great win, talk to ya guys later

[Oviedo]

What? No Mike Tomlin sucks comments? Anyone hear Tony Romo after the game said Tomlin's prep was impressive.

Pappy

They cant. The hate is too great

[fordfixer]

They cant. The hate is too great

I have to admit I have supported Mike mostly ( he can’t win a challenge to save his life) but after last weeks lost to the Raiders I would of traded him for a box of rocks.

[steelz09]

Thank God... Good team win. Outside of being a must win, it's good to finally beat Brady and the Pats from a confidence standpoint.

Tomlin still sucks at challenges. For God's sake, have someone else relay info down to him on whether to challenge or not. At this point, he should just throw the flag but not actually make the decision.

Ben played well but we have to stop or reduce the turnovers.

Defense played inspired. They needed it. Great play by Haden. Burns is officially a bust. I think it's more technique and mental than it is physical but regardless, he's done and that is a big miss by Tomlin and Colbert.

Boswell... Ughhh. I don't know what to say. He bought himself another week. Kickers with shaky confidence is bad news.

James Washington. Really happy to see him make some plays because I think he was losing his confidence which is really bad for a WR.

Samuels. Big time performance.

This game shouldn't have been this close. Very un-pats like to have this many penalties. We have to take advantage. The Boswell miss and Ben throwing that pick to JuJu. Can't have it. That is exactly how you lose games you SHOULD win. Thankfully, we were able to pull out the victory.

Is Bell tweeting or is he showing some class? How many times did we beat the Pats with Bell on the team? Oh yeah, zero.

Outside of that, no one was game breaker which is fine. It was a good team win.

[steelz09]

They cant. The hate is too great

I'll take the bait. I'll give credit where credit is due.
It was impressive but how about some consistency? Ryan Clark said it best... Will the real Steelers please stand up? Will it be a team that started the year poorly? The team that won 6 straight games? The team that lost to the Broncos and the Raiders (who are the worst team in the NFL) or the team the beat the Pats?

[Moonie]

Good win over a team that has our number. Huge confidence builder for Saints game. We have a chance at winning now at least.

[skyhawk]

True that. They got their hands full against NO.

If the offense could score more points, they would be favorites. It's been pretty inept the last 4 weeks.

[skyhawk]

What? No Mike Tomlin sucks comments? Anyone hear Tony Romo after the game said Tomlin's prep was impressive.

Pappy

Pappy,

I found myself agreeing with Romo the whole game! Can he coach? Steelers could use him!

[Steel Maniac]

The team decided to focus because it was a hated rival. We move on to next week.

[Sugar]

What? No Mike Tomlin sucks comments? Anyone hear Tony Romo after the game said Tomlin's prep was impressive.

Pappy

You mean the Mike Tomlin who yet again does not have a losing season?

[brothervad]

Yep Tomlin/Butler's prep was impressive.

But you also heard Romo say during that last drive about Brady's 34 yard throw. "They are going back in zone, STOP THAT!!!!"

Man, do old habits die hard.

Yeah I get yards for clock, but this is Brady. It doesn't typically work out that well.

brothervad

[brothervad]

On a positive note. We pull out the win in NO and the Chargers take care of business.


Steelers clinch, with one week to spare!!!!

(So hopeful. My guess is they at best will be a #3 seed but likely #4...may need that Bengal week as their pseudo bye for the guys that need to heal up).

brothervad

[Starlifter]

I hate criticizing the coaching when it's bad - but it's often been deserved.

I'm thrilled to say this game is an A for coaching. solid, creative and different game plan. We had the pats confused and off balance. We shut down Gronk. There's no other spin expect to say this was an extremely well coached game. And I'm happy to say so. I'd LOVE to be able to say it every week. Let's see what New Orleans brings - because we will need to be well coached next Sunday to win as well.

[Captain Lemming]

....................................

That was close, I was nervous til the end. Nice positive departing thread.

Perhaps having your last thread of the season be positive, is just the good mojo the team needs to win it all.

[Captain Lemming]

Nice win by the Steelers. Congrats.

Thanks tiproast. Class act as always.

[steelz09]

I still don't think Tomlin is a great coach overall and I still think Butler and Porter should be fired.

The coaching staff apologetics always say it's a knee jerk reaction when people critique the coaching staff after losses.

Yet, the apologetics jump to the board to post "Does Tomlin still suck?" sarcasm. Hypocritical much? Talk about knee jerk.

We beat the Pats for the first time in an eternity and the apologetics are really slobbing on his knob again. Very selective memory.

Great team win but a little perspective... It shouldn't have been close and the pats played very un-pats like with the ridiculous amount of penalties.

Sorry, but 1 really good win against our archenemy after 5 straight losses to them doesn't make up for all the other negatives I've seen over the past few years from this coaching staff.