Steelers Survive Thursday Night Test against Rival Browns:10 Observations from Heinz Field

Especially #10.

To put a Harrison’ concussed player, right back into the game was aggregious. The Owner should be fined at least 1 million and the coaches suspended w/o pay for at least 1 game. IMO

1- It’s the curse of the Lightbulb helmets. They make everything look weird. Enough with the throwback to an era when Pittsburgh sucked. It works all too well.
2- Ed Hochuli. Nuff said.
3- See point no. 2
4- Darwin award winner.
5- Unlike Rick Perry and yourself I’m a total atheist on that one, clear out NOW!
6- Agreed. Trap game if there ever was one.
7- You want to see Worilds weirdness, watch him in coverage.
8- Boy did we have a hard time closing though. I blame it all on 68.
9/10- Absolutely right. Lost in the Harrison villain story is this awful and irresponsible decision to put McCoy back in without ANY sort of testing. You want player safety? Suspend Shurmur for a game or two and fine both the coach and the organization. That was a total disgrace. In this day in age there is simply no excuse for that.

Great input MR.

…I was commenting on the whole Colt returning thing (banned for a different post). Many of the fans there were incensed by the team putting Colt back in.

I looked at a replay of the period of time that Colt was on the sidelines, and if they administered any kind of test, it was for his ability to wiggle his finger.

There should be a righteous wrath to fall upon the Browns organization by the League for endangering McCoy that way.

Including the one and only, LeCharles Bentley?

Even if it was the hospital/clinic that the Browns were affiliated with that was to blame for the players’ exposure to staph and not the team’s actual medical/training staff, the Browns kind of have a history of medical messes.

Those who think that the Steelers offense was inept should consider that Kapinos punted exactly one time in the game when Big Ben was quarterback (three more times with Batch).

They did turn the ball over twice…Personally, I’d rather punt than fumble.

Yes, he has a legitimate argument that McCoy turned into a running back and previously scrambled the exact same way for a touchdown (though overturned). And yes, you can’t slow up if a guy at the last split second tosses the ball, turning himself back into a quarterback (the old QB-RB-QB switcheroo), but the helmet to helmet thing will cost him.

Well said. Harrison’s right, McCoy turned himself into a runner, but he’ll be fined because the rules clearly state it’s on the defender to peel off if the running QB goes to the ground or releases the ball, and if he fails to do that, it’s a penalty.

Interesting that Hochuli blew it again by calling roughing the QB when it was more accurate to say helmet -to-helmet on a defenseless player without the ball.

Per the rule book, technically, Harrison roughed the passer. That rule trumps the defenseless player rules. It’s under the same set of rules as when a QB goes to the ground.

Hochuli actually once said “the result is a better result”

That was almost as funny as when Mayock held off on dropping an F-bomb talking about how tough Harrison is. I like the fact Hochuli at least tries to explain the situation. He’s the only official who does that.

…He also declared that there was no grounding, then called grounding on McCoy, when actually McCoy’s knee was down before either the grounding or no grounding. It was wrong on top of wrong on top of wrong…

Yeah, after all that, it was a sack. He looked to be well outside the pocket to me.

Yes, yardage-wise, punting is always better than a fumble, but schematically for an offense, punting means that your plays didn’t work. On both fumbles, the plays worked very well, then the fumbles occurred. You can’t plan for that offensively (though you can commit to better ball control). I was thinking in terms of the Steelers offense, they weren’t stopped (except for the goal-line stand), they really stopped themselves, thus hardly punting…(hope that makes sense)…

There was no evidence to overturn the call on the field. Unless they had a ground cam that we were all aware of.

You apparently have a much higher resistance to alcohol than many other people. I’ve seen drunken fans do things during Steeler games that are virtually impossible to believe, had I not witnessed them with my very own eyes. Here are only a couple of choice examples:

1) Fan waiting in a long line to the Mens room decides he can’t wait any longer and takes a wizz right on the ground so now everyone is standing in his urine.

2) Little runt of a guy sitting in front of me and my two friends wants to pick a fight just because we asked him to sit down and stop blocking our view. I’m the skinny guy of our trio at 6-2, 195. One of my friends is 6-1, 295 and the other one is 6-5, 350. Both are mild mannered, thank God, because either one could probably have tossed this little banty rooster out to about the 50 yard line.

It has become almost impossible to attend a Steeler home game these days and not see one version or another of this kind of thing. That’s why I only go to the stadium once or twice per season. In the old days, people normally just drank during the game, but today they arrive bombed and then proceed to get fall-down, shit-faced. Not exactly a wholesome, family atmosphere.

Trainer: Are you Batman?

McKoy: Why, yes, I am the Dark Knight.

Trainer: Get back in there then Batman the Joker is getting away.

or however you spell his stupid name, seems to overturn at least one Steeler play every time he officiates one of their games. It is usually exactly like the Brown catch, in that everyone believes the play will stand including the announcers and then Hochy cocky comes out and blows everyone away with his overturning the call on the field. He is a poohead.

Living in Ohio I can totally understand how absolutely ridiculous Browns fans can be. The word insufferable comes to mind. It has gotten to the point that I do not even bother trying to an intelligent football conversation with most of the browns fans I know. Inevitably turns into vitriolic had speech directed at BB and a whole lot of name calling … on their part of course.