Fire BA

[BradshawsHairdresser]

Called a good first drive, as usual, then sucked big time. I suppose we'll see another fluff piece about what a genius he is. He still believes he never makes the wrong call.

Not putting it all on him...Ben threw a dumb pick, Mewelde coughed up the ball going in, receivers dropped more than their share, not to mention all the penalties...but come on...time for Arians to "get on with his life's work," as Coach Noll used to say.

[Sugar]

Re: Fire BA

A lot of the Offense's issues seemed like execution more than playcalling tonight. I can't really fault Arians for much today.

[Eddie Spaghetti]

Re: Fire BA

was BA out there holding all night?

[BURGH86STEEL]

Re: Fire BA

Contrary to what appears to be popular belief, the coaches can't over come mistakes or poor play by the players on the field.

[WindyCitySteel]

Re: Fire BA

Tired of seeing DJ and Saunders take snaps instead of our young, dynamic WRs. We also have a running back who excelled running from a spread offense in college at Illinois, but we refuse to use him that way.

The players botched some things last night, but the plan still stinks.

[Slapstick]

Re: Fire BA

If Saunders continues to make great TD catches while our young WRs drop passes, I won't have a problem seeing him more...

[Oviedo]

Re: Fire BA

Contrary to what appears to be popular belief, the coaches can't over come mistakes or poor play by the players on the field.

Execution sucked last night. I put that on the players.

However, both our coordinators should retire after the season. We did not see great adjustments by LeBeau last night either. Thank goodness we played Tyler Palko and not Tom Brady.

[WindyCitySteel]

Re: Fire BA

If Saunders continues to make great TD catches while our young WRs drop passes, I won't have a problem seeing him more...

I need a bigger sample size than one.

[Slapstick]

Re: Fire BA

I need a bigger sample size than one.

If the young WRs keep dropping them, you will get a bigger sample size...

[feltdizz]

Re: Fire BA

Called a good first drive, as usual, then sucked big time. I suppose we'll see another fluff piece about what a genius he is. He still believes he never makes the wrong call.

Not putting it all on him...Ben threw a dumb pick, Mewelde coughed up the ball going in, receivers dropped more than their share, not to mention all the penalties...but come on...time for Arians to "get on with his life's work," as Coach Noll used to say.

that's a long list....

just sayin'

[fezziwig]

Re: Fire BA

Tired of seeing DJ and Saunders take snaps instead of our young, dynamic WRs. We also have a running back who excelled running from a spread offense in college at Illinois, but we refuse to use him that way.

The players botched some things last night, but the plan still stinks.

Arian is stupid and you can't fix stupid.


I know he isn't the one with the drops or the holds but, as a coach he has got to be one of the worse or have some pretty sad stats.

[feltdizz]

Re: Fire BA

Tired of seeing DJ and Saunders take snaps instead of our young, dynamic WRs. We also have a running back who excelled running from a spread offense in college at Illinois, but we refuse to use him that way.

The players botched some things last night, but the plan still stinks.

Arian is stupid and you can't fix stupid.


I know he isn't the one with the drops or the holds but, as a coach he has got to be one of the worse or have some pretty sad stats.

how can people talk about drops, holds, bad passes, bad protection and blame the OC?

I could see if the players were on point and the play calling sucked but these guys were dropping good passes and we fumbled on the 2.

blame the players and move on to the next game...

[BradshawsHairdresser]

Re: Fire BA

Tired of seeing DJ and Saunders take snaps instead of our young, dynamic WRs. We also have a running back who excelled running from a spread offense in college at Illinois, but we refuse to use him that way.

The players botched some things last night, but the plan still stinks.

Arian is stupid and you can't fix stupid.


I know he isn't the one with the drops or the holds but, as a coach he has got to be one of the worse or have some pretty sad stats.

how can people talk about drops, holds, bad passes, bad protection and blame the OC?

I could see if the players were on point and the play calling sucked but these guys were dropping good passes and we fumbled on the 2.

blame the players and move on to the next game...

How can you look at all those series, especially in the second half, and absolve BA of blame? Pathetic play-calling. Regardless of the miscues by the players. My 13-year old son could do a better job of calling plays.

All night long, Al and Chris were gushing about how great the KC defense played. The KC defense is nothing special at all this season. They looked so good, in part, because so much of the time, they knew what was coming.

But hey, be happy, because our "genius" OC is planning to come back next year.

[feltdizz]

Re: Fire BA

Tired of seeing DJ and Saunders take snaps instead of our young, dynamic WRs. We also have a running back who excelled running from a spread offense in college at Illinois, but we refuse to use him that way.

The players botched some things last night, but the plan still stinks.

Arian is stupid and you can't fix stupid.


I know he isn't the one with the drops or the holds but, as a coach he has got to be one of the worse or have some pretty sad stats.

how can people talk about drops, holds, bad passes, bad protection and blame the OC?

I could see if the players were on point and the play calling sucked but these guys were dropping good passes and we fumbled on the 2.

blame the players and move on to the next game...

How can you look at all those series, especially in the second half, and absolve BA of blame? Pathetic play-calling. Regardless of the miscues by the players. My 13-year old son could do a better job of calling plays.

All night long, Al and Chris were gushing about how great the KC defense played. The KC defense is nothing special at all this season. They looked so good, in part, because so much of the time, they knew what was coming.

But hey, be happy, because our "genius" OC is planning to come back next year.

I didn't say BA had a great game but it's hard to blame him when our players make so many mistakes.

I doubt your son is a better play caller but if he is you should be a rich man in a few years.

KC looked good because our players made horrible mistakes and looked slow and aloof half the game.

[WindyCitySteel]

Re: Fire BA

Here are BA's offensive rankings as OC in Pittsburgh. Yards per game first, PPG second, Ben's red zone QB rating in parentheses. Even with this year's low red zone rating, he's got 12 TD and 2 INT.

Maybe we don't need to run the ball so much down there.

2011: 10th, 19th (79.7)
2010: 14th, 12th (96.5)
2009: 7th, 12rh (82.1)
2008: 22nd, 20th (95.0)
2007: 17th, 9th (99.3)