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On location in Baltimore: Ravens 26, Steelers 6 354
DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS BALTIMORE — Getting ready for kickoff … Game: Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens, 8:28p.m., M&T Bank Stadium TV, radio: CBS (national), NFL Network, 102.5 WDVE Online: Game Center / Multimedia / Official media notes And here again is the game preview column that ran yesterday. UPDATE 5:46 p.m.: I’ll check in live at 6:15 p.m. with my brethren at Winnipeg’s TSN 1290 Radio. Click the link to hear us online. I’ll post the podcast shortly after we’re done. 6:55: The podcast is posted. Right above this. 6:56: Antonio Brown has
Well Mr’s Tomlin & Colbert, take a good long look at your handy work. Not a pretty picture.
This is where my thoughts lead me, also. These are their players, for better or worse. If it ain’t the players, then have to question whether coaches are putting them in position to succeed. Either way, something is rotten
Only decent LB is down
These Steelers are awful. 8-8 would be a major accomplishment with this talent and coaching staff.
Wow, Timmons
Ole’ fashion beat down.
13 points off steelers turnovers…. Would make it a 13-6 game. The offense has been extremely inept and in all honesty, the defense kept this from being a 30+ point margin.
The defense has had 2 stops. They haven’t done anything.
Exactly…and the offense did even less…which explains the 20 point loss. It was pathetic all around.
Yawn.
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Guess we turned a page to Newer Comments.
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Will be turning page to NHL season soon.
6 drives of over 50 yards for the Ravens.
Post game: “Obviously, this is all part of a master plan with the singular focus of bringing a championship back to Pittsburgh.”
A total gutless performance from the Steelers tonight.
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Before the game everyone talks about the previous dozen Stillers-Ravens games being decided by 3 or less points. That this game wouldn’t be any different. That the rivalry is still the same.
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This rivalry isn’t the same.
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The Steelers aren’t the same. We have been on a downward trend since losing the SB against GB.
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We have stuck with the same players and some of the same coaches for too long. We have become complacent and unable to adapt.
As a younger Pittsburgher who has been as much as a Bucco’s diehard as a Stiller’s diehard, it is devastating to see.
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I can’t predict anything after just two Steelers game.
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Though after the last two Steeler’s seasons and their first two games…I’m very concerned.
“Obviously, I would like to have seen more checkdowns, dumpoffs, swing passes, and safety valves from the offense. Obviously. And, obviously.”
What is there left to say about this game?
Lol
At draft time, I said the Steelers blew it. Shazier wouldn’t be a factor, the secondary needed help.
I want to take that back …………. the entire D needs help.
And the O.
And the coaches.
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I thought the penalties always reflected the coaches. Nah. Obviously.
We both meant 5 -11, right?
I think this game may turn out to be the beginning of the end for Colbert/Tomlin. It’s pretty clear now that this is going to be year 3 of non-playoff football, and for the Steelers, that’s unacceptable.
We needed the offense to step it up this year to mask this young D, and it isn’t happening.
Me thinks Haley needs to go…NOW
2009: Zero (1-7)
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2010: Thaddeus Gibson (4), Chris Scott (5), Crezdon Butler (5)
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2011: Curtis Brown (3), Chris Carter (5), Keith Williams (6), Baron Batch (7)
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2012: Mike Adams (2), Alameda Ta’amu (4), Chris Rainey (5)
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2013: Landry Jones (4), Terry Hawthorne (5)
The Steelers should never play the Ravens on Sept 11th. Both times blowouts. This Defense sucks and the Offensive tone was set with the first drive. 8 plus minutes and Justin Brown fumbles. PATHETIC.
11 and 5 DK…..Would you like a mulligan?
I said 9-7 and would like a mulligan.
Anyone know when was the last time the Steelers had an interception? Felt like ages.
Nice win by the Bucs tonight. Didn’t watch much of the Steelers pre-season game. Still can’t believe how much the refs call pre-season like flag football. Can’t wait for the real Steelers to start back playing real, regular season football.
Any idea when?
Cue Snoop….
Its one game. Everyone can have one bad game. But man, that was a really really really bad game.
You’re missing one more really.
It’s pretty simple:
Defense that doesn’t generate a pass rush
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Defense that doesn’t turn the ball over
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Defense that takes too many stupid penalties
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Offense that can’t finish in the red zone
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Many, many more losses in 2014
And well, since when did Kevin Colbert turn into Daniel Snyder?
Those contracts to Mike Mitchell and Cortez Allen remind me of the ones given to Derek “Operation Shutdown” Bell by the Pirates
Overpaid and underdelivered.
Ok–Tomlin apologists–this team STINKS and it is the team that he and Colbert have put together.
Promote Munchak tomorrow. Shazier is absolutely awful.
Shazier lead the team in tackles. What are you on?
Can’t cover a tight end to save himself and I question leading the team in tackles. He is awful.
lol Shazier just played his second NFL game ever and is playing better than most of the vets out there. Shazier is going to be a player in this D, just not this year…too many holes. D line is too bad and corners are too bad.
Not better than Mosely and it is his first year. His coverage is awful.
Dude it’s his 2nd game, put down the crack pipe
I don’t care how many games he has played. Did you watch Larry Foote the other night? No reason to start this kid now. His tackling consists of attempting to throw people to the ground or pushing them out of bounds. He is constantly out of position on the 3-4 .
Can we fire LeBeau and Haley now?
Defense soft offense inept coaching horrible. Should we keep going?
Art Rooney at some point has to question the management of Colbert and Tomlins ability to put a roster together. Another year of up and down games. Tomlin signed through 2016 I think. Will the Steelers eat 12 million of Tomlins contract? I doubt it.
How about Rooney Jr picking of Haley?
186 last week for the browns 156 for the ravens. over 330 yards in the first 2 games for the defense.
If you can’t stop either the run or the pass, you have games like tonight.
How about his own hand picking of Haley?
Wonder if Munchak can play right tackle.
I miss the Steelers defense of years gone by that would terrorize the QB. This would create a serious effect on the opposing passing game. End result would be a hurried QB and an INT
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Lebeau either does not have capable players OR the league has adapted to him.
There is no one left on the Steelers defense that anyone has to account for. The old guys are too old and ineffective, and the younger ones simply aren’t very good. Jarvis Jones is Huey Richardson with better hair. Time to move on.
Ben’s gotta start stepping up against better teams or we’re going nowhere.
He wants the freedom of no huddle then he needs to shoulder the criticisms of play calling.
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When things go right, not all Ben. And when things go wrong, not all Haley.
What an awful performance. Defense sucks. Play calling sucks. Down 3 scores with 8 to play and you are calling pop passes screens and check downs.
I dont know if it is no talent poor coaching or both but this is ugly. Two 8-8 seasons will be followed up with another stinker.
But hey Tomlin is a great coach. He won a super bowl with Bill Cowhers team. Yaya Cowher missed the playoffs the year before with the same guys. But he had completely checked out.
Blow it all up. Start over.
Defense is the problem. It has been the last 2 years. The issue is Dick Lebeau: he runs a 3-4 defense, which as everyone knows inherently complex. The last 3 years, we’ve seen a speed revolution in offense (See Pats, Eagles, etc.). Time to go 4-3, an inherently simpler scheme.
With faster Offenses mean less time to plan on D in between huddles, which means a simpler scheme is necessary. I don’t think Lebeau, the 80 year old guy, is the man to lead the defensive revolution. He’s gotten his pick of the draft for how long now? Transition to simple!!!