I Put This Loss on....

[Slapstick]

Is it just me or do others feel this way. Once I seen Brown fumble the ball, I knew we were going to lose the game. That is how it is between the Steelers and the Ravens. If we had scored twice up on them then I feel we would have won the game. Certain plays, incidents seem to define how things will go when it's Steelers/Ravens game.

Yep. When he fumbled on the 12, I told my wife that we were in for a long night...

[squidkid]

We lost this game on several fronts. But, the most disappointing was that they pushed us around up front.

we quit being a physical football team about 7 years ago

[steelsnis]

I don't know, but I just heard a stat that the Steelers had zero QB hits last night. They did not even touch Joe Flacco.

Haha Flacco took a hit to the jaw when he tried to QB sneak it at the goal line. Timmons got him pretty good right in the mouth.

[K Train]

Haha Flacco took a hit to the jaw when he tried to QB sneak it at the goal line. Timmons got him pretty good right in the mouth.

Could have laid into him a little harder

They were flagging everything anyway

[SidSmythe]

I have a horrible memory, but I honestly can't remember a Steelers defense that was as inapt as this one. It's sickening to watch.

We're you around during the Tim Lewis years??
3rd and 15?? No Problem

[Jigawatts]

Haha Flacco took a hit to the jaw when he tried to QB sneak it at the goal line. Timmons got him pretty good right in the mouth.

At that point in the game I was listening to the radio. Wasn't that off a false start?

[Jigawatts]

3rd and 15?? No Problem

That's pretty much now.

[K Train]

At that point in the game I was listening to the radio. Wasn't that off a false start?

QB sneak, he tried lunging over the line and timmons came back in for that play after being injured 2 plays before...poppedhim pretty good

[K Train]

That's pretty much now.

I actually think they tend to play well on 3rd and long, its them getting 2nd and 3rd and shorts that are killing them

[fordfixer]

This is a good point, its tough to be optimistic after that but they arent that bad

They were last night.

[hawaiiansteel]

Ben Roethlisberger has to elevate his play

September, 12, 2014
By Scott Brown | ESPN.com



Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh offense were out of sync against the Ravens.

BALTIMORE -- The Pittsburgh Steelers, in spite of themselves, hung around on a sticky Thursday night at M&T Bank Stadium.

They trailed the Baltimore Ravens by just a touchdown, and the offense was on the move near the end of the first half when Ben Roethlisberger threw a pass that sailed over the head of 6-foot-5 tight end Heath Miller.

The Steelers punted instead of getting a fresh set of downs inside the Ravens’ 20-yard line.

And that errant pass defined their dismal night as much as the three turnovers they committed and the nine penalties that also had coach Mike Tomlin fuming during a terse postgame news conference.

The Ravens beat the Steelers 26-6 at M&T Bank Stadium. What should be most troubling to Tomlin, who is 17-17 in his past 34 games, is that Pittsburgh has been outscored 50-9 in its past six quarters.

True, the defense may actually be worse at stopping the run than it was last season, which was considered an outlier. But the offense was expected to carry the defense until the young players got more experience and the new players got a grasp of the system.

Roethlisberger, after looking shaky in the second half of the Steelers' 30-27 win over the Browns, was pedestrian in his second start.

The 11th-year veteran completed 22 of 37 passes for 217 yards against the Ravens. He missed three open receivers when the outcome still hung in the balance.

Roethlisberger didn’t lose the game, but he didn’t come close to conjuring up some of the magic that he has before in Baltimore.

Four years ago, Roethlisberger played through a broken nose and late in the game he held off Terrell Suggs long enough to throw away a pass. The next play he threw for the game-winning touchdown. Two years before that, Roethlisberger led the Steelers on a 12-play, 92-yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter to beat the Ravens.

Those games seem like they are from a bygone era.

And maybe they are with all of the turnover of personnel that has taken place since the Steelers played in three Super Bowls and won two of them from 2005-10.

Roethlisberger though is the one player who holds the Steelers together and gives them hope, and his wide receivers could have given him a little more help Thursday night.

Maybe Justin Brown was supposed to stop in the middle of the field on a third-down pass that Roethlisberger threw behind him in the second quarter. Maybe Markus Wheaton and even Pro Bowler Antonio Brown could have done a better job fighting for balls that Roethlisberger gave them a chance to catch.

But the reality is that Roethlisberger has to raise the level of play of everyone around him, not the other way around.

And he has to start with himself if the Steelers are to have any chance of returning to the playoffs after consecutive 8-8 seasons.

[URL]http://espn.go.com/blog/afcnorth/post/_/id/80784/steelers-big-ben-has-to-elevate-his-play[/URL]

[NJ-STEELER]

Maybe Justin Brown was supposed to stop in the middle of the field on a third-down pass that Roethlisberger threw behind him in the second quarter.

thats what it looked like to me. that ball was way behind him.

looked like ben expected a hitch, a staple in this offense

[NJ-STEELER]

the time of a casey type NT is gone. too many sub packages with all the passing in todays game to warrant a high pick for a 2 down line man.


the top two 3-4 defenses last year (points allowed) were new orleans and SF

saints NT is broderick bunckly - former 1st round bust on his 3rd team
SF is glenn dorsey - another former 1st rd bust who is taking off the field on passing downs. his back up (who they like) is a UDCFA


maybe the defensive coach should adjust to the talent he has on the DL.

[pittpete]

maybe the defensive coach should adjust to the talent he has on the DL.

Bite your tounge, this is total heresy
When you have a HOF coach you force your players to adapt to the system.
You absolutely never use your players strengths as an asset.
Even if it takes 3 or 4 years to have them adapt, you need to force them by any means.
This is the word of St. LeBeau.....

[SidSmythe]

thats what it looked like to me. that ball was way behind him.

looked like ben expected a hitch, a staple in this offense

Ben missed. Brown was right by working his way into the open field away from the coverage. On a night we needed big plays Brown was moving into open field and would have had lots of yardage after the catch.
Ben simply thought "get the first down" and missed it.