Driveby Report: "You lost to who?" edition

1. Let me know if you are in the area in the spring. I will hit 9 or 18 with you. Forewarned though, I am awful at golf but love to play. You will not go home unamused.

3. How pathetic was every tackle attempt on Cribbs last night? I assure you I could have tackled him better than some of those black and gold last night.

4. Agreed. Team game, team blame.

5. This was the worst game Ben played all year. IMO, he was never in question as being a reason we lost a game, until last night.

7. How about that “Woodley Show Series”. 1st and 10, Woodley Personal foul face mask. 1st and 10 Woodley sack for 9ish. 2nd down Woodley stuffs the run. 3rd down Woodley gets a pass deflection and near interception. Well done Woodley. Easily the best defensive series we had.

10. I know the comment was tongue and cheek, but they basically were “scoring” in the 4th. That one drive was what? 6 full minutes or so….

11. Sweed….

12. Yep.

13. No.

15. Check downs can be very nice! That is…if your players catch them.

19. Give it up to Rob Ryan and his schemes last night. He seemed to be nose deep in our playbook and made the right call on almost every play (especially in the 1st half). Kudos to you sir. Keep in mind they basically had some players in there who were “picked up off the street.”

And that dropped dumpoff, but was anyone else pretty ecstatic to see Mendenhall as our 3rd down back, especially on a night when Mewelde Moore seemed unable to field a simple kickoff.

4. Amen.

5. Yeah, that is Ben this year, takes sacks when nobody gets open, gets happy feet when someone does, the guy can’t win this year.

7. The Woodley series was my favorite part of the game.

8. I had to walk 8 blocks to watch the game, I could not have played in that game. No way.

9. Easy solution, the PNC park Perogi races.

11. At some point he’ll be gone, that is a sad truth.

14. Watch. . . again. . . How dare you sir, how dare you.

15. Rashard could lead this team in receptions, so could Heath.

18. I think we both brought that up in preseason.

19. Where was Keenan Lewis? I watched that whole game waiting for him, and he was inactive. Roster changes pheh, Holmes punt return, Rashard on third down and 4 series of Bernett at CB (looked good, better than I would expect a rookie to do) is it? The redemption wasn’t, Hell unleashed looked like a burning poo bag and now roster changes many teams would do without any announcement at all? I know I champion the calm and steady approach, but I would like a little overreaction for my fandom entertainment.

1. I’ll drive the cart

5. perhaps they could put an electric collar around his neck that zaps him if he holds the ball for over 10 seconds.
  
6.his posture is much better than earlier in the season. The hesitation at the line is weird-looking, you can see when he can’t figure out how the play is developing

7.His superman series was the bright point for the night

10.sure didn’t

11.if he wasn’t in we would’ve been asking what would’ve happened if he was, but yea the gimping was noticable

12.keep him and implement him into the offense more. I think if he does more than returns, it would make him better at ST.

18.Atleast playing harder opponents would make losing easier to digest

19.In team spirit, I shoot this bullet in my foot, cause that’s what steelers have managed to do yet again

2:40 left, Steelers driving, Browns defense on the heels for the first time all night and gasping for air. Steelers in no huddle with fresh first down….TIME OUT
Coaches add in their 2 cents and presto….3rd and 19. Talk about killing our momentum! Why call time out and let the Browns regroup? Yoi and double yoi.

6. I think it will get fixed. When it does look out.

12. possible but I don’t think it will happen unless he lights the league up for the last 3 weeks.

18. just about this much easier → -

19. That was genius sir.

I think we are sitting at 15th overall draft pick.

what the hell was up with all of the empty sets against a blitzing defense playing press man coverage with no WR’s who could separate? and what’s up with the continued love for 2 and 3 TE sets when we only have one TE who can play? and when did 15 degrees and windy mean spread ‘em out and chuck it around? i’m just sayin’…

‘Cause I’m looking hard for a silver lining this morning…

I’m good with Timmons, he’s been playing a lot better IMO. Woodley has become the player he was last year as of late. Slow start, but if the other team is scheming for him, that might be a piece of it.

15) Specifically. I guess I just don’t understand the game as well as I thought I did. Heath has pretty much disappeared the last few games. I know he dropped some lately….I’m thinking it’s because he’s surprised to see it coming his way.
How about Mendy? He’s had what, 4 or 5 recptions this year that have gone for 10+ yards – so why doesn’t he get it at least a second or third time in a game? One and done????
How about play action? In cold, windy weather, down by less than 2 TD’s, is there any explanation for an empty back-field?

In 2005 the team against all odds won 8 straight games to win the SB when nobody count it.
Last year the toughest calendar and won the SB
This team has showed can play against adversity
For me the key lost was vs the Bengals because meant a lot of for this team and what happened? can’t win since then
Is frustrated to watch the way the Steelers are playing and for my personal point of view don’t think can’t win a game this season
For me the issues came from the head to the lower level

Rec’d, BTW. I look at this season, and it’s a different aspect of the team losing it for us each week. One week it’s STs, then it’s the D giving up late leads, or the O with 3 and outs late the game. Right now, this whole team sucks pretty bad. The only possible consolation is the numbers that Ben, Hines, and Tone have put up this season. Small consolation . . . . Well, there is the probable top ten draft pick.

its about 13 degrees outside and with the wind chill its -12 with a stiff wind of 25 MPH and gusts of 40 so we decide we are going to throw the ball at all times we’ll run it occasionally but when the ball is more like a rock and you have to have a holder on KO we’re going to throw the ball the whole game. Now I’m no OC but whouldn’t common sense tell you to run the ball in that situation or on a 3rd & 1 why not use a fullback.. wait “There is not fullback in MY Offense” well you need to find one for games like this so we can pound the ball against the Cleveland Browns or any team for the rest of this season cause it’s not going to be warm till we head down to Miami. What I’m tryinbg to say is "When you run the ball good things happen.

Anybody else wonder if Ben was all there last night? He moved around in the pocket much less than normal. A Browns fan told me today he’s never seen Ben go down so easily.

There was a wierd play where Ben, under pressure in the pocket, standing still, moved the ball from his right hand to his left, and continued standing there. Finally he was brought down. What was he going to do when he shifted the ball but didn’t run or scramble? He looked like a statue.

He didn’t look for shorter routes when the pressure kept coming (since he never throws it away) and didn’t seem to audible much. The blitzes looked pretty blatant most of the time.

If Ben wasn’t 100% upstairs, but not concussed, this is the kind of game I’d expect him to play. Not sharp mentally and some (but not all) of his throws off the mark.

Quite a few comments around that Arians didn’t make any adjustments to the Browns pressure. Gotta agree: empty backfield against relentless pressure with a QB tthat doesn’t throw it away and displayed an unusual lack of elusiveness. Ugh.

I’m a HUGE LeBeau fan, but what was he doing last night? Every time that the Browns put Cribbs in the wildcat, the Steelers reacted like they’d never seen it before. Cribbs never threw it, and most of the time he simply ran wide left, getting around the corner more often than not.

After the pattern was established (and it was done early) and the Browns went wildcat, why didn’t Timmons line up wider, denying Cribbs the corner and tackling him or pushing him back inside? Time after time, Cribbs got around the edge, the linebackers chasing him along a flat angle and not getting there. The guy was 80% of their offense last night.

The other 20% being a guy just off the practice squad who was running in Canada before that. Good lord.

When Hines complained publicly about Ben’s injury status, the red flags and sirens went off in my head. There’s something unresolved in the Steelers locker room, and it involves the QB. The hell with the weather last night – our offense has been teh suck since the Denver game.

Yeah, the defense has been up and down, but the offense has been uniformly bad against some of the worst defenses in the NFL. The O has played without pride or passion, and at times some of these guys look like they’re going through the motions. This doesn’t look like the Steelers of the past, even in bad years they brought everything they had.

To channel my Inner Jim Mora Sr. It doesn’t matter who you play when you go 2-13 or 14 on Third down you aren’t beating anyone

he seems to be the only player on the offense that hasn’t mailed it in for the year, from my point of view. i’ll excuse Hines because of his hamstring, but he should have sat.