Tomlin Aint F&#King Around! So much for Tank

by TheCommish on Sep 29, 2009 4:57 PM EDT Comment 15 comments

I will quote florio from profootballtalk.com today. Two good reads.

Steelers put Frank Summers on IR, bring back Carey Davis Posted by Mike Florio on September 29, 2009 4:39 PM ET

With running back Frank Summers out for the year, the Pittsburgh Steelers have brought a familiar face back to the 'Burgh.

Carey Davis has been added to the roster, taking the place of Summers, who is no on IR.

Summers was a fifth-round pick in the 2009 draft. He played in the first two games of the year, but sat out Sunday's loss to the Bengals with a back injury.

Davis spent 2006 through 2008 with the Steelers. He plays tailback and fullback, and he has returned kicks.

Sweed, Mendenhall on notice in Pittsburgh Posted by Tom Curran on September 29, 2009 3:28 PM ET

The two players taken at the top of the Steelers 2008 draft are catching a significant amount of heat from head coach Mike Tomlin.

On Sunday, former first-round running back Rashard Mendenhall didn't take an offensive snap. Mendenhall, Tomlin explained, "wasn't on the details" in the days leading up to the game.

Limas Sweed, a second-rounder last year, did take an offensive snap. And allowed a touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger to squirt out of his grasp when he hit the ground in the end zone.

According to Scott Brown in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Tomlin was asked today if Sweed could lose his spot to Shaun McDonald, who's been inactive the first three games. "Absolutely," was Tomlin's reply.

Not a lot of gray area there.

As for Mendenhall, Tomlin cuffed down the notion that he's in the "doghouse."

"A doghouse is something you have when you let things stew," said Tomlin. "I tend to take action and I'm done with it."

The third player the Steelers took in that 2008 draft, linebacker Bruce Davis, has already been released. In other words, it's not looking like a bumper crop of players. To put it mildly.

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Deja vu, I feel like I’ve read all of this someplace before. Can’t quite place it.

Willie Colon - top 2 RT in the NFL

by steelguy99 on Sep 29, 2009 5:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Umm...Did you read the disclaimer. Straight from pro talk. Nobody mentioned much about Tomlin's comments on Mendenhall which maybe telling. Mewelde may be our man.

by TheCommish on Sep 29, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

cut and paster

by WARDANE33 on Sep 30, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

interesting

Interesting decision when you think about all the talk there has been about Redman, Tank going on IR would’ve been a perfect chance to bring him in. Tomlin must obviously feel he is not ready.

by DarinS on Sep 29, 2009 6:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

We need a fullback, not sure if we ever had one

by TheCommish on Sep 29, 2009 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Like Carey Davis is the answer there...

God thought we got rid of him.

Oh well.

Our Run game was fine when we actually called good sweeps out left, like I scream at the TV every week for. Then we got stale. Parker just doesnt run up the gut with our god awful O-line, we need to stop calling that.

My other gripe, we never once throw a pitch out to a RB. Those plays work. We just never use them.

by Mechem on Sep 29, 2009 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would die for...

a quick pump fake WR screen to one side, then a pitch to Parker around the other side. I saw another team run that play this weekend and said to myself, “No wonder BA has never ran that play: it would work too well with FAST Willie.”

by CarlWeathersMustache on Sep 29, 2009 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Amen

Every time I’ve seen us run a pitch out, it works…. Must be why we dont use it. Its honestly a great way to play to the skills of FWP. Instead of pretending hes Bettis and plunging him up the gut.

I think the last pitch I remember was in Ravens 2 and it actually gained yards, and I also think there was ONE in the Chargers 2 game last year….

Are they just worried about parkers hands?

by Mechem on Sep 30, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I"m a SB winning Offensive Cord.... yeah but what have you done lately?

our only hope with Bruce “I WON A SB” Arians, is that someone offers him more money or more opportunity somewhere else, but i’m not holding my breath, he stinks, the majority of the BIG plays we get are from Ben getting out of the pocket & improvising, Ben should take a page from Terry Bradshaw and call his own plays,

by southernBURGH on Sep 30, 2009 1:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Unfortunately

The only way we will see the departure of Arians is if the Steelers have a bad season and Tomlin fires BA himself. I think 31 other teams know what we already know, so don’t expect Arians to be high on anyone’s list of anything (except maybe top ten list of guys NOT to hire). On the flip side, should the Steelers end up at 12-4, 11-5 or somesuch, make the playoffs and make some noise again, there is no way Tomlin shitcans Arians.

The only managing Ben does is he manages to WIN games

by chewiesteeler on Sep 30, 2009 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Random thought

Did Sweed REALLY have to fall in the endzone? COuld he have not stayed on his feet?

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

by PixburghArn on Sep 30, 2009 8:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I would have to see it again but I think he was already leaning forward when he caught it, but he certainly could have controlled his body so he didn’t land on his elbows.

by DarinS on Sep 30, 2009 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No

He did not need to fall. Yes, he was already leaning before he made the grab, but he didn’t need to do that. He should have been able to run through the catch and make it. My thought: Sweed is thinking “Oh crap, here comes the pass…just catch it because you’re already in the end zone.” He overcompensated in his desire to make the catch, falling to the ground in an attempt to cradle the ball, and lost it.

by CarlWeathersMustache on Sep 30, 2009 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was simpler than that

I think he also probably was trying to get down and away from that defender who might be trying to swat at the ball… But I think the brain conversation went like this:

“Oh shit another EZ TD… you gotta catch this one sweed, just focus on that catch”

catches it

“Sweet yeah you’ve got it! You finally did it. You’re gonna be a star. No more problems. You got the monkey off your back, hooraaa——”

Ball flops out

He just lost focus.

by Mechem on Sep 30, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs