Let The "Fire Arians" Posts go into High Gear

his situational play calling was questionable on many occasions (double pass today, sweep in KC etc.) and the offense was subpar in the red zone. He was unable to help our struggling defense by going to the run late in games. He never stuck with the run when it was working and had a legitimate phobia when it came to running a screen pass. Get rid of him.

everyone’s numbers were good, but the offense certainly needs to be tightened up a bit. A run on 3rd and 1 might not change the stat lines that much, but it might change the outcome of the game. opening up the big play with a few short throws still gives you the big play, but maybe without the INTs and sacks that come from looking for/forcing the big play. Arians problem is that for every play that works, there’s been one that brings on the punt team, or worse…

And that’s why he needs to go. The double pass today was a perfect example of Arians’ ego on full display. Steelers were basically running the Dolphins completely over at that point, and he puts the ball in Holmes’ hands………I knew as soon as Ben fired it backwards what was coming, and quite obviously, so did the fins. Arians offence operates well if you look at it in a vacuum, but it doesn’t fit well with into a winning program. We have some great offensive parts, but far too often the game hangs in the balance at the end of the game, and quite often against inferior talent, they are allowed to hang around. Bruce is basically a spread/run&shoot guy. There’s a time and place for spreading things out, but way too often we go shotgun or empty backs on third and short, or even 2nd and short for that matter.
Arians’ offence operated much the same when he was in Cleveland……….very exciting when working well, but overall does not help the defense. Thankfully last year, the defense didn’t need much help – until the 4th Q of the SB anyway. While the O and D are never on the field at the same time, they really do need to complement each other. Our defensive woes this year can be chalked up largely to injury – and being left hanging in the breeze while the offence went 3 and out in the 4th quarter while not removing any time from the clock.
For our D to return to dominance, we need an offensive gameplan that is based on ball control. I’m not all for the run as i’ve seen several other posters, but I think we all know there’s a time and place where we need to stick with it – and that just doesn’t happen much with Arians.
Sorry for the long post…….i’m really hoping we will be bidding Bruce adieu.

but winning is far more important and his play calling when we were in position to score or needed to run the clock was consistently poor all year. Yes, the individual stats were great but really probably could have been even greater with a better OC. I am not saying having a quarterback go for 4,000, two receivers and a RB for 1000 isn’t good enough but really there was so much talent on the offense any decent OC could have gotten those numbers out of that team. What was poor was red zone scoring and game ending drives. There were several games where they simply did not play up to their potential and that was in large part due to poor play calling. Player performance in those games certainly contributed but not as much as BA. He can be absolutely brilliant at times but is just too inconsistent. Will he get fired, I doubt it. There are many issues to address in the off season but my bet that the adjustments will be minor.

bye bye brucey
FWP imo….will be back
next year is the the year of the Sweed
Timmons is going to be huge
As is Ziggy

First off the Steelers need to look at rebuilding the 2ndary. Our defensive backs are terrible. They dont play the ball. Cleveland Browns got rid of Mr Gay because he could not defend and we pick him up? Why? ..Ike Taylor does not impress me, Deshea, has lost a step. Todays NFL recievers are ranging from 6’0 to 6’5 and you need D’backs to be at least a minimum of 6’0. Next Special teams? Well if we could get a kicker who could put the ball in the end zone at least 80% of the time on kick offs, special teams may not be that big of a problem. There are a lot kickers in the collegiate level that are graduating that can do just that. I could go on and on but I’ll stop here.

 I have no problems with Bruce , actually I hope he stays. Correct me if I am wrong but was not Bruce the O’cordinator last season when the Steelers went 12-4 and won the Super Bowl? Yes he made some bone headed calls and some exciting calls in the Miami game but if the double pass play would have went as planned then it would have been a GREAT play and everyone would say awesome call. The offensive has performed well through out the season, it is the Defense that has cost us games.

The Steelers might not be done making changes in their coaching staff, but the biggest development yesterday was the one they didn’t make.

After a long and what was termed “productive” meeting with coach Mike Tomlin, offensive coordinator Bruce Arians was told he will return as offensive coordinator in 2010, putting to rest his status after reports surfaced he would be fired.

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