Starkey: "This offense stinks"

[rockonsteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Fair enough!

This week is the week the offense comes around and our DB's are exposed and all week we can talk about them stinking tooo! LOL I predict it now! LOL

Well, I had some more venom for you, but since it seems like you're calling truce, I'll match it. Here's to hoping they get their sheite together this week on both sides of the ball.

Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go!!!

P.S. I gave you bonus points for your references to Malone, Abercrombie(that was my dude, I hated he never really reached his potential), Pollard, et al. I was gonna question your age, but you deaded that noise real quick....lol

See we can all get along....


Rockon

[Doogie36]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Ambercrombie and Pollard were great together and if we can cheer for that offense we sure as heck gotta love this offense a little more.

I'm 40 years old! Old enough to have seen the horrible 80's teams! In fact the late 70's teams spoiled me so much that it made the 80's so brutal but yet I still stood by them and I'll stand by them now too!!!

I'm waving the white flag! We will turn it around like we always do!

I really did like MARK MALONE! LOL

[ikestops85]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Well isnt that we have talked about all day long? STATS? and our scoring offense and how horrible? I'm still confused. Are we counting W's or not? I have no clue!!

We beat the horse!!!

I'm Doogie and I'm a STEELER Fan and always have been. I cheered for Mark Malone like he was the best next thing to Magnium PI! LOL I cheered for Walter Ambercrombie, Frank Pollard, Bubby Brister, and Mike Tomzack!!! I loved every season and I cheered every week!!! My Steelers can always win! That might make me sick in the head or blind but this team sure has given me many years of happiness. My Dad passed away an Eagle fan and having never seen a SUPERBOWL VICTORY! TO me that's sad and i know he'd roll around in his grave to see us bitching about our team. My best Friends a Bengal fan!! he's pissed about teh 11 million Mike Brown is holding or has to hold over Palmer!!! He has some valid complaints..............WE DONT!

We are Steeler fans and we have a damn good squad!!! We will lose a game or two but we have the talent to win and I stand by it and I cheer for them!!!!!

Bring on the TEXANS!!! Its time to show them the REAL PITTSBURGH STEELERS!! 2-1 and we have yet to play like ourselves.........dont see this as a bad thing at all and in fact im encouraged by it!!!!

If you cheered for Mark Malone like I did then you will like this team a lot more even in a sloppy WIN!

GOO STEELERS

Ah yes ... Bubby Brister as QB and Merril Hoge as the most dangerous weapon on the team. Talk about an offense that stinks. Those were the days.

[Doogie36]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

but who didnt cheer for Merrill in that Denver playoff game where he played LIGHTS OUT FOOTBALL??? On that day our offense wasnt all that bad!!!

2005 offense was HORRIBLE! it sure wasnt in those playoffs though!!! Ben tore apart the Bengals, Colts, and Broncos before struggling in the Bowl!

We cheer for this team and we know they can be better and will be better!! The sky is the limit and we only need to reach the sky in January and February!!! Right now we just need to save enough W's for the ticket to that tourney. We have 2!!!! We need 8 more!!!!!

[Sugar]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

2005 offense was HORRIBLE! it sure wasnt in those playoffs though!!! Ben tore apart the Bengals, Colts, and Broncos before struggling in the Bowl!

We cheer for this team and we know they can be better and will be better!! The sky is the limit and we only need to reach the sky in January and February!!! Right now we just need to save enough W's for the ticket to that tourney. We have 2!!!! We need 8 more!!!!!

I remember telling my friends that the Steelers were just playing bad football at the time and wouldn't make the playoffs playing that way. Something just seemed to click in the Chicago game though. The rest is history.

Some of the biggest disappointment came because they were so close the prior year, losing only the one game during the whole season. They were the best team in the league during the season burying both the Eagles and Pats in successive weeks. We saw how much any of that meant when the playoffs came.

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

sounds like Mendy is second-guessing Arians...


Mendenhall: We played to our weakness

By F. Dale Lolley, Staff writer [email="dlolley@observer-reporter.com"]dlolley@observer-reporter.com[/email]


PITTSBURGH - A year ago, Rashard Mendenhall was at the top of his game.

With quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sidelined for the first month of the season because of an NFL suspension, Mendenhall carried the Steelers to a 3-1 start.

This season, however, Mendenhall and the Steelers' running game are struggling to find a foothold.

Though the Steelers are off to a 2-1 start heading into a showdown Sunday at Houston (2-1), Mendenhall has yet to get untracked. In his 49 carries, Mendenhall has gained only 148 yards and scored one touchdown. His per-carry average is 3.0 yards.

The 148 yards is only five more than Mendenhall had in a game at Tampa Bay in Week 3 last year. Mendenhall led the NFL with 332 rushing yards through three games last season and finished the year with a career-high 1,272 yards and 13 touchdowns.

"It's frustrating, but that's part of it," Mendenhall said Wednesday. "Last year at this time, I was leading the league in rushing, but there were still 14 weeks to go. I don't get too much into it and try to control what I can control."

One of the things Mendenhall can't control is the plays that are called.

Throughout practices last week, the Steelers worked on a power-based rushing attack. Yet in the first half Sunday against Indianapolis, many of the runs called were long-developing stretch and counter plays. The result was Mendenhall having 10 carries for 10 yards at halftime against the undersized but speedy Colts defense.

"We had some matchups that we liked, with them having (six defenders) in the box," said Mendenhall, who added he wasn't sure why the game plan changed.

"We've got to play to our guys' strengths. We've got some big guys who can move you out of the way. That's a small, slanting-style of defense, so you try to run outside on the edge against them? We played to their strength and our weakness. That's a hard thing to do."

The Steelers changed things at halftime. Mendenhall had five carries for 25 yards on Pittsburgh's opening possession of the second half, and Pittsburgh ran for 57 yards in the final two quarters.

One thing Mendenhall isn't questioning are his decisions with the football. Though he appeared confused about where to run against the Colts, Mendenhall said he wasn't indecisive.

"As a running back, you take your best read and you live with that. It's something I've been doing and I feel good about it," Mendenhall said.

Head coach Mike Tomlin wants to see more from a rushing attack that's averaging just 85.7 yards per game.

"We better improve in that area, and improve in a hurry, because we desire to be balanced offensively, be a good offense and be able to win games in a lot of ways," Tomlin said.

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[rockonsteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Fuggin bump!! Wow!!



Rockon

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

1st half offensive stats:

0 points

7 first downs, 1-4 3rd down conversions, 125 total yards

5 rushing attempts for 28 yards against the NFL's second worst ranked rushing defense

this offense is truly offensive...

[rockonsteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Everything with this offense is a damn struggle!



Rockon

[Sonny]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Someone should bump the thread "It's scary how good Ben can be".

I know, I know, the line.

Throws like the overthrow to Brown are disgusting.

[Ghost]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

This is it. Great field position to start. Have to have the TD or the game is over. Lets see if the line can pull it together.

[rockonsteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

This is it. Great field position to start. Have to have the TD or the game is over. Lets see if the line can pull it together.

So much for that....this is quite embarrassing.

The title line for this thread still stands!! Evermore.

Rockon

[Ghost]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

99 yards and just over a minute. Still hoping they can pull out a TD.

[Ghost]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

Never mind. Simply horrendous. The line sucked, the play calling was terrible and Ben was bad as well. At least it was a total effort by all to suck in unision.

[rockonsteel]

Re: Starkey: "This offense stinks"

99 yards and just over a minute. Still hoping they can pull out a TD.

Really?


Rockon