the ball around 50 times in the 1994 AFCCG even though we didn't trail until mid way through the 4th.

 

[skline00]

Look at the personnel. It's terrible.

Heyward - Borderline Pro Bowl player.
McLendon - Solid in the middle of the line, but not your prototypical 3-4 NT.
Tuitt - Improving player and already one of the better defenders.
Dupree/Moats - Rookie with little impact since early in season and he has passed Moats for playing time.
Timmons - Solid, but beginning to slow down.
Shazier - Soft against the run and can't cover. Still waiting for him to take over a game.
Jones/Harrison - Jones is a guy and Harrison is probably down to the last game of his career.
Blake - Seriously. He is our starting cornerback.
Gay - Decent, but would be better if the nickel back.
Cockrell/Boykin - Again, decent players in reserve roles.
Allen - Should be your No. 3 or 4 safety but is starting.
Mitchell - Physical player who makes a lot of boneheaded plays. In Ryan Clark mold of getting hurt after every big hit.

You can only mask that lack of talent so much.

Very fair analysis. Not the type of Defense to occasionally bail an Offense out.
We needed some big Defensive plays to help out our Offense. Instead we saw what we were afraid of at the beginning of the season.

The NFL has become a pass happy league and until the Steelers can draft fast BIG secondary players that play tight we will never see the playoffs.