Going into the season I thought the offense would be less, but still potent. I thought the defense would still be bad. I thought we’d have another crappy sept due to tomlin’s habit of starting slow in combination with the quality of our opponents, and I thought we’d finish the season strong. I was comfortable with 10-6 but thought 11-5 or even 12-4 was possible.
Just goes to show how much predictions are worth.
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September was a manifestation of Ben being injured and put on IR not some devious strategy of Tomlin's. The storyline to this season is the injuries to key players, especially Ben. Unfortunately we didn't have a Teddy Bridgewater sitting in the wings. I still think Rudolph can become a solid QB but he has had little to no supporting cast this season and I think Fichtner's play calling has been terrible.
Talent vs coaching: [url]www.planetsteelers.com/forums/showthread.php/48851-Poll-Question-for-Everyone/page14[/url]
Steelers vs. Other Teams with good QBs: ... /47985-Steelers-most-successful-failure/page5
Tomlin playoff record vs. expectations (Cowher pg24): ... /48742-Rooney-Brown-meeting/page22
Tomlin's Las year: ... 49599-Just-sayin?p=778284#post778284
Maniac Talent>Coaching: ...49632-Trades?p=779158#post779158
I predict we'll finish at .500 or above ... which might be quite an accomplishment the way our players keep dropping off due to injury
i'm not ignoring the injuries - but we also had a healthy ben against the patriots and half of the seahawks. that alone was 6 pretty sad quarters of offense. We'll never know of course, but I thought WITH a healthy Ben we'd finish sept 1-3. I based that prediction on the fact we lost AB, JuJu was learning a new role, we had no idea who would step up behind him and oh yeah - as usual, Tomlin let Ben sit out every pre-game absent the 12 whole snaps he took in the 3rd game. I thought any vision of him having a rhythm with our receivers out of the gate was absurd.
but just my musings. your mileage may vary.....
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Talent vs coaching: [url]www.planetsteelers.com/forums/showthread.php/48851-Poll-Question-for-Everyone/page14[/url]
Steelers vs. Other Teams with good QBs: ... /47985-Steelers-most-successful-failure/page5
Tomlin playoff record vs. expectations (Cowher pg24): ... /48742-Rooney-Brown-meeting/page22
Tomlin's Las year: ... 49599-Just-sayin?p=778284#post778284
Maniac Talent>Coaching: ...49632-Trades?p=779158#post779158
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