What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

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  • RuthlessBurgher
    Legend
    • May 2008
    • 33208

    #16
    Re: What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

    Originally posted by Mister Pittsburgh
    I agree with some people saying it is partially on the offense. The question is what is wrong with our offense? Once we get a small lead (which a 2TD in this league is a small lead) we go to a run first, throw deep offense.

    The only games we have run the offense appropriate for our talents on offense were the first half and part of the second half vs. New England, and the second half vs. Baltimore.

    Also, Mendenhall flat out sucks and was a poor first round pick in my opinion. I hope they aren't stupid enough to EVER draft a RB in the first round again.
    Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis were 1st round picks (Bettis by the Rams, but still). Would you not want Franco and the Bus? Mendenhall may not be those guys, but he is certainly better than guys like Tim Worley, Walter Abercrombie, and Greg Hawthorne.
    Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

    Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

    We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

    We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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    • skyhawk
      Hall of Famer
      • Dec 2008
      • 3732

      #17
      Re: What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

      Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
      Originally posted by Mister Pittsburgh
      I agree with some people saying it is partially on the offense. The question is what is wrong with our offense? Once we get a small lead (which a 2TD in this league is a small lead) we go to a run first, throw deep offense.

      The only games we have run the offense appropriate for our talents on offense were the first half and part of the second half vs. New England, and the second half vs. Baltimore.

      Also, Mendenhall flat out sucks and was a poor first round pick in my opinion. I hope they aren't stupid enough to EVER draft a RB in the first round again.
      Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis were 1st round picks (Bettis by the Rams, but still). Would you not want Franco and the Bus? Mendenhall may not be those guys, but he is certainly better than guys like Tim Worley, Walter Abercrombie, and Greg Hawthorne.
      You forgot to add in Rich Erenberg and Earnest Jackson

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      • RuthlessBurgher
        Legend
        • May 2008
        • 33208

        #18
        Re: What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

        Originally posted by skyhawk
        Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
        Originally posted by Mister Pittsburgh
        I agree with some people saying it is partially on the offense. The question is what is wrong with our offense? Once we get a small lead (which a 2TD in this league is a small lead) we go to a run first, throw deep offense.

        The only games we have run the offense appropriate for our talents on offense were the first half and part of the second half vs. New England, and the second half vs. Baltimore.

        Also, Mendenhall flat out sucks and was a poor first round pick in my opinion. I hope they aren't stupid enough to EVER draft a RB in the first round again.
        Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis were 1st round picks (Bettis by the Rams, but still). Would you not want Franco and the Bus? Mendenhall may not be those guys, but he is certainly better than guys like Tim Worley, Walter Abercrombie, and Greg Hawthorne.
        You forgot to add in Rich Erenberg and Earnest Jackson
        That's because they were drafted late (in rounds that no longer exist in the current draft format). I was referencing 1st round running backs.
        Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

        Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

        We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

        We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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        • skyhawk
          Hall of Famer
          • Dec 2008
          • 3732

          #19
          Re: What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

          Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
          Originally posted by skyhawk
          Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
          Originally posted by Mister Pittsburgh
          I agree with some people saying it is partially on the offense. The question is what is wrong with our offense? Once we get a small lead (which a 2TD in this league is a small lead) we go to a run first, throw deep offense.

          The only games we have run the offense appropriate for our talents on offense were the first half and part of the second half vs. New England, and the second half vs. Baltimore.

          Also, Mendenhall flat out sucks and was a poor first round pick in my opinion. I hope they aren't stupid enough to EVER draft a RB in the first round again.
          Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis were 1st round picks (Bettis by the Rams, but still). Would you not want Franco and the Bus? Mendenhall may not be those guys, but he is certainly better than guys like Tim Worley, Walter Abercrombie, and Greg Hawthorne.
          You forgot to add in Rich Erenberg and Earnest Jackson
          That's because they were drafted late (in rounds that no longer exist in the current draft format). I was referencing 1st round running backs.
          Yes, I know.

          Damm, Hawthorne was drafted first?

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          • RuthlessBurgher
            Legend
            • May 2008
            • 33208

            #20
            Re: What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

            Originally posted by skyhawk
            Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
            Originally posted by skyhawk
            Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
            Originally posted by Mister Pittsburgh
            I agree with some people saying it is partially on the offense. The question is what is wrong with our offense? Once we get a small lead (which a 2TD in this league is a small lead) we go to a run first, throw deep offense.

            The only games we have run the offense appropriate for our talents on offense were the first half and part of the second half vs. New England, and the second half vs. Baltimore.

            Also, Mendenhall flat out sucks and was a poor first round pick in my opinion. I hope they aren't stupid enough to EVER draft a RB in the first round again.
            Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis were 1st round picks (Bettis by the Rams, but still). Would you not want Franco and the Bus? Mendenhall may not be those guys, but he is certainly better than guys like Tim Worley, Walter Abercrombie, and Greg Hawthorne.
            You forgot to add in Rich Erenberg and Earnest Jackson
            That's because they were drafted late (in rounds that no longer exist in the current draft format). I was referencing 1st round running backs.
            Yes, I know.

            Damm, Hawthorne was drafted first?
            Yeah, 28th overall in 1979. We did better in the 6th round of that draft, getting Dwayne Woodruff and Matt Bahr. Our 5th round pick that year, Dwaine Board, also had a solid NFL career (albeit with the Niners).
            Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

            Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

            We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

            We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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            • Mister Pittsburgh
              Hall of Famer
              • Jul 2008
              • 3674

              #21
              Re: What's wrong with our 4th quarter defense?

              I thiNk it is more about the value of the pick. Willie Parker looked great behind Hartings Faneca Starks etc. Just as the Bus did. More about who is blocking then the Rb.
              @_Hellgrammite

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