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Spillane is a fine replacement when they’re playing other teams. They will absolutely miss Bush’s speed and range against the fastest offense they’ll face all season by far. Their front 7 has now lost 2 of their top 3 members. Again, how is that not a huge blow when matching up against the best offense in the NFL? |
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12-05-2020, 06:28 PM | #1187 | |
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If they don’t get the bye, I believe they lose their first playoff game too.
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12-05-2020, 06:51 PM | #1188 |
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I hate the idea of Pitt losing their first game and not getting the chance to absolutely rape them in the AFCCG. Just another on the hit list that need to get got!
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12-05-2020, 07:13 PM | #1189 | |
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These are the QBs they've faced: Daniel Jones Jeff Driskel Watson Wentz Mayfield Tannehill Jackson Garrett Gilbert Burrow Jake Luton RG3 They've faced about five QBs who can complete a pass. Three are on terrible teams and one turned it over about four times. The fifth is Tannehill, who pretty much defines average. It would actually be kind of pitiful if they had lost more than a couple games. Even their fans acknowledge that they've been more lucky than good. They all say that they don't have the look of a SB team. |
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12-05-2020, 07:30 PM | #1190 |
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For me this is much more about their offense and their struggles for long stretches in pretty much every game, against some of the worst defenses in the league, than their defense. Which hasn't been championship-caliber dominant either. They gave up nearly 30 points to a WR-less PHI, for crissake.
But back to my point, their offense has struggled consistently to score with any kind of reasonable efficiency for a team that is 11-0, that everyone is talking about as if they should be going to the SB. Which is very reminiscent of another team we faced last season. The Patriots. Through the first 8-9 weeks of last season everyone thought NE had both a top 10 offense and a top 3 defense. Neither of which turned out to be true. They beat the teams they were supposed to beat, but struggled throughout the season to score on more than 50% of their possessions, and their TD to FG ratio hovered around 50% as well. And, after reviewing several of their games, I further noted that on drives starting from their own 40-yard line or worse, they punted more than 55% of the time, and kicked FGs at least 70% of the remaining scoring drives. in short, their offensive efficiency was a little better than the Vikings. Scoring on 4-5 drives and alternating between TDs and FGs just will not be good enough against a Chiefs team that regularly scores on 6-7 drives and posts TDs 60% of the time. The Steelers will be required to increase their efficiency by 25% or more and simultaneously get their defense to reduce the Chiefs' offensive efficiency by about the same amount, just to stay in the game. The odds of pulling that off are not very good.
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12-06-2020, 08:10 AM | #1191 |
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Clowney done for the season with knee surgery... I still take the Titans somewhat seriously because I have a respect level for what Henry and AJ Brown can do, but another blow nonetheless to an already suspect defense.
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12-06-2020, 01:25 PM | #1192 | |
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12-06-2020, 01:32 PM | #1193 |
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Any newfound respect for Cleveland?
Impressive showing today. |
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12-06-2020, 01:37 PM | #1194 |
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They play like that, the Steelers are going down for sure.
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12-06-2020, 03:36 PM | #1196 |
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They probably won't, as PIT will get a lot more pressure on Baker than TEN did today, but if they could, yeah, CLE would win that game. By a couple TDs.
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12-06-2020, 04:17 PM | #1197 | |
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12-07-2020, 12:39 PM | #1198 |
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Oh they’re cocky alright
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12-07-2020, 12:49 PM | #1199 |
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12-07-2020, 02:45 PM | #1200 |
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Lol.
I’m sure certain teams reference this when they come up against playing the Steelers. They think they’re hot shit and not vulnerable. Already talking like the Super Bowl is a given. It’s just one player and maybe this is an isolated thing, but if this truly the mindset of the Steelers lockeroom then they’re gonna get Baltimore’d, just like last year, when the playoffs start. They won’t even get a shot at the Chiefs. Chiefs will be in the AFC Title game, you can count on that. Just a matter of who they’ll be playing. I REALLY do hope it’s an undefeated Steelers team. Would love nothing more than to watch Andy ruin their perfect season. Besides, we owe Miami for last year anyway. They can consider it payback. |
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