Steelers are Slow Learners
by ec on Nov 15, 2010 12:42 AM EST
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Setting aside the fact that I would gladly suffer a 1-15 season if the single win was a 50-0 beatdown of the Patriots with a gratuitous destruction of Brady's knee in the process, I have grown long tired of the Steelers continuing to bring the same faulty game plan against the Patriots. You cannot beat them with a zone blitz and mediocre secondary coverage. You need to beat the hell out of their receivers so that they cannot complete short passes nor long ones. The Steelers defense works against average or even good quarterbacks, but it doesn't work against QBs who do not make mistakes. And you cannot expect to hit such a QB enough times to win, and you have no prayer when you cannot even touch the QB. In the national press, the Steelers are not known for changing their game plan much. But against the Patriots, the Steelers ought to try LEARNING and CHANGING. Afterall, we all ought to know what the definition of idiocy is...and the Black and Gold have been wearing that moniker with great shame for about a decade now.
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thats the dumbest stuff ive ever read here
our moniker is Perenial contender.
by Steelchamps !! on Nov 15, 2010 12:44 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
I share your pain and frustration. When they can come into our house and lay a beatdown on us with average talent, we need to change our gameplan.
by Steeler Maniac on Nov 15, 2010 12:46 AM EST reply actions
MORE LIKE NEVER LEARNERS
Very good point,coming with the same old game plan yielding the same old result.Change is not a bad thing brains will most of the time beat brawn and for the most part the STEELERS are way to predictable on offense and defense Hello.
Bigsteel
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Punctuation (and for that matter removing Caps Lock) saves lives.
This is one game. Tom Brady is a very good QB who has figure out how to pick apart our defense. Is it frustrating? Yes. Are we learning every time they beat us? Yes. Take a chill pill, step away from the Caps Lock, and relax. The Pats game is over and we look forward to the Raiders. Crying into our drinks (or in your case venting to the interwebs) will not solve anything. All we can do from this point is move forward with the knowledge that we need to step up our game if we want to be true contenders this year. Brady will get his, but now we need to get ours.
Go Steelers!
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.-- John Madden
by steelcitysweetheart on Nov 15, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
I'm not buying the "it's just one game" excuse against the Pats.
Brady has done this over and over again in Pittsburgh. It’s like a bad rerun if you watch the previous times he’s done it.
Lebeau wants to give up the short pass to protect against the long one – well that’s just stupid against the Pats. The freaking didn’t even have a deep threat and we gave them 8-10 yard passes all game long. Their offense is based solely on executing short passes and we just gave it to them! Don’t we even watch film of our opponents?
With no pressure and no tight coverage Brady can and has dissected this soft zone over and over. If we don’t change that scheme then I wouldn’t bet a bucket of spit on our chances to beat them in the playoffs. Actually now that the blueprint is fresh in every coaches mind again we can expect to see this from every QB in the league. Will they all execute it this well? No, but until we stop it I would expect the other teams to do nothing but throw the ball. This could cost us even a trip to the playoffs unless we get it fixed.
by lkwdsteel on Nov 15, 2010 11:47 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
good i hope all the teams in the league starts useing that game plan against us
maybe then Lebeau will finally stop being so stubborn and quite playing soft coverage, I swear sometimes hes as bad as BA
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by H-burgSTEELfanatic on Nov 15, 2010 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
excellent post- put Polamaulo on Welker and stop 8 yard completions!
Great post EC. Lebeau must adapt to the perfectly run rinky-dink passing game. Every knows that the 6 to 8 yard pass is the key to the NE offense. Put Troy on Welker and have him look for picks and big hits between 4 and 9 yards from the line. And I don’t care if this makes Dick have to rework his zone and risk some long passes. If they let Brady walk down the field 8 yards at a time every other possesion, ahat is the risk?
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