Quote Originally Posted by Captain Lemming View Post
How do you adjust to players who are not that good?
You wonder why W Gay plays with a huge cushion? He ain't Rod Woodson and would get toasted routinely if he played tight all the time.
DL adjusts to his talent ALL THE TIME.
Troy and Lake looked like they played a different position at strong safety.

You guys want to pretend we have talent we don't have.
You can ADJUST all day long and it won't fix old and poor draft picks.

If the tomatoes are rotten you are a moron to blame the proven recipe for a bad batch of ketchup.
Blame the guy who stocks the fridge with produce.
I would agree to an extent. But, even in Ike's hay day he was playing off the ball alot. It was that bend but don't break, keep the ball in front of you mentality. LeBeau's D's have always been about slowing up the D, hoping to come up with a big sack...or the D making a mistake. It limited big plays.

With that said, your comments on talent are warranted. The Steelers have almost no secondary talent. The front 7 needs a NT and an ILB. The D is bad. It's certainly not all on LeBeau. With that said, if the Steelers go status quo, hoping to grab a couple rookies who will rarely play in order to change this D next season they have another thing coming. They need to sign Worilds first. Then they need to make a grab at a middle tier FA or two at the least.