Miscellaneous Positives

[pick6]

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Wasn't turnovers the early success of the Buffalo Bills this season ? I kind of thought one team ( not really that good ) was winning a lot at the start due to their getting the turnovers ?

If I remember all that correctly, just goes to show what turnovers can do for a team.

I think our lack of turnovers are a result of Woodley starting out slow this season, then getting hurt plus, Harrison starting out slow from injury then, getting another injury. Without these guys shaking up the quarterbacks, the quarterbacks are having more time to throw more accurate and hanging on to the ball.

Just my novice two cents.

Hadn't thought of this, seems very plausible, thanks.

[ter1230_4]

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I think the Steelers COULD be a championship team, but they need to start getting turnovers in the playoffs for that to happen. What's strange is that it was almost like someone turned a switch off after the Sanchez fumble was returned for a TD in the AFCCG last year, and the Steelers stopped getting turnovers. And it's not like they haven't had chances to get them, for some reason the ball just stopped bouncing their way. How different might last year's Super Bowl have gone had the Steelers been able to recover the GB punt returners fumble on the first punt of the game? And how different might the Houston game have been if the Steelers had managed to fall on the ball when the Texans fumbled the opening kickoff? For some reason the turnover mojo has simply vanished for the Steelers. But if they are minus 2 or more in any playoff game, their season will end.

[Wilkinsburg]

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For real...to be this bad on Turnovers and still have this record is a testament to this team. Imagine if they were their normal +15...the Steelers would be 14-1 and the toast of the NFL.

[SteelAbility]

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The Steelers are -11 in two games the Ravens I and San Francisco (2 of the 4 losses) and in the other 13 games they are -1, so basically break even. That's why their record is as good as it is and their turnover ratio is bad. Statistically the -7 and the -4 are outside the standard deviation, so they make the ratio look bad over all, but in fact they weren't thast bad.

Pappy

That's a good point. However, the counterpoint here is that the Steelers had to start out 0-2 due to severe outliers and they are still in position to steal the #1 seed going into week 17.

[ter1230_4]

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Trailing against the Browns at the half, it's now been more than 10 quarters since the last Steelers takeaway. 6 of those quarters were against the Rams and the Browns. That is worse than pathetic.