Unlikely heroes week 6

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

How does Buffalo throw for almost 350 yards.. in the first half?

Maybe Edmunds is the reason?

Don't want to say that in general Edmunds is the difference between 350 yards in the first half and shutting down a high powered O but let's look at what happened against Buffalo.

Third play of the game, 3rd and 10 from the 2. Safety takes a bad angle allowing the offense to hook up on a deep bomb, play goes for 98 yards and turns the tide. Now imagine a S who does not take such a bad angle and is running with the receiver. Chances are that the route gets altered a bit, or contested, and either throw is not made or falls incomplete, and we barely notice because long passes like that usually fall harmlessly to the ground.

Not in any way saying that maybe the Steelers make a game of it, but a play like that in a loud stadium, sometimes you never get back off the mat after that. Domino effect from there. Team probably still gets beaten handily but not with numbers quite so bad, and the difference could have been that one early play in which Edmunds was not there.

[NorthCoast]

Don't want to say that in general Edmunds is the difference between 350 yards in the first half and shutting down a high powered O but let's look at what happened against Buffalo.

Third play of the game, 3rd and 10 from the 2. Safety takes a bad angle allowing the offense to hook up on a deep bomb, play goes for 98 yards and turns the tide. Now imagine a S who does not take such a bad angle and is running with the receiver. Chances are that the route gets altered a bit, or contested, and either throw is not made or falls incomplete, and we barely notice because long passes like that usually fall harmlessly to the ground.

Not in any way saying that maybe the Steelers make a game of it, but a play like that in a loud stadium, sometimes you never get back off the mat after that. Domino effect from there. Team probably still gets beaten handily but not with numbers quite so bad, and the difference could have been that one early play in which Edmunds was not there.

Hmm. Fitz was toe to toe with the receiver on a long bomb and it was still completed. BUF/Allen were just on a different level than the Steelers.

[WindyCitySteel]

Combination of a response to getting humiliated vs. playing a fading, immobile QB who can't throw downfield anymore. The Bucs' offense stinks this year. I wouldn't be surprised if they missed the playoffs or snuck in as a 7th seed.

[feltdizz]

Hmm. Fitz was toe to toe with the receiver on a long bomb and it was still completed. BUF/Allen were just on a different level than the Steelers.

I mean.. that play was just insane. One handed 50 yard grab and then tipped it away from Minkah when it looked like he had the turnover.

but the first play and all the wde open WR’s all afternoon made it obvious our DB’s were either outmatched or simply out of sync. I think it was the latter.

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

Hmm. Fitz was toe to toe with the receiver on a long bomb and it was still completed. BUF/Allen were just on a different level than the Steelers.

Agree, but the TD against Minkah required a great play by the receiver to rip the ball away from an all-pro DB on a play that could have easily gone the other way. The 98 yard TD, on the third play of the game, on a third down, against double coverage, happened in part because one of the two defenders took himself out of the play. The Steelers were easily outmatched and never in pposition to make it a game, but the onslaught started early, and maybe did not have to start that early.