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The Defence, the Turnovers, and the Tucker

Offense - Lamar, yet again, plays small against PIT. These pass-catchers also did him no favors with 2 fumbles. Even Henry fumbles as well. It's just undisciplined football with these fucking penalties which conveniently come on the big-gain plays. Also, WHAT THE FUCK kinda playcall was that on that 2-point conversion? No Henry?

Defense - Played their best game since the Bills game. Even got an INT against Russ, but I wasn't excited at all. I knew some bullshit was gonna happen. Run defense was a little iffy, but that was disgraceful defense against Fields.

Stick a fork in Tucker, he's beyond done.

And fuck these refs with some of their calls.
 
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rossihunter2 said:
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Is our penalty issue because of coaching OR is it because the refs are out to get us because we proposed two changes this offseason that were supposed to increase refs accountability? Let's face it we've seen a ton of questionable calls or straight up phantom calls where they refs just made something up. That isn't a coaching problem, that's a league being a joke issue
 
rossihunter2 said:
Winning is hard when you lose the turnover battle 1-3 and miss 2 field goals.

When you lose by 2 points, every single one of those mistakes looms large.

Especially when the opposition didn't score a single TD.
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This. Then any time there was progress early theres a flag. And the OL still cant be trusted.
 
OL can't run block for shit.
OL can barely pass block.
OL are enormous penalty machines. Mostly because they're bad at their job. None of this new or specific to this game.

More dropped passes. Bate and Zay.

Pass rush was alive in the 1st half and was completely nonexistent in the second half.

Brandon Stephens needs to hang with his buddies Marcus Williams and Eddie Jackson. All 3 are trash and shouldn't see the field.

Trenton Simpson is either useless or a liability. Malik Harrison probably shouldn't play defense.

Roquan and Hamilton are hurt.

STs sucked on KR and FGs. Tucker and or the wolf pack is cooked.

Orr had is first really good game. An adjustment was actually made and it was highly effective.

Monken continues to be a poor play caller in critical moments. Loves calling cute or ultra specific one option plays. They rarely work.

Chris Horton is and has been objectively bad for years.

Harbs doesn't do anything and never has the team prepared for a disciplined opponent.
 
I don't really know what to say. I figured we'd lose, just because that's the pattern. But we should have won, but that's part of the pattern too... that when we should, we don't. The better team won the game.

What I can't understand, and I know some disagree, but with 40 secs left in the half, after taking the lead with a TD and holding the Steelers to a punt, why didn't we just run the clock out there?! It might not be a popular decision, but for as poorly as we had played, we HAD THE LEAD at that point... even with 2 missed FG's! That's shocking to me.

I understand @SepticeyePoe 's point of giving Lamar a chance with time, but haven't we seen it enough that when we do something like this we fail more often than we succeed. And especially today with playing so poorly, don't you err on the side of caution there?

I'm sick seeing some of this stuff in sport nowadays. I get being aggressive, but being aggressive should not be used as an excuse for not winning. Scoring points and preventing points are still the game as much as limiting chances to score. I point to the Bungles on Thursday night going for the 2 instead of tying it and going into OT. I don't think a loss can be seen as acceptable merely because of being aggressive. It's still a loss when it didn't have to be.
 
Looks like we will be on the road with a wild card, which may not gain us much because we are not passing the Bills or Chiefs.
 
drjohnnyfever said:
I don't really know what to say. I figured we'd lose, just because that's the pattern. But we should have won, but that's part of the pattern too... that when we should, we don't. The better team won the game.

What I can't understand, and I know some disagree, but with 40 secs left in the half, after taking the lead with a TD and holding the Steelers to a punt, why didn't we just run the clock out there?! It might not be a popular decision, but for as poorly as we had played, we HAD THE LEAD at that point... even with 2 missed FG's! That's shocking to me.

I understand @SepticeyePoe 's point of giving Lamar a chance with time, but haven't we seen it enough that when we do something like this we fail more often than we succeed. And especially today with playing so poorly, don't you err on the side of caution there?

I'm sick seeing some of this stuff in sport nowadays. I get being aggressive, but being aggressive should not be used as an excuse for not winning. Scoring points and preventing points are still the game as much as limiting chances to score. I point to the Bungles on Thursday night going for the 2 instead of tying it and going into OT. I don't think a loss can be seen as acceptable merely because of being aggressive. It's still a loss when it didn't have to be.
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Giving up the field goal at The end of the first half was a killer.
 
I think we totally blew Lamar's window. We had 7 shots including this year. Probably should've won 2. At least 1. Could've 3.
 
I’m still trying to understand what that play call was on the 2 point conversion
 
Adreme said:
On a note outside of the game itself this is really bad for Lamar getting his 3rd MVP. Frustrating because that INT was complete bs (or at least it being considered an INT on Lamar is bs), but between the pedestrian game and falling to the 5 seed its going to be problematic for getting those votes. Basically have needed the 1 or 2 seed to be MVP in the past decade and meanwhile Allen has a chance to beat Mahomes which is going to get him a lot of consideration and the Lions absolutely stomped today, with Goff having insane numbers. The Ravens basically need to somehow pass the Steelers in the division, and ideally get close to the 1/2 seed for him to get that MVP.
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I can't imagine Goff is a serious candidate for the MVP, but this is absolutely a game where Allen can vault himself firmly into the lead.
 
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