Might see Dixon on Sunday night??

……and nearly got physically ill. This is no way for Dixon to start his career. Those birds will have their ears (okay they don’t really have ears) pinned back. I’d like at least two more lombardis during the BB era, so understandable if they sit him. I just wish he’d made up his mind earlier in the week so that Dix could have taken all the snaps – not that he’s really be ready anyway…….also would have been nice in my pick’em pool to have this information.
Whatever the situation, our guys will line up and play………gotta say though too – this may be just the thing to bring that edge back to the team – win or lose, i say the boys will battle hard for Coach Tomlin.
Ben – do whatever is best for your long term health!

Who is the backup if Ben sits? Palko?

wev’e beat the ravens 4 of last 5,,,,were not 6/7 better than the ravens,,,,,,without an anomaly game ,,( ie.ben out , dixon start etc.). this might be the best time to loose to them…… ben being out may raise the intensity of the rest of the team and produce the vaporous , indefineable " something" that most fans seem to feel has been missing this year.

although, it screwed the patriots last year(good), you can count on one hand , the times an 11-5 record didn’t make the playoffs. ,,,,,but every year with a third of the season left to play the doomers of all pursuasions speculate that 11-5 won’t make it.

this team wasn’t the best team in the league last yr,,,,,it was super bowl champ cause it was the best team over an eight game stretch. and its not good enough to have been the best team over a 16 game stretch even this yr. but it could be over the 5 game sprint it would take to go 11-5 to make the playoffs.

tomlin, knows this,,,(easy camp)
dick lebeau knows this,,,,,he played straight up dee,,,,for the first part of the season,,,,,he was sand baggin,,,,,,much the same way he sandbagged indianapolis on mon. night in 05 to set up joey porters 2 back to back sacks on manning to win the playoff game. our dee is average but,,,,,,. le beau ‘s a genious with a prodigy safety……. he saves his his game winners for the end of the game and the end of the season,,,,,,he knows they’re finite contrary to what the talking heads say about infinite possibilities of blitz.

our offences is and has been,,, ben( that may be changing some with o=line and rashard, but untill it has,) ben can’t bring us back evrey game all season long,,,,, his cme back win ability is finite also.

but he can for 5- 8 games……some pre season stat nerds web site wrote that we won last year cause we had an abnormal sucess on third down against teams that had abnormal failure on third down . that we’d be 9-7, or 10-6 this year when the averages returned. i think they’re half right ,,,, the other half is that ben some of that himself.

ben can be a bit of a drama queen,,,,but if he needs a cheezy excuse when he rarely doesn’t acheive his and our high expectations,,, il’ll let him have it without notice.

if coach mike wants to throw some misdirection at the ravens ,,, thats good too..

in the mean time, this is the right time to see if dixon can play, if rashard can get past ray, 80 yrds against the ravens would be great, like a buck and a half against anyone else,,, if the team can find the" something" and if we can’t make a 5 game sprint, we don’t deserve i

here comes the steel cat offence. have fun