#1 Pass Defense was a huge mirage

[NJ-STEELER]

Re: #1 Pass Defense was a huge mirage

the true #1 defense is playing today. the difference in the way the secondaries play the ball is night and day

[steelz09]

Re: #1 Pass Defense was a huge mirage

the true #1 defense is playing today. the difference in the way the secondaries play the ball is night and day

[DrCalculus]

Re: #1 Pass Defense was a huge mirage

When the Steelers played Flacco, Smith and Schaub they are called bad QBs but you elevate your opinion of them when they play other teams. I still don't think the Steelers defensive ranking is HUGE mirage. I am not convinced by this. Your evaluation of QBs as top caliber, in various circumstances, is somewhat arbitrary and arguable.

In what way did I ever say that Schaub, Smith, and Flacco were bad when I listed them among the Steelers opponents. I just didn't consider them "elite". That doesn't equate to bad. Go back and read my original post:

"ONE game vs an Elite QB (Brady), THREE against decent QBS (Flacco in Baltimore, Schaub, & Smith), and 12 games against scrubs, back-ups, wash-ups, and rookies."

= 4 games against good QBs, and 12 games against crappy QBs

(OK, so I didn't call them "very good" -- but I definitely did not say they were "bad"...doesn't decent mean good? Merriam-Webster defines decent variously as: appropriate, fairly good --- as in "a decent starting QB, someone who actually is worthy of the job"...as opposed to, say, Tyler Palko or Curtis Painter)

And I used similar language to describe Flacco, Smith, and Schaub in listing the opposing QBs for Cleveland, Baltimore, Houston, NYJ, & St Louis:

"They faced Ben (2), Flacco (2), Smith, Schaub, Bradford -- 7 games against what I would consider high-level QBs."

"6 maybe 7 games against very good QBs."

"That's 11 games against good QB play."


You're splitting hairs in my choice of adjectives. I clearly indicated Brady as elite, but said that Schaub, Smith, and Flacco counted among the good QBs that the Steelers faced. I mentioned that their OTHER 12 opponents were " scrubs, back-ups, wash-ups, and rookies". I similarly listed those three guys among the good QBs other teams with top pass defense rankings played against. How is that arbitrary? It is entirely consistent.

Read what I wrote, not what you think you remember I wrote.